budjoe
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| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? The SPL level for best listening is an area I have been exploring lately, and have no definitive answer. I can only comment on what I have observed. The first thing I will note is that reader reports of what level they listen at are not a very go... | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile I have been into music listening since an early age starting with a transistor radio in grade school. My first real audio component journey began in 1980. I don’t remember whether the speakers or amp and preamp came first. I’ll start with the am... | |
| A controversial takes on low cost speakers with a lesson... This is the second thread today that I feel the need to throw some comment into. There are multiple things going on in this thread that need clarification. I have read the postings prior to @kerrybh comments multiple times. I don’t see that @ma... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? I’ll rephrase the original question slightly. The artists I can listen to their whole catalog, and listen to day after day. (also based on what is in my library): Talking Heads The Byrds J.S. Bach Next tier: (may need a break between - not qui... | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson - Coconut and Jump into the Fire Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I put a Spell On You and many others | |
| Integrated Amplifier Recommendations Needed I tend to agree with bgross. Vintage speakers should have a vintage receiver. Sansui, Marantz, Kenwood, Macintosh. Upper end models of any of the brands fully restored (pots cleaned, replaced, caps and diodes replaced) should be available within y... | |
| Any owners of Schitt Bifrost 2? I have a Bifrost 2 and a Modi Multibit. I think the first question regarding Schiit DACs and other choices is: are you satisfied with 24/192 PCM data, or do you want DSD or MQA and can that be decoded before the Schiit DAC. I have what many here... | |
| Why did this just happen ? You didn’t specify which MacBook Pro you are now using. If it is one with the M1 processor, that is part of the answer, plus better/faster processing from the ram, storage, and input and output. Beyond that, results will vary depending on what els... | |
| Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation Space inside the cabinet will be a big determining factor for what speakers will fit in your allotted space. I will add Ascend Acoustics Luna https://ascendacoustics.com/collections/sierra-series-pairs/products/luna-v2-mini-monitor-pair?variant=... | |
| A listening test of two power amps Normalizing should be done to peak amplitude, not RMS. Both of your files have a peak amplitude that is clipped at between 1’08” and 1’09”. I generally normalize to -1.0 dB of peak. I used values in your original samples to come up with the value... | |
| A listening test of two power amps In the samples I sent to you, the waveforms were normalized to -3.0 dB, then the zoomed portion was normalized to -0.3 dB. In the zoomed section, the noise on the quiet part of the j-piano-zoom was very similar on both the left and right channel.... | |
| A listening test of two power amps Just read your post about distortion on the j and y piano files. I think you may have something else going on. Looking at the wave form of the j and p files, there is almost no ripple in the quiet parts on either file. Certainly not enough to be a... | |
| A listening test of two power amps Listened to all nine as originally provided, and with a modification (more on that later). In general across the 3 different versions of each I liked j the most, y second, and p the least. Differences are slight. I like the attack on j and y the ... | |
| A listening test of two power amps @surdo Finally got to due a little more compare of the e & t files. My first try was at a lower volume than I think should be used for comparison. First pass at that low volume, file e was much better than t, but on replay, t was closer to e... | |
| A listening test of two power amps @erik_squires "1. Match level by multimeter instead of SPL. Get a 60 Hz signal and check the output on either speaker. You can get really accurate this way." I am a little ambivalent about using 60Hz sine and voltage to verify output level balanc... |