daveyf
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| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @unreceivedogma Your proviso makes sense. Room size and room tuning are important regardless of the size of the speaker. But it is indeed all relative. Which brings me to @phusis The point you seem to be making is that a big speaker can be made... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @phusis I thought you did not care about speaker-room interaction because upstream you posted this:"brought on as the BS rationale of "fitting your speakers to the listening room size-wise." IMO, if you want to run too large a speaker into too ... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? Alex, while I agree that @phusis point about small speakers sounding small. strained and much less natural in a variety of listening spaces is a very wide and somewhat incorrect statement, I do think we have to be fair to him. Your speakers, and ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Aeries DAC comparison to current DACs IMO, some of the best DAC's from 10-15 years back can still be very worth while acquiring. I think the price asked is the general decider, since some of the DAC's like you mention can now be had for a fraction of their original price, making them ... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @phusis Personally, I would much rather hear a small speaker hampered by a large room and consequently sounding small; than a large speaker in too small a space- that totally overloads the room. YMMV. | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @phusis If you don't believe in fitting your speakers to your listening room, size-wise, you clearly have never heard a speaker that is too large for said space. There are numerous examples of less experienced a'philes trying to shoe horn a too ... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? "Big speakers, Big problems" is probably true 90+% of the time; but not always. If one has the room, the ancillary gear and the set up expertise, then they will provide a sense of scale, which IME, small speakers cannot. BUT the question is what ... | |
| SACD is VERY confusing I recently added a stand alone DAC to my Esoteric DV60 Universal player. Before, I could play back SACD’s...through the DV-60. Now I cannot play these discs as SACD's. BUT, and here’s the thing, the improvement that the DAC made to the whole SQ is... | |
| Coax SP/DIF to USB..thoughts? @soix Thanks. Looks like a good option. I suspected the Aurender would be brand specific. | |
| Coax SP/DIF to USB..thoughts? @treynolds155 Thanks again. This is really good to know. It could open up a much larger number of potential streamers for me. I was leaning towards a Aurender, but was only considering their N200 and up as they have a coax output. Now the lower mo... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? Or, you can optimize your system so that it works the best in whatever room you are working with. Instead of just plopping some over size speaker into a room and hoping it will work. Then you can 'just bang on rocks with sticks'! | |
| Coax SP/DIF to USB..thoughts? @treynolds155 Thanks. That looks like a very good option if one is using a Aurender upstream. | |
| SACD is VERY confusing @tony1954 A good question. Possibly because the old factor of....greed, got the better of them. Cut off their nose to spite their face! Not the first time a large company( ies) have done this...and won't be the last. | |
| Coax SP/DIF to USB..thoughts? If you place a great sounding streamer with a marginal DAC, you will not be that happy, OTOH, if you place a great sounding DAC with a marginal streamer, this will still be very satisfying. At the highest level, it all matters, but my ratio still ... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @kennymacc Your room is definitely on the small size, like mine. OTOH, I don't think that your Revel's qualify as large speakers. They are, at least to me, mid size. When I am talking of large speakers, I am thinking of the likes of Wilson Alexx'... |