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| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! deep_333 OP 446 posts 01-11-2024 at 10:08am @yoyoyaya @benanders I have used a fair amount of studio monitors at home over the years, nearfield and midfield (Neumann, Yamaha, Genelec, etc). They have never come anywhere close to what I r... | |
| Ripping CDs mlsstl 1,330 posts 01-10-2024 at 11:05pm While I don't have one, it looks like one of the simplest and easiest to use one-box solutions is a Brennan CD ripper. It includes a hard drive for file storage and looks up the CDs metadata for t... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! But @yoyoyaya is there any (lower priced) studio monitor that puts the PA energy into music playback? They seem tangential to the goals here. Seems OP is hoping to save money and get a more live experience but the trouble might come from studio-re... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? p05129 446 posts 01-10-2024 at 07:40pm … Now I do think it’s foolish to buy a set of expensive speakers and put them in a room crammed next to a sofa, can’t bring them out from the wall, or put in a non-treated room, then you will never get... | |
| Ripping CDs Bit of a sign of the times when a OP asks about ripping CD’s and much of the talk turns to forget-it-just-stream. Many albums have been repressed multiple times. With that often comes remasters. By relying solely on a streaming service to the excl... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? Whether or not you agree with all of it, this article brings up many points for bassic consideration. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/elephant-control-room | |
| Good measuring DACs vs. A number of DACs have come through my system (most not owned by me) and I couldn’t tell much if any difference between them. The two I have, use chips nearly 20 years apart in design and I can’t make out predictable difference. I know, that’ll lik... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? Music or movies (or both)? Big room or small room? Neighbors? The first two factors will depend on what you want and how competently you can work / trial your way through implementation. The third factor, sub(s) will never make things bette... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade ghdprentice 5,843 posts 01-09-2024 at 09:53am @benanders I’m glad you are curious. But we are not working on graduate degrees here (which btw I have). Those of us with lots of experience are trying to help those with less to effectively na... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! I’ve read of Crown amps driving in-home hifi speakers to the owner’s taste, but not the reverse PA-hifi match. The variable to consider for PA speakers in-home is not just how they are designed for power-over-fidelity, but what you’d be playing t... | |
| Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ? @hilde45 I agree with @blisshifi that the DIY route could be very beneficial if speaker sensitivity is important and you’ve the relevant carpentry and software skills and/or time x willingness to learn more. Once I defined my own parameters for “... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade @audphile1 thanks, indeed the source of my skepticism over broad applicability of the stance that greater cost = greater quality: there’s no robust study to support this, just many anecdotes and opinions. That will not change until design schemati... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade Not looking to pot-stir. Just reinstating what general science tells us. The fallacy of the “weak link” remains a fallacy until there is hard evidence of its existence. That’s what I meant by individuals who seek improvement in various “links” wi... | |
| It's attention, not money, we should budget Allocating per-device price percentages is not really different than allocating per-device costs. The tendency of folks on this site to discuss revolving through the kit in their chains suggests that the common fixation on hardware won’t always b... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade @2psyop and @hilde45 I agree - emphasis on the streamer to improve sound quality without even identifying what sound quality “issue” there is, is an inefficient place to exercise one’s upgrade-itis. If the interest is in a seamless user inter... |