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| Hard Drive for Naim Atom External portable SSDs have USB input built into the drive. Look at the Samsung T7 for example. I just bought a 2TB one for FLAC files only (on a Windows laptop) and it is quite an improvement, likely due to no HDD crunching noises in the backgrou... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts Just read their review of the SMSL M500 MKIII, where they said that the XLR and USB ports are too close together and you cannot remove the right XLR cable when the USB is plugged in since spacing on the back is too tight (design flaw). Yet everyo... | |
| Is the seated-centered solo listening to music a dated tech? You can identify a number of sounds/loudspeakers greater than your number of ears. If you go to a choir, for example, you can hear many voices singing and also hear the lady talking to her husband sitting behind you. You can also hear a single voi... | |
| What is the forums opinion of SVS subs? Compare the warranties before you decide. BTW, I've owned 2 SVS subs and both were problem-free. | |
| At this level of high(er) end audio why not offer balanced connections? Increased complexity, more real estate required on the back panel and reduced profits. I would always want to pay extra and have them rather than cheap out and wish I had them. Especially since I live in a noisy situation and need long lengths o... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better Get your measurements perfect and you will have perfect sound. You will only have perfect sound when musicians play perfectly, recording and mastering engineers do a perfect job and you find perfect playback equipment, none of which will ever h... | |
| Starting from scratch in a large room I would forget about an integrated amp and instead get a preamp with dsp and a pair of large active studio monitors (use the port plugs if necessary and the controls on the back of each speaker to adjust the highs and lows and you may not even nee... | |
| Whats the weirdest concert you ever attended? Great Canadian Picnic, summer of 1980. Great Canadian Picnic Hailstorm and crazy winds in the afternoon so concert suspended for awhile due to safety. Got some acid when we went to the parking lot to ride things out. After that everything was fi... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... Also you can add all music folders (data folders + music application folders) to your antivirus exception list if you use real-time protection. You can still run scans manually when you're not playing music. | |
| KEF LS50 Speaker Stands Drivers optimally a little below ear height is what I read. I used 28" stands from Skylan. | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth I check depth with Chesky Test CD Vol 1. I don’t want any "extra" depth where it doesn’t exist on a recording. Try Track 12. https://audiophilemusic.io/portfolio/jazz-sampler-audiophile-test-vol-1/ | |
| Speakers I would contact Sonus faber and ask them. | |
| New computer won't let DAC upsample Before you even buy a certain DAC, go to the manufacturer's web site and make sure you can download the driver. | |
| Recommendations for small desktop speakers under $1500 Putting speakers on a desk goes against everything known about positioning speakers properly in a room. You only have a couple feet of positioning options to play with instead of the whole room. Plus you are putting them on a surface inherently su... | |
| Best budget USB I would recommend the Supra. I use a 5m (16.4 feet) run from computer-->DAC without any problems. I got mine off EBay from Seattle vendor. |