antigrunge2

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Townshend or MuRata Supertweeters? Thoughts?
I have been using Murata ES103As for 20 years and wouldn’t part with them for anything.  
Sound quality of Roon
@sns, more computer power means more digital artefacts and more noise. There is a school of thought that in digital less is more.   
Sound quality of Roon
It seems to me reading all of this that the computational power required for full Roon implementation is per se detrimental to good sound quality. Hence the need for separating the (noisy) core and the clean end point. Other than the associated co... 
Speaker Placement and Toe-In
As always: it depends. All other things equal a front baffle design upon toe-in does three things: it increases treble as treble is directionally radiating from the cone; it shifts the first reflection point further into the room which in turn aff... 
Best Stereo Upgrade Value
@vonhelmholtz  +1 your comment on power resonates with me😉  
Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?
Musician Phoenix? Must be a Chinese Gaia knockoff… This thread was supposedly about the InnuOS version  
Questionable Tweak
Excessive flatulence and nose protuberance both interfere with oncoming sound waves. Think about it!  
Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor?
His whole point was that music dependends on the acoustics of the venue which inter alia defines the tempo of individual movements and that could neither be captured nore rendered by recording. Quite the Anti Audiophile, him. He was deeply into Ze... 
Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor?
Best I know he left the decision to his wife and son, he himself called LPs ‘pancakes’ all his life  
Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor?
Yep, most are though live performances and he didn’t like them in his lifetime  
Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor?
…and then there is Celibidache. Few recordings but if you’ve heard him live you’ll remember  
Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor?
Knappertsbusch, Klemperer, Szell. All concert masters at heart and really understanding how orchestras get ‘in the groove’  
Footers- Break In? Such A Change.
‘Dumping the Entropy’? Definitely gobbledygook! I’d love to have a physical explanation for superseding the Law of Entropy…might be really handy for cleaning up my den!  
Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?
I have the reclocked, LPS fed Etherregen directly feeding my Innuos Zenith mk3. When I added the LHY Audio switch upstream of the Etherregen, there was a further significant improvement in dimensionality and impulse response. If you daisy chain 2 ... 
Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?
@lalitk Substantially in agreement with you. Ideally you‘d have an integrated Server/Dac with an integrated analogue attenuator and a very high quality clock. Given the output voltage of normal dacs, I don‘t believe there is a point for a pre un...