georgehifi
Responses from georgehifi
| Balancing sound to sharpen dialogue? The Totems are really warm and have surprising bass depth, but when watching movies, dialogue never sounds as sharp as it should.You’ve just got fat lower mids, which takes away from the diction of the speech. Use the audio or bass/treble adjustme... | |
| Deja Vu all over again Remasters are often crunched, but sometimes they get it right.Yes they usually are, very rarely they leave it alone, nearly always the later ones/re-issues are "dynamically crunched", great term btw, better than just saying compressed, it’s got mo... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... Ric specifically states that increasing the input impedance to 150K ohms sounds "way better." That's furphy.That is only true if it's input impedance was <10kohm and when if what's driving it, has a "high'ish >1kohm" output impedance, lik... | |
| Fuse Upgrade to Ceramic not glass Normally fast blow are used on the rails where they need to blow FAST in case of a problem.DC rail fuses are next to useless and add resistance and sometimes "bad contact" to the dc line, if either blow, it’s catastrophic for the output stage anyw... | |
| Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage Try the same recording with headphones, see if it happens.Cheers George | |
| Deja Vu all over again The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young remastered album is available on Qobuz for streaming at 192kHz 24bit. It sounds great. Pity it’s said it’s compressed, compared to the original masters. The first 16/44 issues are the best of the digital releases... | |
| MSB Discrete vs. Bricasti M1 SE MSB is all discrete R2R ladder dacs, perfect for doing PCM, RedBook 16/44, 24/96 or DXD The Bricasti has an old 2002 vintage AD1955 hybrid chip, (not discrete) part delta sigma part multibit, designed for sacd primarily in the day. If your going t... | |
| CD v Streamed They have magic electricity over there that turns compression and brickwalling into stunning detail and clarity unavailable elsewhere Jersey City, I heard that also, maybe the "Dynamic Range Data Base" site should only accept comparisons of the s... | |
| Cut lower frequency to help my bookshelf speakers so im thinking to add a dsp or eq to cut the lower frequncies before they reach the dynaudioMore electronics just sterilizes the sound, just plug up the port on the 25’s to raise it’s bass roll off an octave and drive it direct from the amp, and b... | |
| CD v Streamed Here is Stereophile's music writer/reviewer (Tom Fine) that also believes what I been saying about the best CD's being the first release issues being uncompressed and sounding the best, and the later issues being "crunched dynamically" and says it... | |
| CD v Streamed mofojoThere’s another thread on this, just look for the "CD vs.same CD ripped to HD" title thread posted yesterday.Cheers George | |
| CD vs.same CD ripped to HD A ripped CD to a HD has just as many read errors as the cd had, as it’s the CD transport/player that uses it’s error correction to correct the bit error reads, and inserts a 1 or 0 in place of the error, which is has a 50% chance of getting it cor... | |
| Technics SU-R1000 a new Class-D GaN Technology integrated I found it quite good for a video review. The real test will come with a Strereophile review and bench testing which will give the best insight into this very advanced designed Class-D amp that uses the newest GaN Technology.Cheers George | |
| Technics SU-R1000 a new Class-D GaN Technology integrated Here’s another video review on the "GaN Technology" Technics SU-R1000 vs the NAD Master Series M33 (which uses the Hypex N-Core class-D modules) Seems they both prefer the Technics SU-R1000 in the upper mids highs range. This "could be" because o... | |
| A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport George, yes nice link to transport use! Thanks. It's also good for seeing what d/a chips are used Cheers George |