douglas_schroeder
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| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? FYI, there is another method to use a DAC direct to amp which involves software attenuation. If you have a music service such as ROON, you can use the software volume control in the media controller to raise or lower the volume, allowing a similar... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? djones51, you said, "You take those top 20 DACs from the $199 Modius to the $ 11,000 Mola Mola and noone except perhaps a few young people with extraordinary hearing could tell one from the other." Please provide data for support of that comment. | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? Thank you, high-amp. | |
| Will upgrading Umbilical cord power supply to preamp improve sonics Yes, umbilicals pass the Law of Efficacy; it is easy to hear how they impact/improve a power supply. Do not neglect working with the power cord feeding the power supply, as this, too, influences the result. I do not find that the umbilical has amo... | |
| Are all Audiophiles masocists? Does doing what you enjoy immensely often make you a masochist? Depends, I suspect. Obsessing about, changing systems is no more a "problem" in audiophilia than someone obsessing about collecting media. Mediaphilia, imo, can be as aberrant as obse... | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? simao, have you heard of the "Pathi"; two units in Mono mode? If you love one, you will adore two. I reviewed a few iterations of the Classic One for Dagogo.com, and always had two units to run them Mono integrated, as splendid setup. | |
| Turned Off My Subwoofer ... And My Speakers Sound Great Actually, you don't have a problem. A problem is when you can't fix it, or have to fundamentally disrupt the experience. You very likely do not need new subs, or an array. You haven't even tried reconfiguring it yet, so the suggestions to move to ... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Apologies given, apologies accepted. I get a bit gruff on the topic at times. That's usually an indicator for me to step away from the forum for a while. | |
| Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker bdp24, no, not intended to be a comment in regard to Danny R. at all! I rather enjoy his creativity and prowess at speaker design. I was commenting on the proclivity of some (which you will notice, if you observe) to go for the theorized "perfect"... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? And now, let’s take a look at my comment in context, shall we? Here it is:ALL genres of music sound superior on a superb system. As a reviewer I use many genres of music, some which I do not care to hear regularly. These are valuable to assess the... | |
| Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker What's ironic is all the hand wringing about design, then using the equivalent of lamp cord for the driver's, or worse, for speaker cables too. Talk about a losing proposition. | |
| Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker How can the LInkwitz be the perfect speaker, when the Vandersteen (time aligned) is, er... the Magnepan (panel) is, er... the (insert favorite value speaker here) is! ;) It's very important for the audiophile to think they have found the perfect... | |
| All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?.. Game changer is a relatively meaningless phrase. I deal with "game changers " every month. The Pass XA200.8 Monos are game changers, as are the cables now under review. A DAC I am assessing is a "game changer", too. That Integrated may be excellen... | |
| What other hobby... Infinite? That's a pretty big concept. What hobbies have "infinite" variables? None, and imo not even close. I believe we are on the very, very low side of "infinite" variables (unless one wishes to play fantasy games intellectually). Of course, I... | |
| Room temperature and audio fidelity. None of these conditions affect humans, of course, because audiophiles must have immaculate hearing. |