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Responses from erik_squires
| Will an Auralic Vega best my Meridian 508.24 significantly? Well, i don't own a Shiit, I bought an AR DAC 8, and the Shiit to me was closest to it of the one's we listened to. I also like the Ayre DAC's a great deal. I wouldn't put too much on Stereophile's measurements. Sorry. Unless a DAC is seriously... | |
| The best separates between $2500-3000. Moving on from the original Rogue Sphinx Intg.. Oee thing about ARC, the new products don't sound much like the old one's. I like the new one's a lot, but ARC die-hards probably feel the opposite. I find the new one's clean without sounding clinical like the old equipment. I point this out in... | |
| Speaker Driver Material & The Sound of Dissimilar Materials Free, so how do you think speakers work when you get a phone call and recognize the voice, or vice versa? :) It would be pretty weird if there were vocal chords in your cell phone. Maybe you’d have to feed it to keep it working. The device in your... | |
| Will an Auralic Vega best my Meridian 508.24 significantly? I've seen DAC's with great specs be good sounding and terrible sounding. It's really nearly impossible to tell. If you can't listen before purchasing, I suggest the Shiit as one I really like but also there is also ExaSound which let you return i... | |
| Which Chip? Since the player is based on the Oppo, I would say there is a good chance it is the ESS chip. I'm not so sure, as the way the Oppo's are built, the entire output board is easily replaceable. So for instance, it would be possible to do anything ... | |
| Which Chip? By the way, you can turn the Oppo into an 8 Digital Out player as well, letting you use any choice of external DAC's with lots of options. | |
| The best separates between $2500-3000. Moving on from the original Rogue Sphinx Intg.. Audio Research, Parasound, Conrad Johnson and Cary would be on my short list, and not for sounding alike. ;) | |
| can you alter the gain of an amplifier? Whoops! Almarg is right, I was wrong. :) It's been a while since I had to do transformer math, but you got the idea. :)Best,Erik | |
| can you alter the gain of an amplifier? Well, here's a trick you may really like. Try using a 1:2 signal transformer. You can double the output voltage, while halving the input impedance though. I actually really like the sound quality, and it isolates the inputs. Jensen Transformers i... | |
| Speakers Women Like inna! I'm sorry I really don't mean to shut anyone out, but I do want to get past generalizations about women's hearing to specifics. I do remember a fellow Ayre lover, a woman, had a very very difficult time with digital sound until the Ayre QB-9... | |
| Speakers Women Like So, "my wife loves my speakers" is kind of not contributing. :) Nor is it that women have better hearing. What do women buy? That's the question, or what do they like to listen to. If they love your speakers, then what are those? :) Best,Erik | |
| Speakers Women Like Sure, it is for everyone, but what did you end up buying to listen to it? :) Best,Erik | |
| Repair Used Focal Speakers With the speaker disconnected, gently move both woofers. See if the "good" and "bad" woofer move with the same degree of freedom. If the bad one feels in any way different, then that’s your answer. Make sure your amplifier is off for this, as amps... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Wow, for some one not here to fight you type with a lot of attitude. Let me rephrase my meaning in a kinder, gentler Erik in the hopes that any attitude present on my own writing is taken away.I only meant that if you need to upgrade a source comp... | |
| Upsampling - but seriously folks DSD is another thing. The noise performance of normal DSD is normally pretty poor compared to 44/16 PCM, so it may in fact be a very good thing to do. In this case the argument is entirely about noise performance.Who can hear it and when can they... |