duckworp
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| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Would you mind letting us know what cables you are using and if you have any mains conditioning?I did a lot of cable testing. The two speaker cables that made a big positive difference were High Fidelity CT-1E and Townshend Fractal F1 cable. I st... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Thank you for elevating the level of "average sophistication and written-word intelligence" on this Board, granted that such is not hard to achieve. Fantastic read. Second to Prof, you describe the hard-to-describe very well and that was a fantast... | |
| Amazon just killed Tidal It is not Roon-compatible at present, nor does it work with most streamers. But that is just a matter of time. What is bad is that it is unlikely ever to work with Chromecast Audio, which is a real shame.My prediction: I think this will kill off T... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service Sadly, due to the Google vs Amazon war the neat and effective Chromecast Audio is not, nor ever will be I doubt, compatible with Amazon Music. This means it is a no-go for many users, a shame as it is £10 a month cheaper than Qobuz. | |
| Naim Audio system owners - What speakers are you using with Naim? The best system I have ever heard anywhere ever is my friend's Statement NAC S1 with three NAP 300s driving active Naim Ovator S-800 speakers. These speakers were launched not long before Focal got involved with Naim so unfortunately were soon di... | |
| Tidal - why only remastered versions? @junzhang10 Isn’t remastered sound better? MQA is also a remastered format, sound much better than original.Have a look at my post 12 posts up from here. I explain in detail why remastered is not generally better for audiophile listening, apart f... | |
| Tidal - why only remastered versions? The take home message is - don’t rely on tidal as an archival source. The same with the record labels. Maybe you guys should hold on to those old cds and records. @marklindemannExactly right. It also explains why the early CD editions of albums co... | |
| Tidal - why only remastered versions? Tidal takes a feed from the music companies. This feed will contain the entire live (ie not deleted) digital catalogue. When a remastered album is released the record label generally deletes the pre-existing version of the album. So at the p... | |
| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? I think Naim still make Active crossover electronics. They no longer manufacture the speakers to work with these units though. | |
| CD"S CDs are cheaper than ever right now so it is a great time to invest. Soon mass scale manufacturing will end and the prices on the used market will increase. In case you ever think of streaming: CDs are better than streaming since you can choose wh... | |
| WAF Speaker suggestions The European speakers with a very well-regarded sound and the non-disputed king of WAF is the Boenicke. I am not sure whether they appear on the second hand US market but if they did the W5 or W8 model might reach your budget. Don’t be put off by ... | |
| Streamer choices I think you will find the biggest difference will be moving from Spotify to Qobuz or Tidal. In my experience the CD quality, and higher, of these services will yield a far bigger improvement to the sound than improving the streamer/DAC.At 320kbs S... | |
| Innuos Statement Review Thanks for your excellent review. I very much appreciate it when people go to such an effort to listen to and review their experiences. You certainly do not need to do a double blind test for your review to have validity.Thanks again, and I look ... | |
| Streaming vs. CD I have spent some time getting Qobuz and Tidal to sound as good as my high-end CD transport. To start with CD was much better. Now there is nothing in it. It took some time and each of these changes made an improvement:- turning WiFi and Blueto... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement In the UK many of us live in older houses which have suspended wooden floors. In these houses bass vibration is a real problem. The solution is:1. Put your speakers onto cheap granite/stone slabs. I use two cheap kitchen counter top chopping board... |