deep_333
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| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» He is wrong about a few things. The 'bullsh' 'cheap' headphones actually sound pretty good these days. I am shocked by what I hear from a cheap pair of hifiman headphones these days. My area has lots of 'younger' hometheater dudes, diy'ing thei... | |
| I often notice that people who have open reel decks and/or tube equipment are nicest @larryi Most probably, never ever stop by the creepy reel to reel dude's house to buy any gear. He'll probably have it priced low to attract dozens of suckers. When you do show up, he might just boil you in his serial boiling cauldron along with ... | |
| LoFi @rvpiano If you are already heavily invested in conventional 2 channel hifi, conduct an experiment...which is moving yourself closer into nearfield 4, 5 or 6ft from speakers and adjust toe-in. Determine if some additional level of envelopment/imme... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. Huh, what? He needs to buy used with 20k for max value?? What?? Speaker: Tekton Epic 15 ($2400, new, made in the USA) Subwoofer: Tekton Cinema Sub ($1050 new) Amp: Schiit Freya+ tube preamp ($1000 new) + Schiit Wotan poweramp ($2000 new, mad... | |
| Am i sitting too close to the Center Channel? (around 3 feet) Center’s placed too low. Center should be identical to fronts. Disable center channel and just use the 2 Fronts and Surrounds. The phantom center provided by the fronts should be fine for a single listening position such as yours. | |
| LoFi I don’t think OP’s issue is low-fi vs hi-fi. It is the wrong approach of hifi, which focuses on some soundstage, separation and how things are spread out in it, pinpointing whatever. It makes an analytical mind go crazy, takes you out the music. ... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. Huh, What?? Harbeth is not a musician’s speaker. This is a musician’s speaker, made by the guys who made all the musical instruments. Harbeth knows something these guys didn’t? or what? I noticed HARBETH as a recommendation. HARBETH is ve... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. Returning to a hobby I abandoned two decades ago as life interfered with my personal desires. I am currently drifting between horns or BBC sound. Two different worlds, but each intrigue me. Considering Volti Audio with Cary SLI80 Integrated whil... | |
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? This may be the time to drop the audiophile purity listening (Diana Krall on repeat @ 55 db) and go watch live shows....Orchestra, dance companies (ballet, modern, jazz dancin), rock bands, night clubs..watch that dj do you with some Chicago hous... | |
| LoFi Get a pair of Sony's 360 reality headphones. It is more enjoyable than all this hifi crap somedays. Or Temu sells some in-ears for 20 bucks that are kinda jawdropping (shop like a billionaire....i always knew there was a billionaire in ya). | |
| New HT/2CH room Set up on 16 ft long wall. 5 ft behind you, 4 ft behind speakers 7ft speakers to listening position Drop from 7.1 to 5.1 with side surrounds at 110 degrees. | |
| MoFi Sourcepoint 888 Speakers Try and find this much engineering effort sunk into a 5k floorstander by a guy elsewhere... Andrew Jones discussion - Mofi 888 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9nV7J0MTFk Andrew Jones discussion - Elac Adante (scroll over to 8:00) https://www.... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? For high fidelity purposes, Line stage, dac’s output stage, phono stage should all be in one box on its own with very short internal signal paths and no cables. Power amp should be in a separate box on its own, i.e., if executed well, 2 boxes sho... | |
| Power Amp or DAC - weakest link, help please? Such changes can't be tweaked with a dac or amp. Sell your scrawny li'l audiophysic ('lifestyle' WAF compromised speaker) and get this fat boy. It is called a Epic 15 by Tekton ($2200) and will run over your audiophysic like a mack truck. I'd... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. There are certain amps (i have a couple) that can make any turd of a speaker sound ok. At what point is it the speaker's magic on its own? Or at what point is it just getting carried by a very high quality front end? Its funny - I’ve read t... |