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| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC There is a lot of talk here about R2R w tubes and I have had both Delta Sigma and many R2R's. I have an Audio Note DAC 5 special and my wife and I am quite surprised as to how similar it is to my vinyl rig. It took a lot of learning and setup to g... | |
| All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?! We are talking new price which was 10k in 1999 vs the cost to make them today. You are off your rocker if you think they could produce that speaker for 4k today. There is at least 6K in wholesale raw drivers and caps alone. They are only cheap on... | |
| All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?! @kenjit I happen to own Apogee Divas and CS5i's although extremely modded which have a cast marble baffle. These speakers were $10k in 1999 and would easily be 40K today. There is nothing inexpensive about the way the CS5i is made nor they way Al... | |
| All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?! You do not understand the physics behind electrodynamic modeling and excitation. The higher the fundamental frequency of natural resonance that is designed for creates a point where there will never be enough input stimuli to excite it in the amou... | |
| All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?! " But you could just use concrete which isnt expensive so its still overpriced" Concrete is actually a lousy material from a time domain perspective. The goal of lightweight critically damped materials is clean rapid decay with low coloration. The... | |
| All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?! I know Alon personally and I have an engineering R&D background. We have worked on some techniques for his speakers and I can tell you this. The materials he is using are very expensive and the techniques cost a lot to implement. I prototyped ... | |
| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store I tried to nuy a used 911 turbo early this year and they wanted to run credit and get a deal hashed out before a test drive. I drove 300 miles to see the car but they do that to weed out joy rides. Is this coming to high end audio?I worked in a hi... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? In my experiences the closer it is to the source and the more reflective it is, the more it matters. It adds a bit on non specificity or for lack of a better word phase blurr ( like an out of phase tweeter) | |
| My #@%$ Cat Destroyed My ARC REF 5SE. Soliciting Suggestions. Maybe replace the ARC with a CAT. I bet the unit is worth at least $500. | |
| High Powered Holographic Amplifiers The holographic sound you referred to is from the driver tubes in the amp. I am very familiar with the characteristic. Unfortunately that is actually a non linearity from internal resonances in the driver tubes. You can actually kill a lot of that... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 FM Acoustics amps are the only ones that come to mind. Expensive as hell though. | |
| Who needs a Preamp?? I have not encountered a passive that can drive a high current amp and cables as well as a top tier preamp with a really good VC. As many have stared most commercial units use really poor quality VS's. What people do not understand is that while ... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? I have a different angle on this topic. I have the Audio Note DAC5 and have had several top DSD dacs and high rez PCM dacs in my system as well. The DAC5 is a NOS dac and can take up to 24/192 with the latest receiver chip. My finding is that on r... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load I have CS5i's and recapped the crossovers last year and made a MAJOR improvement to the driveability by going active on the subs. As part of the recap I drew out the huge crossovers and found that the 2 subs are done as augmentation woofers to 60... | |
| Best electrolytic capacitor The Epcos Sikkorel is the best outside of the unobtainable BG's to me. |