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| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable I wanted Wilson WATT / Puppies back in the 1990s. Then I wanted Klipschorns, which I got and still have, and don't listen to much anymore. Now I want to try new and unorthodox things, so DIY is required, and I've lost interest in owning off-the-sh... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Good points by all. Some musicians want top notch instruments, others will perform on whatever is available and adjust their style. If any piece of equipment does something you really like, and you can manage the cost, then get it! James Booker m... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @facten Over the years I've been allowed to compare various brands including Theta, Wadia, Mark Levinson, and more recently Benchmark. These all sounded fine to my ears, but nothing has ever leapt out at me, even after extended periods of listen... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @arafiq Really? You think that’s the only thing setting a Ferrari and Corolla apart? No, and you are emphasizing my point for me very well. There are huge and easily measurable differences between a Ferrari and Corolla. Nobody would confuse t... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Speaking of Corolla Ferrari comparisons, I think what has to be kept in mind is that when you take a cheap and expensive dac "out on the track" you find out that the Corolla dac with it's cheap tires and regular gas is keeping up with the fully de... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? I don't hear vast differences between modern dacs, except for the ones that won't reliably lock on to my digital source. I'm very sensitive to the music randomly cutting out. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter That's a lot of width, AND you've also got a full 20 feet of depth so it seems pretty ideal. I would try flipping it around just to see how it sounds. It's often recommended to put the speakers on the lower ceiling end. The sound tends to propagat... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. Correct presentation is an interesting concept, and I can’t resist the temptation to make analogies to photography. If we’re going to print a photograph of a sunny beach scene, and we want it to look natural and realistic, are we just going to lin... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. My experience with tube amps has not been better than solid state. I've liked some tube amps well enough, but I have yet to hear what it is that gets others so excited about them. In any case, I'll agree with the OP's assertion that proper present... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? A sound can seem realistic even if it's not accurately being reproduced. It might have been intended to sound like it's being heard in a different listening context than it's coming across, but it's coming across in a way that sounds very realisti... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @brev Curious that you would use the word impact. Maybe that’s not the best word. I just noticed that the effect of my father’s photos was indeed pleasing to the eye, but not the end-all in realism. The real scene seemed more colorful, but it... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I consider myself fortunate to be able to appreciate and enjoy high quality audio and visual reproduction even though I don’t require it to enjoy content (although some content can be pretty rough on the ears if it isn't reproduced really well, or... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn I think I’m becoming a believer in dipoles. My setup isn’t even close to ideal yet and it’s already making me really happy. I’ve moved the crossover all the way up to 3500 Hz and it sounds amazing even though the mid is pretty beamy up... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @brev My dad was a photographer. One year I was at the county fair looking at the photographs and saw one that looked like something my dad would do. Sure enough, it was his picture and it got some kind of award. The thing I mostly noticed was h... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn What I really want is a certain sound and image quality. Just for philosophical fun I'm going to challenge that statement. Is that what you really want, or is it how you expect that certain sound and image quality will make you ... |