henry53
Responses from henry53
| Integrated upgrade recomendations The Sprout is bright and the Wharfedale's are dull. If you are keeping one as part of any future upgrade path then bear in mind you like the current sound. If you replace one of them, do so with the same characteristics. If you believe you will u... | |
| Can recommend some non-fatigue SMALL bookshelf for near-field listening? Depends on budget, so lets try of this mentioned: Elac 2.0/6.2b Kef LS 50 Vienna Acoustics Hayden Harbeth (any you can afford). Others Wharfedale and Monitor Audio, all too dull. Focal, Klipsch, B+W all too bright. I have three pairs of Aud... | |
| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? It is clear that Klipsch are special, you either love them or not, I'm a definite not despite trying to do so for 50 years. | |
| Room Treaments - Where To Begin... I am an engineer with experience in acoustics, though mostly in the field of explosives (don't ask or ----). Equalizers or DSP do not solve your room problems, altering your room solves or helps with your room problems. The first question is what... | |
| HELP - Subwoofer placement I use 2 DefTech Supercube 4000's, they are good for music very quick. I tried 2 x SVS for lots more money but no noticeable difference. I mount them on bookshelf speaker stands for a much better balance than on the floor. You can feel them slight... | |
| CDP or Transport and DAC? Recomendations? I have an Audiolab 6000CDT with Denafrips Ares 2, could not be happier. Tried many combinations, most much more expensive, none were better. | |
| Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money? As I quoted early one well known test based forum recently totally destroyed the new Bluesound Node, a product that in its various guises is owned and enjoyed by many. Interestingly the 'tester' never listened to the item merely based the finding... | |
| Introspective of this forum: "Does the Audiophile Community Have a Promlem?" I Say yes!!! I read an extremely detailed review of the new Bluesound Node 2021this week, it was lambasted. Seemingly everything was totally wrong with it? Interestingly for a product designed, built and sold to solely reproduce music there was no mention of ... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition Vincent SA 31MK, just superseded by the SA 32. Both are good. MK is class A. | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? When you buy them what are you going to do with them. Listen to them. I therefore suggest you listen to them. Specifications are very unlikely to tell you what they sound like, even if they are an honest and accurate presentation, which many spe... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment Built two very large bass traps and got rid of an awful bass resonance at 60Hz. They are massive however, 1.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 metres. | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? This site is dedicated to hifi measurement. Saying that it appears odd that many responders claim there is no difference between say a $5 dac and a $5000 dac. Clearly in these tests your average cheap dac measures differently to an expensive dac, ... | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? You can buy a dac for $20. Many of the dacs built into some integrated amps probably only cost $20, can you hear a difference to a $1000 purpose built dac with separate linear power supply? If you cannot get a new hobby. | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? Do you have a suite of measurements that removes all shadow of a doubt that you are getting good sound, sound that you enjoy? Definitely no. What sounds good to you may sound terrible to others, therefore if we measure what you believe is fantasti... | |
| A decent integrated amp under 2K ... Another vote for Vincent, I have the SA 31 MK / Sp 331 MK pre power amps but the integrated's are also very nice. |