calvinandhobbes
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| Looking for more advice on purchasing a new turntable. One thing that I suggest considering in the choice of a turntable is the type of music you prefer. This is a vast generality but some turntables sound more solid but seem to lack some pace. These turntables can sound really good with orchestral mu... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? An anecdote about how much I like the sound of the Pontus II. I decided to listen to much more expensive DACs over the past two years, because I was curious to figure out what spending a LOT more money in a DAC could get me. Note as context for m... | |
| AQ Blizzard or Thunder? Thanks @adasdad for sharing your experience with the Thunder versus the Blizzard power cable. What improvements did you notice in your sound quality when switching to the Thunder power cable? | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? I'm all about analog. low fatigue sounds. full sound with timbre, holographic,tubey,warm. @bunkertoy The Pontus II is great at conveying timbre and sounding warm. Is it better than your Bel Canto? The only way to tell is to have it in your syst... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? @freediver @tkrtrb125 You're both misunderstanding the effect of noise (EMI or RFI) on a digital component. You won't hear noise as audible static or hash. Instead, it affects how music is reproduced. Noise makes digital music sound more edgy and ... | |
| Favorite mid-tier streamer Pro-ject Stream Box S2 Ultra sounds pretty good. I haven't heard too many other streamers, but it didn't sound any different than a Naim NDX 2. Pro-ject + a Denafrips Pontus II DAC sounded better than a dCS Bartok network player. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @audiom3 Understand the term 'sarcasm' much? Yes, there is no such thing as PRaT in a live concert because you are listening to live instruments. PRaT refers only to the reproduction of music with a focus on how accurately the leading and trailin... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @panzrwagn "Overall, I believe PRaT is fundamentally about controlling and minimizing stored energy within a system. It is the release of that stored energy that smears the sound, robbing the music of PRaT." I think you’re right on the mark based... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @stuartk I would agree that all musical genres benefit to some level from better PRaT, but my perspective is that whether PRaT is a key element to understanding the music will vary by genre. Some musical genres like jazz have frequent quick intera... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @gregm Ivor Tiefenbrun was a brilliant marketer for sure. He took the essence of British Hi-Fi and translated that into words to get awareness in the US market. I think Linn's products back in the 70s and 80s were not so different from other audio... | |
| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay I think there are multiple factors that go into a holographic sound with air (aka ambient cues). The acoustics of your room have to be right. Uncontrolled stray reverberation can reduce the sense of air as can rooms that are too acoustically da... | |
| How to Wire a Linn Aktiv System Call a Linn dealer to help? I'm sure it will cost you, but at least nothing will get fried in the process. | |
| Which power cord should you buy first FWIW, a Shunyata Venom V14 power cable (not the V14 Digital) at about $100 used and $200 might be a good power cable for experimenting as it didn't seem to have any dramatically bad effects in any part of my system as did some more expensive power... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first Echoing what @mclinnguy said, If you have a power conditioner, I would get a power cable for that. My thinking is that results in cleaner power to all downstream components resulting in less effect of placing a power cable on those other component... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? FWIW, electrostatic speakers have PRaT in spades because of extremely lightweight of their moving elements. |