aquint
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| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? A lot of what’s been posted on this thread isn’t wrong (the ad hominem stuff is) and it’s kind of reassuring that many people are hearing the same thing - they’re just placing a different value on what they’ve experienced and, yes, listening condi... | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection I couldn’t agree more with @larryi - << I probably have 1,000 classical LPs. I almost never listen to them. I do have, and listen to classical CDs ripped to a streamer. I MUCH prefer listening to classical digitally— no awkward breaks in... | |
| What to do with a large collection How timely! I have an editorial in the February issue of TAS—the digital edition is already available—about selling my LP collection (1800 albums, 80% classical) to make room for the installation of bunk beds for my grandkids. There’s a West Coast... | |
| Are you on or off? What say you? I think that everyone that's posted here is "on," whether they admit it or not. In my opinion, being so doesn't necessarily mean you're still buying stuff, actively upgrading as you surely did at some point in your audiophile career. Being on mea... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? @kennyc I felt like I hit the jackpot when I purchased the Linn/DSM2 w Organik DAC upgrade. BAACH looked interesting, but the BAACH-SP was priced way out of my comfort zone. I wasn’t sure if I can buy then work the software separately, thanks for... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? @soix It is off-topic, but such an important issue that I’ll comment here and now. Maybe the subject can get its own thread at some point. It’s an important issue, I think, because some members of our audiophile tribe have gone a bit overboard ab... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? I agree with soix that the amplifier may be the reason for what the OP is hearing. It's not that there aren't great-sounding Class D amps out there—I just wrote up the TIDAL Intra, and Bruno Putzeys certainly knows what he's doing—but these produc... | |
| Bacch Dsp, True stereo? I'm not certain if it's appearing in the November or December issue of TAS, but Dr. Choueiri has graciously allowed us to publish a book chapter on spatial sound he wrote with the musician/filmmaker/performance artist Laurie Anderson. It provides ... | |
| Front or Back wall diffusers Definitely the front wall, in my opinion. I've posted a photo of the front of my room in the Virtual System area. I've had three pairs of GIK Gotham Quadratic Diffusers deployed in the middle of the room boundary behind the speakers for over a ye... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? I've used a couple of versions of Anthem's ARC over a decade or so, with many loudspeakers. On general principles, I turn it on only if the positive effect on smoothing in-room frequency response seems "worth it" and the better the resolution of y... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. IMO, the video's not especially entertaining. If this was a stand-up act, I'd probably use the time to go to the bar. But that's a matter of taste. In terms of the substance of the video, it's a mixture of inaccuracy, misinterpretation, straw dogs... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement I did look over four or five of Tim’s reviews and can say this: He’s a good audio writer. If he’s not now working regularly for a publication, online or print, it’s too bad for all of us. Though I’ve already acknowledged that a need for more comp... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement << The Borrenson may be a monster amp and you may well be right. But I’ve given up reading TAS reviews because they’re nothing but self-affirming grandstanding that provide absolutely no value to me whatsoever. I recently confronted another ... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up Actually, I wasn’t able to complete the head-to-head comparison of Baetis to 432 EVO that I’d hoped to. The Aeon has only a USB output; the Baetis has USB, AES/EBU, SPDIF, and HDMI. The USB interface is an upgrade, employing an SOtM card and in mi... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up Tough crowd. Even with a reviewer's discount it was a substantial outlay - not the sort of expenditure you'd make if you didn't really like the gear. Sheesh.... |