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| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @Charles1dadThanks, Charles. I suspect that I’ll eventually sell the VAC, but I won’t decide until sometime after I receive it back. The XA25 is definitely a keeper, though, for the long term. It comes amazingly close to the VAC with respect to di... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Regarding Teajay's credibility as a reviewer, I can add a data point based on actual recent experience. I very recently purchased a Pass XA25 amplifier (from Mark at Reno Hi-Fi, who of course was completely wonderful to deal with), motivated in p... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve For both transformers and autoformers, softer on dips and louder on peaks, ***relative to the response that the particular speaker would provide if the amp were an ideal voltage source, meaning a voltage source having an output impedance of zero.*... | |
| What is the epic song of a group? Since we appear to be deviating from the criterion of "groups" that was stated in the OP, I’ll add the following to my previous response:"Both Sides Now" -- Judy Collins (written by Joni Mitchell, of course) (The original version, that was include... | |
| Recommendations Amp, DAC for Kef R900 @Uncola, if my theory is correct and the problem occurs in groups of 16 settings at various higher settings of the volume control, it would occur to a less severe degree at higher volume settings.More importantly, though, if my theory is correct I... | |
| What is the epic song of a group? The Doors - Light my Fire. +1. The full 7 minute version, of course, featuring the amazing keyboard work of the late Ray Manzarek.Regards,-- Al | |
| Recommendations Amp, DAC for Kef R900 Uncola In other news I did notice the right channel sound less loud than the left when I have volume set to 16 through 32 ... it’s like a 90% reduction in volume in the right channel. Are you sure the problem is evident at 16 through 32, rather th... | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment P.S. to my previous post: RV, I believe that your Dahlquist DQ20 speakers use first-order (6 db/octave) crossover slopes and are time coherent. I'm not certain of that, though.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment I agree with the responses from Jafant and Hifiman5. I’ve found that improvements in accuracy, especially with respect to resolution of fine detail, can make mediocre or poor recordings sound more enjoyable. As well as improving the reproduction o... | |
| MAC Autoformers? C1Ferrari 9-6-2018 Very cool thread ;-) +1. Great thread. And thanks to Ralph and Roger for providing their informative if somewhat different perspectives.Roger, regarding... The Futterman amplifiers have over 60 dB of feedback and a good reput... | |
| DEQX Hi Handymann, It sounds like you've probably already seen the lengthy "Is DEQX A Game-Changer" thread. I haven't used the streaming function or the Ethernet interface of my HDP-5, so I can't comment on those features. The speaker an... | |
| Talk but not walk? FWIW, my opinion regarding the explanations of alleged wire directionality that have been proffered by Wireworld and Audioquest in their marketing literature:When it is not readily possible to determine a quantitative threshold separating what may... | |
| Help with advice for high end speaker cables for my system! The very low impedance of your speakers in the treble region (descending to 1.2 ohms at 20 kHz) will likely cause them to react differently to a given speaker cable than the results most others may report for the same cable. And in particular that... | |
| Speaker Wire question Rocky1313, I think you'll find this thread to be of interest:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/small-cable-companies-making-preposterous-claimsRegards,-- Al | |
| Are there really a bad misfits in the hifijungle out there Heidrun 9-1-2018 Not easy that twoleftears.Look at the McIntosh C-52 Pre. That one has on balanced output impedance 200 Ohms.And if you match it with the Manley snapper monoblocks, that i think is a lovely mix. Then the Snappers have on the XLR 15... |