deep_333
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| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? It is a poor idea to have the equivalent of DDC function in a separate box with a cable in between. Such function should be packaged as close as possible inside a dac directly before the conversion occurs (negligibly short signal path). In fact, a... | |
| A day in the life of an audiophile I get what you are saying. You may want to read up about the hearing condition known as hyperacusis. I could be their poster boy. Example: having to wear hearing attenuators or just basic ear plugs just to unload the dishwasher. @mwh777 . What ... | |
| colibrie I will come back in a couple of weeks with a more sober performance review . You are lacking sobriety at 12PM (time stamp above)...Hmm, that's a tad early for the cocktails, huh?.....or.... was it just the Avantgarde's sound that got you high a... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? Streamers are computers. Some brands, such as marque du jour Aurender, make a convincing effort to conceal that basic fact. And they’re right, because who wants a $14K piece of kit with a $69 motherboard at its heart? Others, like Bryston, don’t ... | |
| Open baffle speakers Danny Richie of GR Research designs and sells both OB and sealed box loudspeakers and subs (in kit form). He has used the same drivers in both applications, and makes no bones about preferring the sound the drivers make when used open baffle. Tha... | |
| Open baffle speakers Open baffle is much easier/cheaper to design/build. Even incompetent dudes with an open baffle offering can claim they are good at designing speakers. On the same note, If someone’s getting greedy/ trying to overcharge you for it (could name a fe... | |
| Cornwall IVs with Yamaha a-s1200 1200, 2200, 3200 are more tubey sounding SS amps...without sacrificing the detail lost to tubes and without the sloppy/floppy bass of tubes. (best of both worlds) Give approx. 150+ hrs of burn-in...significant sonic changes happen with burn-in o... | |
| Open baffle speakers Open baffle sonic benefits do not surpass boxed speaker designs from engineers who know their stuff. Open baffle is much easier/cheaper to design/build. Even incompetent dudes with an open baffle offering can claim they are good at designing spea... | |
| Windows Sound Basics - ASIO WASAPI etc The best results happen, ime, when a DAC manufacturer offered a dedicated ASIO driver (for Windows based PCs) with their DAC... For Linux, there are a few tweaks around..but, nothing too conclusive about what's the best thing to do/sounds the bes... | |
| Infinity RS 1B - How does the 'old dream speaker' compare to today's speakers? I have only heard the irs reference speakers modded by ps audio at the ps audio factory. Their listening room was on the small side for these speakers. If you have a large listening room, they could keep up with today’s flagship speakers or beat ... | |
| new member, some questions, need help please back in circa 1988. Got into med school, married, children, mortgage, fast cars, fine wines and, well, you know how it goes thereafter. fast forward onto the current epoch, a few lbs heavier, tinnitus in one ear and still have the bug and still c... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! @kennyc I have some combination of stereo gear that would be considered high end by this forum''s standards perhaps..I would deem it high performance more so than "high end" because "high end" could also mean trash that's just priced high some da... | |
| UPGRADE PATH FROM CHORD QUTEST DAC Schiit Yggdrasil R2R (in your budget, less than 3k). It is made in the USA, sounds better than dacs 10 times its price and happens to be manufacturer direct. The manufacturer is your dealer, i.e., you wouldn’t need another middleman in your life (... | |
| Audio Fantasies Fantasies a.k.a theorycrafting beforehand about a component, can lead to sky high expectations before you get to actually hear that speaker or other component. When it does end up not meeting such expectations during an in-person audit...you coul... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move No mention of the recent release of one of the PS Audio Aspen speakers. Worth considering. FR10 or FR20 +1 @sgordoxyz , The FR10 @ $10,000 which still gets the pm midrange would be considered high value in OP's budget. |