diamonddupree
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| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? Without a doubt powered subwoofers, ideally with room correction. I use a JL Audio F110. You could probably use two of those, or even two F112s in your room and hear a huge improvement. Also room treatments. | |
| Neil Young calls out Tidal It's misleading to say Tidal is charging a premium for Masters or MQA. The premium service is for lossless (non-compressed) streaming, which includes MQA when it's available. I've been paying for the premium service since before MQA was available ... | |
| If you stream music from the internet, I can't recommend this more highly @agillis, to enjoy the benefits of fiber optic isolation, it looks like you need both an opticalModule and fiber ethernet converter. But in some of the other threads I've read about your product (Roon community), people suggest using two opticalMo... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs @erik_squires yes, definitely. I don’t hear the amp straining at higher decibels anymore. I think a combination of the 7” drivers not having to go so low and the extra headroom from the amp not having to drive as low cleaned up the distortion. Ver... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs Go with the F110, one will be fine. I have a single F110 in a smallish listening room and it's more than enough bass. I know you said you wanted to set aside DARO but let me tell you that the room correction in the F110 is one of the primary reaso... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? @yyzsantabarbara a second AHB might not even do it. There's a pair of Belo Canto Ref 1000s available right here on Agon I think for less than $2k. | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? @yyzsantabarbara Thiel says those speakers, though rated at 4ohm, will go down to 2.8. With recommended power at 100w - 600w, I bet they spend a fair amount of time at or near 2.8. The AHB puts out 190 @ 4ohm, 240 @ 3ohm. I'm still learning here b... | |
| Is the Mytek Brooklyn Bridge or Lumin D2 good buys in 2021? @helloitsben, re: Roon, it runs on top of Tidal. I am a longtime Tidal user and still love the service. But run Roon on top of it and you’ll rarely ever find a need to use the Tidal app again. I use a LUMIN U2 mini as a streamer and a Brooklyn DAC... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Thanks for all the crossover recommendations. I've bookmarked all of them. And thanks @noble100 for the Toole link. One thing I've noticed in reading his book and even in his posts is that his observations are for multi-seat listening. In the book... | |
| Openning a hi fi shop First off, I would allow drunk people to rent out the showroom on weekends. I would also run a "hardware as a service" model where the customer doesn't actually own any of the gear but for a monthly subscription price they can swap out gear upon r... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Actually @audiorusty, I think the DBX would work. I could run XLRs from the DAC to the XLR inputs and run all XLRs out to my amp and sub. Thanks, this may be a better analog option instead of the DSP. | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? @yyzsantabarbara this goes back to my original question which is why does Floyd Toole, who obviously knows a few things, discount the value of headroom? It seems to help in so many scenarios but unfortunately, he doesn’t elaborate on it. LMK how t... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Thanks @audiorusty, there seems to be no shortage of RCA crossovers and XLR crossovers but not many that have both. The only ones I've found are by JL Audio and SPL and both are fairly pricey. The DBX seems to be XLR only unless there's one I'm mi... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? @erik_squires another cheap option?https://www.hlabs.com/products/crossovers/Inline RCA active crossover? They make high pass filters for 70hz and 100hz. Any reason why these wouldn’t work? | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? @erik_squires the day I try to install that is the last day my amp would ever work. MiniDSP comes tomorrow. I have no idea what to expect. Should be interesting. |