david_ten
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| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @gdhal Hal, Thanks for sharing the link and bringing it to our attention.Do you have a feel for the performance of your Yggy with the B analog board, now that you have had some more time with it? Thank you. | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... ....without collateral damage to manufacturers due to misperceptions on the part of the audiophile community.’Misperceptions on the part of the audiophile community’ are clearly (my opinion) a large part of what drives and sustains this community ... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... @douglas_schroeder and @prof Good discussion and points. Thank you.Based on what Doug has said, it appears that his position is an informed one...but ultimately opinion, which of course may be correct.Doug, I embrace and value your audio credenti... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @laaudionut Looking forward to your take once you have a few more hours on Aric's Motherlode!@djtunes Not sure what you mean by "Well, it's a year out..." ??? Thanks. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @corelli I've had Yo-Yo Ma's Inspired By Bach : The Cello Suites in rotation of late...I'll pull up the Vivaldi Cello Concerts.Right now I'm flying with Rudresh Mahanthappa's 'Bird Calls' - Fabulously fleshed out and rendered by the SEs.It might... | |
| How to "mount" acoustic foam ? @gdhal Hal, you may want to pay attention to what @folkfreak and @geoffkait are saying regarding this. | |
| Home audio system recommendations Tone is the utmost importance for me and if I can't get the windows in the house to rattle with each kick drum beat while the system is delivering clear, warm and intelligible mids and crystalline highs for that little touch of sugar I might as we... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Came across this recent review of the Valvet E2 (link posted below).I've posted the link because it is a low power Class A Solid State amplifier that may be a pairing to consider with the Double Impacts. It is also 'reasonably' priced for a Class ... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... I have found no direct correlation between appearance/aesthetics and sound quality. @douglas_schroeder Doug, has this been formally evaluated by you or your colleagues at Dagogo? If so, it is a very interesting finding. The choices and reasons f... | |
| Will I benefit from a new DAC that can upscale to 192 I'd focus less on upsampling (at this point in your journey) and more on getting the most you can out of your system for Redbook level files. Nail that and then move forward. | |
| Shunyata or Synergistic for power conditioning? Are you a Happy Audiophile?I'm Tone Deaf. On the Take. And Gullible Beyond Belief. Basically a Sorry Audiophile Mess. : ) | |
| Waiting on 802D3 to arrive -- Will I need a sub? I’ve read through all 52 posts and I believe that there has not been a single mention or query of/regarding the type of music and the music genres the OP listens to.I don’t have a pro- nor a no- sub position. Asking for general educational informa... | |
| Integrated or Receiver? Throwing this suggestion into the mix, as I don't believe it has been mentioned: Peachtree | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I do feel that there’s an overemphasis placed on speakers in audiophile threads/discussions at times. Obvious each link of the audio chain matters. If I had to choose one or the other, I’d select great electronics with "good" speakers rather than... | |
| What would you choose for about $1k, ZU DW, SVS Ultra bookshelf or Tekton Lore? @nietzsche007 Congratulations on your choice. And thanks for keeping us updated as well as providing your rationale and thinking. Very helpful. Looking forward to hearing how the Omens work out! |