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| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? I do most of my listening at low volume levels in a nearfield setting (>12 hrs/day), so I have experience with this. A couple observations: It's true that some speakers sing better at low volume than others. I've had a run of sealed/acoustic... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? @roxy54 this made my day: "Strange use of periods." | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @ghdprentice +1 back at you. Good designers know that measurements, no matter how high tech and well-performed, fall pretty far short of investigating the subjective experience of hear audio as music. The only way they can bridge the gap is with ... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS It's not just you. Measurements have their place in designing audio gear. But on the music enjoyment front, the only test instruments that matter are ears + brain. | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room OP, I"m a broken record (jittery digital bitstream?) on this topic, but here I go again--for a problematic room like this, where no matter what you do the speakers will be near one boundary or another, you should stick to sealed/acoustic 2-ways. S... | |
| using two outputs from a dac? I have 4 DACs here. One has a single output while the others have 2 sets of outputs. Of those, two DACs are single-ended (both outputs are SE); and the third is a balanced DAC that offers both an XLR and SE output. Here’s what I’ve learned: 1 - I... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A FWIW, I have used one of Marchand Electronics’ active crossovers here in the home office for over 8 years. This unit is the XM66, which has a variable crossover frequency (user variable, no cards/"inserts" required). I can’t hear this device when... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles @snilf, I can so relate to your post! I love Part’s "Te Deum" on ECM; and I’m always stunned by people that listen to (and adore) various sub-genres of heavy metal on their pricey audio gear. I find the music heavily compressed, quite edgy, and ha... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? +1 @whart -- exactly right. No, more and more and more detail isn't good. It quickly becomes unnatural. The test is simple: 1 - Remember a time when you heard unamplified live music in a well designed acoustic space (classical in a really good ... | |
| Amp search IMHO Mr. Karston is right about this: "But here’s something to keep in mind. If you don’t have an electronic crossover, this means that all frequencies are being fed to both amps" I happen to use an electronic crossover made by Marchand Electroni... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Many years ago I had a tube amp w/8 EL34s that I had the mfr mod to allow each power tube to be triode/ultralinear switchable (Roger Mojeski's RM-9). The speakers were Vandersteen's then TOTL, the Vandersteen-4s. I greatly preferred triode mode w... | |
| Current or Previous Harbeth Owners… @akg_ca I’m not familiar with that particular sub, but I would trust anything ATC makes. I pair my 30.1s with a JLAudio e110 10" sealed sub (receives signal from a very fine electronic crossover), and it’s perfect. @dpac996, I had a modest but a... | |
| Would a DDC (Denafrips Iris) improve my system? I have 2 Matrix DDCs (one for each system in the office). Before this I used SPDIF converters for years, pretty much solely to get away from USB direct to DACs, the sonic effect of which was quite variable, depending on the DAC’s USB implementatio... | |
| Current or Previous Harbeth Owners… I read a LOT of reviews and user comments about Harbeth & Spendor before picking up a gently used pair of 30.1s. Everything good anyone said about the 30.1s is true. I can pick nits (the mid- and low-bass aren't as thunderous as some other 8" ... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? I'm only interested in NOS (non-oversampling R2R) DACs these days. I have 4 of them: 2 are always in use and 2 are always stored at backups. The best of these are the Metrum Onyx & MHDT Labs Orchid. Those 2 DACs handily illustrate a key point... |