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| $15,000 Speaker Does Not List Freq Response Specs Nowadays I only buy active monitors. | |
| Focal utopia Be Nova vs Magico q3 I love the beryllium tweeters. But with that said, I’ll probably downsize and go with a 5.1 setup with all identical cheap active monitors soon. | |
| Overcoming ba(e)droom accoustics As long as the room is symmetrical you will be fine. Non- symmetrical rooms are a lost cause though, abandon all hope. | |
| JRiver vs Foobar - which do you prefer and why? Foobar is terrible, I’ve switched to MPC-BE (it's got a kick ass upmixer)+ explorer. | |
| What used speaker would you buy with $20,000-$35,000 and why? None, the better bang for the buck is to go surround 5 speaker setup with cheaper speakers. It’ll sound better too. | |
| Best budget DAC Emotiva XDA-2 fit’s your budget $200ish and is very good.With that said, I highly highly recommend the DC-1 at $400ish. That is not a budget DAC, it’s a top of the line DAC + great reclocker + top of the line preamp + headphone amp (never used it ... | |
| Digital cable length- SPDIF vs AES/EBU- 1.5 meter for either? I got a 50 feet AES cable run (using 4 out of 8 channels), it’s freaking perfection, it's the best audio interface by miles until wireless Dante becomes more available.Pro audio equipment rocks. (Only downside is I’m still selling off my high end ... | |
| FLAC vs WAV PS DirectStream is the one DAC that doesn’t handle input jitter at all, you will hear differences all the time with that DAC. Even $200 consumer receiver handles jitter better than the PS Audio DAC.I’m so glad I was able to get rid of it at a big ... | |
| Klipsch love them or hate them. Nah, it’s the titanium ringing, my Klipsch speaker got the new silicon horn which does help a lot with the harshness compared to older Klipsch designs.Compared to normal speakers the ringing is actually not that obvious. It’s only when compared to... | |
| Klipsch love them or hate them. Ringing adds a sparkling top, certain high frequency focused songs can sound quite good with that extra sparkle. Eg: ceui. If titanium driver is like champagne then beryllium driver is like wine. | |
| FLAC vs WAV If you can hear difference between flac and wav you need to get a properly designed DAC, eg, one with a reclocker built into it like the Emotiva DC1. Lossless is lossless, there is no difference between decoded flac and wave output other than jitt... | |
| Older 90's highly rated bookshelf vs. newer technology For new tech, look into active monitors. | |
| FLAC vs WAV No difference unless your DAC can't handle input jitter. A suprising number of snake/ I mean audiophile DAC can't handle input jitter properly. | |
| DAC vs. Preamp Emotiva DC1 is a great choice, same volume control chip as some $20,000 preamp...If money is no object, then NOS R2R + resistor ladder volume control (Eg: Goldpoint). The XLR cable also matters a lot, go with UPOCC copper wire, traditional strande... | |
| Multiple Subs - mixing models For my room, having two subwoofers turns out to be worse than just one, so it totally is up to your room. That was an expensive experience... |