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Any mass market speaker with beryllium compression drivers?
Interesting, that's good to hear. I hope more active monitors adapt them, especially the 2-way horn/woofer designs, they are the most accurate IMO. 
best speakers for vocals?
KEF 
Any mass market speaker with beryllium compression drivers?
I was talking about pre-built speakers not the drivers. Quick search yielded  DD67000 and  SK2-3300. Nobody else seems to sell speakers with those kind of compression drivers. Such a shame... 
I s Benchmark the "Benchmark"
Benchmark sounds unnaturally thin and just unnatural. Emotiva just sounds perfect, every day I am astonished by how good my system sounds. You really need to try both in your own system, interactions between components can be nasty especially if... 
I s Benchmark the "Benchmark"
Emotiva DAC sounds much better than Benchmark and far cheaper. Both got trial period so be your own judge, 
Best near wall high end speaker
Get in wall speakers 
Does such a speaker exist?
Zd542: Focal SM9, it's on a totally different level...Also haven't heard this one myself, but try Genelec 8351 
Does such a speaker exist?
active monitors 
beryllium vs diamond
I got a beryllium tweeter right now. And... it's eye opening for sure.Basically, you get super high damping/more accurate compared to lesser tweeters. BUT, due to lesser ringing of the metal, you get less (artificial) ambiance! And it can suck dep... 
With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you
Genelec. 
NOS DAC's without any digital filtering?
You generally won't be able to tell how much modern DAC sucks until you got a really high end accurate system. That means super high damping (making integrating the amp into the speaker mandatory), plus you'll need balanced power (to reduce noise ... 
NOS DAC's without any digital filtering?
I don't see any questions directed at me in this thread? 
NOS DAC's without any digital filtering?
And yes, Zd542, the Directstream sounded horrible. The market price for it just keeps going to down reflects that. $2950 and no buyers. 
NOS DAC's without any digital filtering?
My system is now pretty close to a recording studio setup + NOS R2R DAC. And.. there are a lot of bad recording out there. The vast majority of supposedly hi-res recording (from the jpop side) simply sounds worse than the CD release. I pretty stop... 
burr-brown vs. sabre vs. ?
Robertsong: most NOS DACs today are based on old R2R chips. Outside of custom R2R NOS dac (Metrum, TotalDAC), Soekris is a recent one but no one has commercialized it yet...Someone has managed to turn Burr-brown PCM1794a (6 bit R2R + rest in Delta...