bruce19
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| Streamer upgrade - best path forward My advice is to look at a used 2015 vintage Auralic Aries streamer. They can be had for around $800. It was a design well ahead of its time with an external linear power supply that is huge. Especially since you don’t want Roon, you get Auralic‘s ... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I can contribute one more datapoint on the question of how rare is an audiophile . I live in New Jersey, a state of 9 million or so people. I belong to New Jersey audiopile society which has a membership of 74 people. Even if we assume that only t... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I think she means that there are a lot of us who take ourselves and our obsession with equipment way too seriously. Especially when you consider that it is a largely self-absorbed activity which appeals greatly to introverts with surplus time and ... | |
| How rare is an audiophile This is a nice discussion, and there are many thoughts that come to mind, but I think the best came from my dear wife, who, by the way, has an excellent ear, and puts up with us, having no less than five different systems in our house, in regard t... | |
| Decware and “The List” Perhaps some of you might be interested that you can buy the printed circuit board for the original Zen triode and build it yourself. I just did that and it arrived in about a week. https://www.decware.com/newsite/SE84CDIY.htm Se84c there is a v... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I have found open baffle speakers to offer a similar imaging magic as a magnet pan, and yet can’t be ever so much less demanding in terms of amplifier choice. | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? How about sandbags? They are cheap and anyone who has taken a long walk on the beach knows that sand is very good at absorbing energy. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps Get yourself a pair of full range speakers from Lii Song audio and put them in a baffle board, the Decware/Caintuck speakers are a good model, wide-open, no back or, sides, and no crossover. They don’t do super loud, but there is some kind of mag... | |
| Best Class D GaNFET Amp Comparison. Who to invite? Here’s another vote for the low price leader Premium Audio’s Mini GaN 5. if it’s not in there, you’re just artificially raising the price floor. Not sure I see the point of including tweaked amps, because it no longer is the item that the manufact... | |
| Why Are We Breaking Our Brains? @waytoomuchstuff your analogy breaks down rather quickly, as several people have noted already. Blind tasting is central to wine judging. Has been always will be. Professional sommeliers, are tested and accredited using this method. Winemaking i... | |
| STREAMER @jasbirnandra you might want to edit your original question to ask will a power cord make an improvement. It is surprising, how often folks around here, conflate “different“ with “better“ and “cost“ with “quality”. | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? I am at peace with these questions ever since I realized that hi-fi is part of the entertainment industry, not the science world. Audiophiles who follow the technical path have technically excellent systems audiophiles who follow the please yourse... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? If that was your point, Tony, you are right I did miss it. However, I still don’t see where the cost of ownership comes out less. I have heard extraordinary systems, and they have sounded extra ordinary with the music that was played for me on th... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? This whole “cost equals sound quality“ argument in hi-fi is very suspect. Here are a couple of reasons why. A.) In many, if not all hi-fi components, the case equals more than half the cost of the component. Thus, you are paying for looks not fo... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? $11,000 DAC used will likely enjoy his purchase immensely with potentially a lower cost of ownership than the person who bought the $1100 DAC new. Tony, accepting your hypothetical numbers the person who bought the $1100 dac loses $1000 in valu... |