calvinandhobbes
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| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? I can provide some actual listening impressions to address the OP's question. I have the previous-gen Monitor Audio Silver 300s and have been quite pleased with their resolution and refinement especially at their very reasonable price of $2200. Wh... | |
| Recommended USB Cables. I compared a Phasure Lush to several low priced cables. Generic HP printer cable: Free with printer Belkin Gold: $15 Pangea Audio Premier SE: $50 Shunyata Venom: $100-200 Phasure Lush: $253 The Phasure was both smoother and more detailed in... | |
| Forum Updates 11/24/2021 Thank you, Tammy! Great improvements! | |
| Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required? I would say that it depends on the specific room. If you set up your system in a bedroom, apparently a large bed makes a great bass trap. | |
| Power cord choice? If you want to claim that the engineer in the podcast I’ve posted above doesn’t know about cables since he designs amplifiers, this series of articles might be more to your liking: https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/cables-time-is-of-the-essen... | |
| Power cord choice? Here's what an electrical engineer who designs audio equipment for PS Audio has to say about why cables sound different. He's got better credentials than any of you. Commentary starts at 55 minutes into the podcast:https://www.thehifipodcast.net/e... | |
| Power cord choice? What if measurements don’t actually capture everything about how a cable sounds?To the folks that say that you have miles of electrical cable that run to your outlet, what if a power cable has the effect of filtering out EMI/RFI?I’ve had a limited... | |
| OMG!!! They used their ears. Wow! As if measurements aren't able to capture all elements of how a space sounds. What a surprise! | |
| RE: the question: ":Why do forum interactions become contentious". . . @tomrk 100%. Some people don't have anything better to do in real life than to spend their time attacking other on online forums. | |
| RE: the question: ":Why do forum interactions become contentious". . . Lack of self-confidence-or-the inability of some people to see that not everyone thinks, has the same perceptions, or has the same values as they doThis is supposedly a fun activity that we are discussing. And some people are insecure enough to wa... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point I highly suggest listening to any DAC that you are considering. If you can't listen to a DAC locally, perhaps consider buying one used so you can resell it if it doesn't perform up to your expectations.Contrary to what some others are saying that ... | |
| Looking for high end individual streamer & individual dac to work in tandem. My notes on the Pontus compared to the Qutest: Impressions of the Pontus: Resolution and Warmth: I always thought that resolution and warmth were traits on two opposite ends of a spectrum. It has already been eye-opening that Pontus actually see... | |
| Looking for high end individual streamer & individual dac to work in tandem. These were my listening notes on the Qutest. The Qutest was pretty good, BUT the Pontus is much better in terms of naturalness of tone, detail/resolution, and conveying a sense of ease or urgency when appropriate. Background on the Qutest as a r... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point @hysteve I did not use a reclocker, but I am open to the benefits that a reclocker can add. I tend to trust my ears on questions of that nature. Devices that provide more galvanic isolation to reduce RFI/EMI noise are another direction that I'm in... | |
| Looking for high end individual streamer & individual dac to work in tandem. For a more analog like sound, I’ve been quite happy with a Pro-ject Stream Box S2 streamer & a Denafrips Pontus II DAC. The Pro-ject is about $850 and the Pontus II is about $1750. The Pontus II seems to punch quite a bit above its modest pric... |