ahofer
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| Best audio tweak ever, especially for the over 60s There are over-the-counter products that use a gentle glycerin solution to thin earwax and let it run out. Mostly sold for swimmer's ear, but can be repurposed here so you don't have to use Q-tips and risk eardrum damage.There are also simple lav... | |
| What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One? This doesn't make sense. Just because there are examples of components built from high quality parts that are "inaccurate at best" certainly doesn't mean that all components built using high quality result in inaccurate performance. Indeed, the ... | |
| What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One? When you add up the differences in drive quality, analog output stage quality, digital output stage design you can start to understand that there are very large and audible differences between CD players, amplifiers, dacs, loudspeakers etc.The "la... | |
| Dac streamer I have one. IMO, the software/streaming capabilities are not fully ready for production. I have a few quality questions as well. My first one dies within 30 seconds of first use and the second one still has some pops and thunks when changing input... | |
| What Audiophiles Could Learn from Food Scientists btw, on Harmon - I think sometimes the things the average customer likes about a customer in a quick showroom demo may be different from what makes them happy night after night at home. Listener fatigue is a big thing IMO. | |
| Recommendations for upgrade I think Harbeths might be worth listening to just on the basis of a highly differentiated sound. I think the differentiation is quite positive, but YMMV. Suncoast Audio in Florida is a dealer, I think. | |
| What Audiophiles Could Learn from Food Scientists It seems like it is all or nothing in the battle between 'objectivists' and 'subjectivists". I admire the way most of the ASR types stick to falsifiable observations (a scientific habit), and I find the independent measurements useful. However, ... | |
| Cambridge Audio CD Player Has Died CA will accept returns of broken equipment with a credit against new. I recently traded in an Azur DAC for a tidy portion of the cost of the new Edge. | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? And you have to burn the cables in just right. Quantum right.https://www.thecableco.com/quantum-burning-technology-burn-in-machine.html | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble Even some speaker manufacturers over-emphasize the treble and fool the audience into thinking they are hearing extra air and detail -- but they are not; furthermore, when they get the speakers home, they find that they give them listening fatigu... | |
| List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid Speakers, DAC/streamer, amplifier, speaker cables, interconnects.The amp is very old (Adcom 5802)and you can by one on the used market for...well, usually a lot less than this - https://www.ebay.com/i/283365435016?chn=ps .Speakers dominate by a fa... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! To answer the OP question, "non-fatiguing" was a huge priority for me. Read on.But first, to respond to the inner thread on Harbeths-So what I see is a bunch of speaker design "no-nos" all of which coincidentally reduce the production cost that ... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! but please dont mistake these type of designs as accurate. For me a speaker should as much as possible reproduce what they are handed and this is not what speakers like Harbeths or Spendors for that matter actually accomplish. I agree that per... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? St. Vincent. First time with my month-old Harbeths. I'm surprised how different it sounds. She's doing more with the electronics than I thought. And whoever thinks the SHL5+ can't reproduce bass is wrong. | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble I noticed sizzly treble in at least two models I auditioned. One (Paradigm) seems to be tipped-up out of the box, per Stereophile measurements. The other I'm not sure about. The dealer's listening room had a live end (brick wall) at the speaker e... |