calvinandhobbes
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| 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. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? My short definition for PRaT: You can clearly hear how different voices and instruments are interacting together in music. This is particularly evident in jazz music as a vast generality. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? The type of music you're listening to matters in term of whether PRaT is relevant. I've listened to turntables that sound soft and somewhat indistinct rhythmically (typically high mass turntables), but their reproduction of the weight of orchestra... | |
| Denafrips Pontus *15th* ? Thanks @pgoodfield & @soix! | |
| Denafrips Pontus *15th* ? For those of you using an Iris, Hermes, or Gaia DDC, are you using those DDCs with a computer or with a streamer? I'm wondering if the benefits of using a DDC are audible when used with a streamer that inherently has less noise. | |
| Power conditioner/Surge Protection At least in my system, the Furman PST-8D Power Conditioner had a negative effect on sound quality. My initial impression was that plugging my system into the Furman made music sound calmer. After several more minutes of listening, it seemed like ... | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used For detail and punch, Monitor Audio Gold 300s might fit the bill or a set of used Monitor Audio Platinum 300s could be worth considering. I think they will have the speed and detail of your current B&Ws but just on the right side of the warmth... | |
| New speakers for a new start? I also love the sound of electrostatics, but having massive 6 foot tall panels anywhere in my house is a definite no go. One possibly surprising, fairly mainstream choice are Monitor Audio speakers. They are surprisingly fast in sound and are wel... | |
| Solo streamer Being happy...that’s generally everyone’s goal in life once the veneer of all the details is stripped out. The path to happiness is not necessarily a logical one & what’s logical is different for all of us. If @rvpiano is happy with his purcha... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response For a "normal" speaker, Monitor Audio speakers are quite fast. Not electrostatic level of speed, but they sound noticeably fast to me. A quote from a Stereophile review of the Silver 300s rings true to me: "What these speakers said was spoken wit... | |
| Least expensive plug-in power conditioner that works I've just been going through exactly this same exercise. Some comments that I posted in another forum: I listened to the rest of the test scenarios that I was considering 1. Cheap Computer Surge Protector - as a control 2. Audioquest Niagara ... |