erik_squires
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| I suddenly have a weird buzz issue; can someone help me solve the problem? Laptop and PC power supplies are notoriously bad sources of noise in the AC line, as well as introducing ground loops including via USB. I’d pull the power out of your "clean" power section and use a USB isolator, like this one between your Mac an... | |
| Software converting PCM to DSD using DoP If you are using USB, why bother with DSD over SPDIF? You should be able to feed it native DSD. | |
| Need a modern Class A monoblock, preferably half or compact chassis I'm thinking of my friend who spent years trying to decide what motorcycle to get, without ever even getting his license. He ended up getting married and never ever getting on the road. This sounds kind of like that, only you seem to be pining ... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Asked another way, if this is a high-end speaker, then is there anything we can objectively point to besides the price tag as "high-end?" | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? PS - I should point out here that I think we sometimes make the mistake of auditioning speakers at different volumes than we actually listen to at home. If you listen loud, audition loud. Otherwise, spend most of your time listening at the volu... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @amtprod I think @audiokinesis was making some of those arguments, that some of these deep valleys may not actually be something most of us would become aware of. No, if you like the sound of speaker Y vs. X buy Y, absolutely. The one caveat i... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @deep_333 illustrates the deep, deep chasm between DIY builders and kit makers, modders vs. the high end industry writ large. "How can a speaker maker offer such poor performance for so much money" they ask, and sometimes I have trouble defendi... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Measuring per specific room is important. That gives a consumer an idea if these speakers will match his/her room. This is an area where I think Vandersteen does it exactly right. Uses an active woofer with built in EQ and a low pass filter fo... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? PS Everyone says "listen to these before you buy. My point is you may not catch these dips in a 15 minute audition. @carlsbad2 Yes, exactly. With a little experience, and a lot of misspent money/youth you’ll realize how extra-sexy speakers wh... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? I don’t think we can say much of anything about that graph, and the others presented here without knowing the level of smoothing applied to the raw data. @bruce19 True, but the problem here is that, if anything, the graph was not smoothed e... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? I think the up/down peak/dip jogs are artifacts of the enclosure design, which is apparently a transmission line/port hybrid. @audiokinesis Ahhh! Thank you, I missed that in the article. That explains why they posted the inner design of t... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? The Alta Alyssa also seems to be radically oddly designed. In the case of the Adam it's almost as if the designers have deliberately introduced some comb filtering into the frequency response, kind of a hard thing to do if you are paying even mod... | |
| Krell KAV-500 vs S-1500 5 Channel & cables OP: Well, it was just a suggestion to get you to think about the angle of the speaker to your head. Another possibility would be to put the speaker above the TV, or turn it upside down. | |
| Great network streamers with only USB outputs @ghasley - Kind of. I'd say rather that with S/PDIF: Final Jitter >= Streamer Jitter > DAC Jitter Generally speaking, the best jitter performance comes from excellent clocks which are cozied up to the DAC chip, with very short trace... | |
| Great network streamers with only USB outputs I don't know about most, but here's a good example with S/PDIF as well as USB outputs. Keep in mind that USB has better jitter and also much higher bandwidth than S/PDIF. If you are happy with your DAC and it's high rez capabilities then that sh... |