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| 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... | |
| Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ? Consider speaker design category (e.g. in your mention - K-horns) not just brand. Format of the driver arrangements can be a good predictor of efficiency, and past that it will matter if you like the way a given speaker model sounds. I don’t thin... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? ossicle2brain 105 posts 01-04-2024 at 03:28am An interesting experiment would be to take two DPDT switches like these And hook up two competing cables. With a simple throw of the switch one could easily A/B test cables. I wonder why this isn... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? Make no mistake OP and anyone else - most posters (that I recall?) in this thread did not state (in this thread) that high end sales aim to fleece anyone. I for one don’t generally don’t assume that. Thats not the same as calling need for respect... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? @cleeds can’t argue with you there - I should’ve been more careful about using the term “measures” 😉 - meaning (long-established) analytical measures in an experimental sense. Some gear measurements, when taken on their own and not corroborated w... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? I think the bullhorns and brashness come from folks tired of trying to find ways to instill the broad concept of how the word “test” can be (and oft is) misused when discussing anecdotal (personal) sampling that doesn’t conform to any measures es... | |
| *DAC The DAC is probably not the last piece of your puzzle. Seems you are streaming music. Your music source files are the last piece of the puzzle: if they are dynamically compressed, no price-point DAC will jump the shark you’ve placed in this path. ... | |
| DAC RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE You’ve got the speakers to do what you want. I’d say never mind the DAC - low 3 figure$ USD will get you where you want to be, so long as your music source files are what you need them to be. In doubt? Ask those informants who “researched” what t... | |
| Musical subwoofer under $2000 If you get two subs, you can also try each as L/R mono ( = stereo subs), and you can conversely stack them vertically and run each in stereo (L + R channel signals) to see if an “array” approach improves their “collective” directivity. Stacking ma... | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? toro3 268 posts 12-21-2023 at 07:41pm Interesting conversation. @benanders @yage what streamers have you owned/used? Yage it looks like you’re using a Raspberry Pi in your main system - I’m assuming this is still the case, yes? The las... | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging I haven’t seen discrete mention of the importance of driver surface area emphasized re: your intentions. Hints, but not the harsh reality check: A 40 x 40’ room (am I recalling dimensions correctly?) is immense by hifi speaker standards. It will ... |