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| All in one streamer for parents in their 70s Get them a couple of Amazon echo smart speakers. Friend of mine got his parents one and they love it. If they like classical music they can simply say Alexa play classical or Mozart, if the like country just say country or name the band or artist ... | |
| Unbelievable All six external surfaces of the enclosure have a glossy black piano finish created using the same dedicated paint, primer, and polishing processes used for Yamaha’s renowned grand pianos. The uniform and hard membrane further increases the overal... | |
| Low volume listening dynamics superultramega, you're not confused the most effective way to improve low level listening is loudness compensation. The first watt the last watt the watts in between can't change the way our ears work. | |
| Bookshelf Speakers for Large Room Look at Joseph audio Pulsars.http://www.josephaudio.com/pulsar | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? Toole didn't throw up his hands in defeat to him the answer was in equalization. I also agree with his assessment that to much absorption leads to an acoustical dead room like a studio, reflections aren't all bad and the lower 300-500 hz is where ... | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? Good article on speakers by Floyd Toole, close to the end there’s a section how to get great sound from a single subwoofer. As long as you’re only interested in one listening position. https://www.harman.com/Documents/AudioScience_0.pdf | |
| Adding a Cisco Gigabit Switch Are you having a problem with noise? Have you narrowed it down to the streamer if you are? Couldn't be from something else? | |
| streaming with benchmark2-dx DAC - problem - no signal to preamp Seems strange it does the same thing with two different DACs and the headphones work. The signal is getting to the DAC and the headphone amp works, CD players work the only thing I can think of is some kind of software incapatability sending the s... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science Wormtosser, Did you read through that thread? The "test" mode had more distortion, when the distortion compensation was turned off some of the numbers were better than the test mode. They couldn't figure out what was going on since it looked like... | |
| Is there any streamer/integrated competitor to NAD C-388 w/BluOS2i MDC? I see you wanted a streamer as well. I connect a raspberry pi4 as a roon bridge to USB on the Anthem. | |
| Is there any streamer/integrated competitor to NAD C-388 w/BluOS2i MDC? I have the Anthem STR integrated what was missing that you wanted? | |
| Low volume listening dynamics RME ADI-2 DAC has dynamic loudness compensation for low volume listening. | |
| streaming with benchmark2-dx DAC - problem - no signal to preamp Have you tried using different analog outputs? I notice it has 3 outputs XLR main RCA main and RCA aux. Seems strange it does the same thing with 2 different DACs have you tried a different preamp or bypassing the preamp and connecting to an amp ... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science Ive seen it used in consumer product research and marketing very heavily especially food and drink. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter how good you design cola to taste some folks are always going to prefer Pepsi over Coke because it is a... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science this is not a science project.As far as sound reproduction it pretty much is science. Science doesn't assist without science the jewelry you're playing that "art" on wouldn't exist. |