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Responses from erik_squires
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Be sure you ask Lee for advice before you buy your crossover. He knows his stuff inside and out. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Listening to lots of acoustic live music gives the best benchmark for building an audio system. If that's what you want to reproduce. Accuracy is not the goal for every audiophile. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Conversely, hearing what reviewers claim is "the best" which costs a million dollars, and knowing your are happier with your system that was quite affordable can certainly make you an insufferably smug bastard. That's pretty much what happened to ... | |
| Best receiver/amp for warming up Monitor Audio Gold 300’s Arcam | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? Important to note that a lot of SACD's aren't just re-issues, they are completely remastered. Listen to the one that sounds best to you, but we can't judge the relative encoding merits with those. | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? Yep. If it says "Compact Disc Digital Audio" it is one and only one thing: Redbook, which is PCM at 44.1kHz / 16 bits.There’s no correlation in my mind between the encoding method and DAC reproduction or sound quality. I will say that over the pas... | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money I built my own out of solid silver cables with silver plated XLR connectors and never looked back. https://www.partsconnexion.com/CONNEX-66070.htmlI mean, yes, I could play the cable game, or I could be satisfied with something that sounds great, ... | |
| Room treatment and speaker placement???? Yep. And most advice on the net is poor. There is way too much about first reflection points, and not enough about overall reverberation and bass management. My cheap advice: throw some pillows and blankets on the floor. In between the speakers, a... | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? I should also point out, as far as I know, the only legal way to go from a SACD player to an external DAC is via HDMI for use with multi-channel DAC/processors. Even ripping SACD’s is difficult due to copyright fears.There are however boutique mus... | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? Hi Cheeg,If it says "compact disc digital audio", then it is always PCM:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_AudioIf it says SACD then it is DSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CDCD, being older, has very limited space, ab... | |
| Another Speaker Recommendation Request Thanks @brownsfan A well treated room will host more speakers better. Also, sub integration is critical. Well done, a satellite + sub combination will outperform most floor standers at any price. However, floor standers with limited bass response ... | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? Mytek Manhattan - But I think they are currently pretty much out of stock. Not sure what the output stages are, but they sound great. :) | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? I think listening to a variety of things and understanding what bring you pleasure is important. I’m not really interested in what others may claim is best. Peace,E | |
| Ayre <--> Parasound <--> Pass : where are you? Yep. I'm listening to Class D right now. Of the brands mentioned, I'd only move to Ayre if I had the money. If I had to consolidate even further, I might go with an Arcam integrated. :) Best,E | |
| Monitor Audio Pl 300ii vs. KEF Reference 5 If Tru Fi was that great, it wouldn't need so much PR. Best,E |