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| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. I beg to differ ieales. The usage is different, but acoustics does not magically change, and goals acoustically need to be similar. Read the articles in detail. The acoustic properties they discuss are universal, but very few have ever done the wo... | |
| Living with unsolvable hum - Any audio detectives out there? To me the simple fact the volume does not change tells me this hum is not coming FROM the pre-amp, because then it should increase when the pre-amp volume is turned up. Only thing I can think of is its an interaction WITH the pre-amp. I would ... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. From what I can tell in my limited time here @baylinor, it is a serious uphill struggle. Unfortunately it is easier to change a fuse or cable and claim a big improvement than to actually take the time, learn, learn some new skills, break dogma, a... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? @thyname,Maybe you should actually try reading some time instead of this bizarre obsession you have with me (and others it seems). You really need to get out of that little row house and out the country more and get some air. Did you actually foll... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? 2nd post, me thinks @audiogeorge2 has an axe to grind. You know that most vinyl is digitally mastered? | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. Amazing, math and physics work! Thank you for the post @baylinor. If you do measurements, you will likely find that is where the frequency response is flattest.However I find that the 38% rule from the back wall is the ultimate position for me. I... | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. Your Maggies and Martin Logan's may not work as noted, that article was not targeting this type of speaker. However your Triangles, with the proper acoustic treatment would. Just because a speakers name is Triangle does not change the physics of a... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? How dare you bring actual facts into the discussion @rhj88 when people have strong opinions and sunk cost on their side! | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Apple only supports 44.1/16 max for music and what I remember, the earlier ones (and I think the one you were using is quite old) resampled everything to 48KHz with questionable math accuracy.No mention in your posts of actually using a Chromecast... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? If the streamer is optically isolated USB, I would love to hear in your own words what a "better cleaner data packet" is.No the pointnis that more powerful streamers present the dac with a better cleaner data packet which produces audible improve... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. You are comparing an AV receiver that could be doing any number of things to the signal to an integrated 2 channel that could also be doing many things and add in differences in level and expecting them to be the same. | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. How so and at what cost i.e. what did you give up/lose. | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Funny enough, ASR did measure the Chromecast audio and showed that it had somewhat high jitter on the optical output, and that final performance would be DAC dependent. Maybe I am selectively remembering the review, but I am too lazy to look it up... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? You would be surprised how few audiophiles have actually heard R2R in a system that they know well enough to separate the qualities of the R2R from everything else, not that that will stop a large number of them from claiming that they do.Similarl... | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. I wish I could push my speakers against the wall and get good sound but that hasn't been possible with the loudspeakers I owned in the last 45 years. YMMV. May I suggest reading the articles the op has posted then. That will tell you how to do i... |