calvinandhobbes
Responses from calvinandhobbes
| High Performance Audio - The End? My perspective is that there are there are two general design directions for audio equipment at higher price points. One direction focused on more detail and resolution. The other direction is oriented towards more musicality and conveying the emo... | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal In terms of sound quality, Qobuz sounds better hands down to my ears. This is listening via not a particularly high quality digital source (iPhone 6S/Audioquest Jitterbug/Audioquest Dragonfly Red DAC). Qobuz even sounds better through the crappy t... | |
| What is the average dealer mark up? In terms of accepting a typical dealer markup, the ethical answer for me is whether I want to listen to a product before buying. I recently auditioned 12 pairs of speakers at 7 different stores before buying a pair of speakers that I love. From th... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? I was auditioning $2k floor standing speakers recently. Two speakers that stood out as being surprisingly not good were the B&W 603 and the Goldenear Audio Triton Five. I've seen good reviews for both but how they sounded seemed nothing like ... | |
| Hunt for new floor standers I just bought a pair of Monitor Audio Silver 300s and have been really impressed by the knife-edge balance that they achieve between detail, speed, dynamics and relative lack of harshness. I auditioned 11 speakers before choosing the Silver 300s. ... | |
| Polling Integrated Amp & Vinyl Users My 30 year old Creek 4140's phono preamp allows for either MM input or MC input down to 0.1mV. The amount of gain is switchable between MM and MC. Everything sounds great though I'm sure something could be better if I threw enough money at a new... |