benanders
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| 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 ... | |
| Musical subwoofer under $2000 I use a stereo pair of Gallo Acoustic TR3-D subs, have for years. Right in your price range, too. For my setup to be of correct frequency : driver surface area balance, I should have 3 subs per channel (long tall story, literally), but one sub pe... | |
| LS50 vs R11/7/5 Meta It was clever to realize you’re missing something other than SPL in your listening space. Those LS50 drivers only offer so much Surface Area and that’s where I bet your upper bass / mids seem to be want for improvement. Calculating driver SA on ... | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? I’m not aware of evidence that rules out difference in sound between streamer models, but counting on this piece of kit in a music playback chain to make a “next level” difference in sound is a pretty dubious gamble based on how streamers and huma... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In My best friends in speaker positioning have been multidirectional laser levels. Some good models can be bought for under USD $200 each. Having 2-3 multidirectional units makes things even quicker. I don’t find unidirectional laser levels as he... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In “Where I originally had my speakers, the vocals seemed to be a little fuller. (If my memory is correct). Now, with little toe in, they seem to be a little thinner sounding, but the soundstage is wider, and details are more apparent. Which is co... |