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| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? Yes, it's worth it if you are a film buff and have the space and separate walls from neighbors to make it worth your while. It's not really that hard. At a basic level, it just involves setup and tuning to get the sound right. The hardest part is... | |
| MQA Declares Bankruptcy At its most basic level MQA is software upscaling at the first "unfold" and additional hardware (if present) upscaling filter at the second "unfold". I think it’d be more dynamic if it was actually upscaling everything to a super high bit rate (li... | |
| Fee for home audition Move on. I understand the risk for both sellers and buyers, but anybody who charges ridiculous restocking fees should be avoided. 5% or 10% might not seem like much for small ticket items, but if you’re buying a $10K item, that is a lot of money ... | |
| Took the lithium ion battery plunge @carlsbad I was speaking to bypassing AC and going with DC battery power to the equipment. It's an easy way to test dirty vs. clean(er) power by avoiding AC noise, SMPS switching noise, RF noise, grounding loops, etc. It's just that the weak link... | |
| Took the lithium ion battery plunge Batteries are always cleaner sounding than stuff plugged into a wall. That said, when you’re listening to battery power you’re actually listening the power regulator on a battery. It’s the thing that convert the batteries native voltage to the fin... | |
| Inter Connects - What I know and don't know - You don’t always get what you pay for. I know $200 dollar cables from one brand that sound better than $600 cables from another. - MSRP doesn’t really mean anything in relationship to sound quality escpecially across different brands. - Once y... | |
| Interconnect advice needed what @audphile1 said. +1 Audience. | |
| What I wish I knew before starting my audiophile journey @liamowen Don't knock it unless you tried it. Clean power is real thing and does provide audible improvements across all levels of components. What might be considered crazy though is the cost of obtaining clean power. The conditioners, the cable... | |
| What I wish I knew before starting my audiophile journey An interesting observation I've made is that the older audiophiles tend to focus on things lower in the chain, like speakers and amps. The digital generation values and focuses on cleaning up the source and thinks that makes more of a difference ... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? I prefer Coaxial Speakers. Point source makes a lot of sense to me. They are also less visually obtrusive. High WAF factor. | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. I'm a speaker listener as I don't like being held captive by headphone wires and the weight of something hanging off my head and making my ears sweaty. I do use wireless RF headphones open back headphones for late night cinema but that's the exten... | |
| Did you ever buy too much bass? Bass is a strange creature. I was running a small 8" sub that only went down to 40hz, but wanted more bass, so I bought another 8" sub. At the listening position, the bass was softer like I was in a vacuum, but as I walked out towards the edge or... | |
| DAC recommendations I'm an airplay user as well, I think the ultimate DAC for that is the Chord Hugo M Scaler/ TT2 combination. The high res streaming claims by most all the streaming platforms is inconsequential in relations to the 16x upscaling of the M Scaler. It ... | |
| Why are so many people spending so much money to build “perfect” streaming system? To have access to a million vinyl collection without having actually having millions of vinyl. That smooth analog sound in streaming is difficult to achieve without dropping jewels. | |
| What is the most important cable in your system Between Dac and Pre. Generally speaking, I prioritize the source. Since you have both, try it both ways since you own both and hear for yourself. |