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| Is it the gear or the ears? Nice post! I'm reminded of the cosmically inspiring moments I've had listening to a classical music station that's barely coming in while driving through the woods in a noisy car. | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. I’m with @akg_ca and others here. There’s no correct answer for every situation. I use a lot of toe-in with my current room, which is played long ways using horn speakers. One issue I just experimented with addressing is opposite side reflections,... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? I haven't heard an extreme improvement from a cable change. But I'm convinced it can happen on some systems, and not necessarily only the finest systems, but just ones with interesting matchings of speakers and amps, or other components where cabl... | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? One thing I’ve been taught is that unless a room is very highly damped and/or the speakers are highly directional and very close to the listener, most of the sound power that reaches the listener’s ears is from room reflections. So I think that a ... | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS This thread got me thinking. Klipschorns were mentioned as sounding good at low volume. I would agree they can be captivating, although not a lot of bass. I think the loudness curve has something to do with it. But the speaker can have flat on-axi... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles @pfreix I’m a big believer in interaural crosstalk reduction. I’ve not heard BACCH4Mac, but I’ve heard other methods of reducing crosstalk that I found very compelling. BACCH4Mac seems to be the current state of the art when used in a well treat... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles One thing that I just became aware of is how a little impedance between the speakers and the amp can help tame peaky resonances in some speaker drivers, and reduce distortion as a result. Not sure how that ties in to cables, but I suspect it could... | |
| Magico - Wide vs. Narrow @tomic601 Cardboard is not a good speaker baffle material. Cardboard is very noisy in and of itself. Just putting my mouth near a piece of cardboard and humming lowly makes the cardboard vibrate like crazy, adding all kinds of resonances. Just ... | |
| Audience FrontRow USB - I’m puzzled Amazing that it retains its good sound quality when it's defective. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I think that all fits within my current understanding. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I appreciate your engagement with me in this discussion. I’m not a software engineer either, and what little programming I ever did used audio APIs that were a black box that I just plugged in without understanding all the details... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio One digital copy may exactly resemble another, but you still have to get that digital file from one place to another and then convert it to a convincing analog audio presentation. The server just has to get the correct series o... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @mdalton Sounds very plausible to me. I've read other accounts of EMI creating audible sound effects in susceptible DACs. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I mean, "grooves are grooves," right? Is one person’s system "broken" because it sounds different from another person’s system? It’s a very different situation because the groove on a record hasn’t been transferred to an abstra... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I'm using HDMI out of my computer into a receiver. I'm not sure what brand it is. Some very basic HDMI cable that costs about 12 bucks and can handle 8 channels of audio at 24/96 along with a 4k HDR video signal. So I'm definitely not saying my sy... |