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| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? Well not less than $100,000 but about 1/2 as much. I have it on direct authority from a respected reviewer that the Wilson Alexx V is better than the XVX and that he's not the only reviewer with that opinion. Perhaps alos look at the Laxia V if yo... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! I suspect many listening rooms full of crap and that look messy may actually be reasonably good audio environments. With little repeated dimensions and/or room treatment there's less likelihood of strong resonances in a room. | |
| CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE As good as the Cambridge or other drive is there is the possibility of jitter going to the DAC. I use 2 old Monarchy anti jitter devices in series(with good cables) and that seems to produce improved sound. | |
| Biamping vs only inserting an Active crossover Active biamping is the best way to do crossovers. It eliminates the reactive load of passive crossovers leaving only the inductance of the voice coils. And the crossover reactive load, depending on how well it's done, can choke an amlifier and in ... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Power is good and watts are watts, no such thing as better watts. But speakers are not resistors; they are reactive and good amp design(often great power supplies which don't show up in specs but do in sound) does matter when feeding real life loa... | |
| Low level listening Macg19. Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant is our ear's balance changes with level. The louder we listen the closer lows and highs are to the mid levels. But this doesn't imply we should listen at 100dB. But the nearest to correct balance(assuming... | |
| Low level listening Low levels will never sound right as explained by someone earlier our ear frequency response varies with level and bass and treble are softer than middle frequencies until about 100dB, certainly loud. I suspect this affect is magnified by speakers... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Cleeds, it wasn't the Absolute Sound that started subjective reviews and made low distortion less relevant. It was Gordon Holt in the 50s in a magazine now defunct I can't recall. He began talking about what he heard, not specs. It didn't go over ... | |
| Why Are We Breaking Our Brains? In wine there are accepted subjective standards developed over many years. And there are many good wines although good ones differ in taste and their positive qualities. What's different here from audio, at least given the current state of the art? | |
| What to listen for? What I primarily listen for(and you need software that has it recorded) is dynamic linearity(my handle). This is NOT dynamic range, the ability to play loud cleanly although that's a part of it. It's linear changes in level whether small.\, medium... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time Music is terribly personal. I'm not into country music but I know there are genres I like less. So I don't listen to them I had a friend, Bud Fried(Irving M Fried who was the name sake of IMF speakers and later Fried speakers. Bud only listened t... | |
| Add-Powr Power Conditioner Review Isn't this what PS Audio has been doing for over 2 decades? | |
| Who Would You Spend A Day With - Pick Two I should have gotten his name correctly whipsaw since I contacted him for a Zoom meeting with my hi fi club and he was kind enough to say yes. It was a good meeting. I've never heard his speakers and given the intelligence of their design, I expe... | |
| Who Would You Spend A Day With - Pick Two My bad whipsaw, Thanks | |
| Tube DACs Obviously if a DAC has a tube, the tube has nothing to do with digital. It is usually a cathode follower for impedance matching to the device the DAC is feeding and it's there to color the sound to be tube like(otherwise it's colored solid state l... |