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| 2023 AXPONA Show Report @dayglow Your comment made me realize that yes, the majority of my coverage was from the lower level floors in larger rooms. I did also visit every floor and listened in dozens of rooms. There were some notable rooms there, like the Constellation/... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report @bubba12 i did listen to the Dyn / Octave room and thought it was pretty good. Nothing really stuck out at me but nothing about it was bad, either. It was definitely pleasing, but nothing too exciting. With the FR 30, it didn’t sound bad overall,... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I’m a bit late to the party but I recently posted some photos and commentary of what I thought were the most notable rooms and wanted to share: https://blisshifi.com/axpona-2023-gear-report/ Would love to hear others’ thoughts on my findings as ... | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables @ghasley Nicely said! And many times the audible differences in those interfaces are due to differences (improvements and fallacies in signal preservation, impedance, shielding, and grounding) in cable designs (e.g. one Coax can sound vastly diffe... | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables @ghasley I appreciate your respect, and no offense is taken. I’ll be the first to admit that I myself still have much to learn about the engineering side of audio. I am at least lucky to consider myself curious and want to gain experience and expe... | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables @ghasley Digital cables are basically intended to transmit square waves of sorts, right, and not a full analog audio signal (despite whether you classify those signals as analog, they do not contain the analog representation of the music)? Yes, al... | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables @pegolea Digital cables transmit a digital, binary signal (0’s and 1’s) before a digital to analog converter (DAC) converts the signal into an analog signal. Generally different types of digital cables have required specifications to enable the e... | |
| What to try? One amp I’ve owned and don’t usually recommend to everyone is the VPI 299D, but it fits your search perfectly. It is more refined than other tube integrateds from Rogue or Primaluna and has a MM phono built in. It was designed in joint by Harry W... | |
| Borresen X3 at Axpona @ditusa A 2.5-way is when the woofer crosses off above a certain frequency to prevent it from going into the mids, but the midrange driver is not crossed over in the lower frequencies and instead plays the full range, at least from the bottom end. | |
| Why a dearth of some brands on the used market? I also agree with @yesiam_a_pirate regarding quantity produced. Also, there are different types of products made for different types of audiophiles. Not all audiophiles are gear swappers, but those that are tend to be attracted to brands that targ... | |
| Why a dearth of some brands on the used market? It had always been on my bucket list to own a pair of Luxman M-600a amplifiers to use as mono blocks. They are by far not the most expensive or coveted Luxman amp, but they rarely show up used in excellent condition - seems people are listing ones... | |
| Borresen X3 at Axpona @ditusa While there are two crossover points, the low crossover in the Borresen just denotes where the bass driver(s) starts to roll off into the mids. The midrange tends to perform at the full range until the high frequency crossover point, so th... | |
| Borresen X3 at Axpona @ozzy You’ll be surprised given both Borresen’s and Scansonic’s cabinet innovations. The smaller Scansonic MB-2.5B can fill a medium to large room with no sub, and it only has two 4.5” woofers. My Borresen 02, with similar drivers, do the same but... | |
| Borresen X3 at Axpona @dayglow yes, most Borresen speakers are 2.5 way speakers. I suppose they are able to deliver better performance having the midrange play the full set of low-end frequencies instead of crossing them over. The same applied to my Z3 and 02. I am a... | |
| Borresen X3 at Axpona For the X and Z series, I believe the cabinets are made in China, shipped to Denmark, and then the speaker is assembled in Denmark. I’m not sure if the same applies to the 0 and M series. |