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| DAC recommendation in the $1k range Tascam/TEAC is the real deal. PS Audio is snake oil ( I learned it the hard way) | |
| Concert Experience for $5k? Get powered PA speakers, that’s what they use at small concerts. 15 inch two way and you sure will feel it. Just be careful not to destroy your house/windows.Bigger concert uses arrays, but that won’t work in your home :) | |
| DAC VS AVR Go with the Marantz AV8802A, buy it used. Or wait for the next one that has Dirac. | |
| Does it ever bother you Active monitors that accepts digital input is about as digital as it get’s. Then PWM class D direct to drivers. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? The room is actually the most important piece, more important than speakers. Which sucks majorly as houses are so expensive... | |
| Furutech vs Neotech gold plated schuko sound quality Bare wire sounds the best. | |
| Beware of PayPal fees Paypal charges me like 3.2% now. I usually offer buyers 2 options. Friend and family, no fee. 5%-10% more if they want to use the good&services options (to compensate for the risk). | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive jafant: JBL 305. If there was an active version of the 705i I would get that instead though. | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive I just got rid of a $4000 speakers, and replaced them with a $200 speakers. I liked the $200 one better. | |
| 2 subs in a small room? In my room, 2 subs actually produced worse frequency response than 1. Getting rid of the extra sub proved costly... | |
| Thoughts on balanced power If you are going for value, used Equitech 2RQ goes for less than $1000. Transformers last forever. Checkout gearslutz classified section. But really, the best value is to go without and go with 240V equiptments. Even cheap stuff sounds like a mill... | |
| Multichannel sounds better than stereo What I’ve found so far is that depth mainly come from room reflections. A closed rectangular room will sound way better than an open irregular room in this regard. Majority of recording do not have depth, a few have room reverb in them, but most e... | |
| Multichannel sounds better than stereo I just use MPC-BE’s built in upmixer (I suspect it’s using a matrix like Dolby Pro Logic II). The plugins for foobar sounded wrong to me.For surround back, I found the best location to be a mirror image of the front speaker. Position them to the l... | |
| Thoughts on balanced power The 240V balanced to 120V balanced equitech units (those that are 3kVA and above) are the best you can do without doing 240v balanced directly off the street transformer to your equiptment. The 120v unbalanced to 120V balanced is a compromise but ... | |
| Please Help Me Shorten My List Go to Guitar Center to audition active monitors. |