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| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps @phillyb everything you said is what I hear. And it was exactly like that when the popular Nuforce class-d amps appeared 20 years ago. Then you hear traditional amplification that has ‘realism’ and you notice the weakness. However there have rec... | |
| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps @mitch2 so what what did you go back to after your ncore adventure? I just look at reviewers reference equipment -which is an indication of what they truly like- and barely any of them use class-d on a daily basis. It never satisfies. Although ... | |
| New Fischer & Fischer Audio 670 Speakers : Made Out Of SLATE.. There are a few speaker manufacturers using concrete, steel, marble, granite and other exotic materials for the cabinets, to control resonances. But one thing they all these materials do is ring, at varying frequencies - depending on the material... | |
| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps That blog post by buckeyeamp is your typical ASR tripe. He whines that the GAN transistor shows little measurable improvement over mosfets used in most class d amps. So what? We are interested in how things sound. Like the OP I too am interest... | |
| New Fischer & Fischer Audio 670 Speakers : Made Out Of SLATE.. The SN70 look like great standmounts for the price. https://the-ear.net/review-hardware/fischer-and-fischer-sn70-hard-speakers/ | |
| EtherREGEN or LHY SW-6? Anyone compare the 2? Thoughts/opinions? I had the LHY SW-6 and it’s really good for the money. It brings a relaxed and calming effect to things. I do not recommend using the isolated port though, the normal ports seem more transparent. But I now have the new Matrix Audio SS-1 Pro switc... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... Pure silver signal cables are not bright. For example the most natural sounding IC's I ever heard were pure silver foil. But silver plated copper cables give an artificial sense of detail. On mid-fi systems this seems to work well and can be posi... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... The high end has been in a slow motion collapse as evidenced by the explosion of companies exclusively doing 50-100k entry level products. It has fooled people into thinking it’s a sign of health. There actually has been no explosion, it’s just c... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... Say what you want about Andrew Robinson, but at least he is willing to tell you when he doesn’t like a product, unlike 97% of the audiophile review industry. | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Interesting that you guys mention Cabledyne. I still have a full set of their copper ribbon power cables with the metal sleeving. They were very good and I think the only weakness was the Wattgate nickel/brass connectors, but they were such good v... | |
| Six DAC Comparison You really need to put a hundred hours on each DAC as well. Are they new units or 2nd hand? | |
| Shout out to Revival Audio Atalante 3 speakers @nonoise you still off the merry go round and have these? Apparently the genius behind this brand, Daniel Emonts, was chief designer at Focal and Dynaudio, but in particular he was responsible for the Dynaudio Heritage Special, one of my favorite... | |
| Anyone upgrade to the Merason Dac1 mkii? What are the RCA outputs like for Merason dacs? The DAC1 and Reuss has fully discrete balanced output, with 4 stages. But sometimes for the SE output a manufacturer will treat SE as an afterthought, and use cheap summing op-amps for the SE output.... | |
| Which External Linear PSU Upgrade for my Router? For routers, switches and NAS, I have found some LPS do not work so well, and can be worse than the included SMPS. I think its due to the fast high frequency nature of the network switches. But some of those LPS that did not work well with switch... | |
| Nordost QKORE I just upgraded my QKore ground wire from standard to premium for one of the connections, a BNC digital input on a Naim streamer. From first plug in, it seemed a subtle and just OK upgrade, like better bass. But after leaving it working 48 hours,... |