deep_333
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| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery If you just want the gist, g-slugs make any device with a fuse holder (and a SDFB upstream) produce more linear, extended frequency response that constructs a soundstage and its sonic images with greater precision and dimensionality than you curr... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables How about genuinely good well built cables from China There are very many serious audiophiles in China and they have had their own home grown brands going back to the 80s, that I know of. W.r.t the knockoffs on Aliexpress, It reeks all day of ... | |
| 1 song you never get sick of? Shabba Ranks - Slow & Sexy ft. Johnny Gill Slow & Sexy | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? For me: A balmy, early summer’s eve, My favorite chair on the back deck, A Sony Walkman CD player (used) - about $20, A pair of 30 yr. old Bose headphones - $100 (back in 1990), A six-pack of beer - about $8 including tax I had a pair of S... | |
| Upgrade from WIlson Sabrina During my backpacking days (many decades ago) in your country as a youth in search of truth, I stumbled upon a very old temple..Enormous structural stone pillars carved out of solid rock that played do re mi fa.... if you tapped on em (mind boggli... | |
| JTR RS1s (18” sealed subs) vs JL Audio E112s, (JBL 4367) The enclosures are a custom balanced force design. ? Never heard of ’force balancing’ with just the enclosure...unless you meant something else. You will need a dual opposed driver config. Examples Rythmik G22: Dual opposed 12 inch Rythmik G... | |
| speakers and cables No budget sub or expensive sub i’ve torn into has ever had anything for ’bass management’. If your sub has both speaker level in and speaker level out terminals, it is just a straight passthrough. In a hi-fi application, you don’t want to use tha... | |
| Upgrade from WIlson Sabrina In some ways, the listening position<->back wall is a more important distance than the front wall <-> speaker to create envelopment, immersion etc, which is where your 14ft is very restrictive. But, you are not alone, there are guys wi... | |
| Borreson X2 I have a X6 Pros: super resolving, clarity, quickness, dynamics, bang 4 buck Cons (relative, compared to a couple of other speakers in a similar price bracket): Instruments sound more like instruments on my Yamaha (NS5000). It doesn’t image ... | |
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| dac recommendations for turntable listener? @palutena, what you needed from day 1 was a dac or streamer with a parametric eq (PEQ) feature. Fo example, the Wiim pro plus is a 200 dollar streamer with a 10 band PEQ feature. Use it to bump up the mids, lower the highs, etc all with very wide... | |
| Ethernet cable for music streaming While some parts of the frequency range sound really good (bass, mid-bass, lower mids, e.g.), when we get to the range where vocals live and above, the sound loses fidelity and definition. Things sound fuzzy and muddled, especially if the music i... | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric Budget is $10k. See if some TAD dealer will come down a bit in price and give you a TAD d1000tx for 10k. It can also be used as a standalone end-game dac with streaming gear, i.e. try and hit additional birds with one stone. Esoteric and Luxma... | |
| Time to change Try the Sony Bravia Theater Quad with Sony’s 360 reality audio. They also sell a matching sub with it...no clutter. Andrew Robinson YT Review | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? For all those saying that you need at least 10K as an entrance fee to good sound, just keep saving and you’ll get to this range. https://futureaudiophile.com/how-many-audiophile-whales-are-there-really/ @simao, there are lot more 'unawakened' ... |