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| What are your thoughts on Raidho? I heard some Raidho at the Southwest Audiofest this year. I enjoyed the short time I listened to them but was perplexed trying to understand what it was that I was hearing that sounded so different than most speakers to me. Looking at measuremen... | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles I haven't had meatloaf in a long time. I love it. I think I'll be making some soon. A cold meatloaf sandwich sounds wonderful right now! | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? No, I don't think you could get a good stereo dac for much under $50k. But you might be able to talk Esoteric in to selling you just one of their monoblock dacs so you could have decent mono sound for well under $50k. They sell the stereo pair for... | |
| Mono recordings and my new respect for them Most people prefer to listen to mono recordings on stereo systems compared to mono systems. That is interesting, I think. You could always disconnect one speaker if you want to hear mono in mono. | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? I was not familiar with Rockpile. Good stuff! | |
| Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC? I have definitely heard improvement from restarting a dac, but this was in cases of very obvious distortion setting in for reasons I don’t understand. I can’t say that I’ve ever noticed more subtle improvements from a restart, but based on the ext... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. I wouldn't waste any time feeling sorry for them, just like they shouldn't waste any time feeling sorry for you. They're happy with their stuff, you're happy with yours. I'm happy with mine, which probably doesn't meet your standards or theirs. | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? I saw a video where a coffee expert was blind tested to see if he could distinguish different levels of coffee. He did really well, and explained that somewhere around $30 / lb the actual quality of the coffee was completely topped out. After that... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? We're talking about best sound possible from 2 channel audio, which in my opinion is able to sound very good, but is fundamentally limited by the format. From my perspective, and from my limited experience I'd say a carefully selected equipment ... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters @erik_squires Thanks for the WAWB reference. I looked that up on DIYaudio. One guy talks about the excellent balance and sharp percussion. This is what I'm noticing on my system lately. With my CD horn it wasn't really doing those things to ful... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters @erik_squires I'm all about that midrange too. But a lot of tweeters go a significant way down in to it. And, how that midrange marries to the other frequencies matters. So, what's the best approach to a coherent, uncolored, beautiful midrang... | |
| 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 ... |