hifidream
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| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. I agree that DACs have advanced to a point that the only real issue is the recording. . . I feel we’ve stepped into a realm where mysticism often masquerades as truth and there aren’t enough of us that can push the recording industry to do the rig... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? You can see what the problems are with a computer, USB Mic, and Room EQ Wizard. I think your suspicions may be correct and you have room nodes. You’ll need a few subs and can use Multi Sub Optimizer to crank out some new crossovers that will corre... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? I’ve seen it said before in the forum that Audiophiles enjoy listening to the way their equipment sounds more than listening to music. . . Just look at all the discussions on synergizing equipment. I have been happy to see more threads pop up spea... | |
| Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker That’s so scary Kijanki, I too hope it comes back. Love all your knowledge that you all have been speaking to. When building my system I considered more Benchmark amps and read a lot of discussion similar to your thread so I bought two and thought... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Newbee mentioned Bob Carver . . . that he tried it and was initially impressed but found it distracting over time. | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? No one wants a strange disembodied image. The goal is to be transported to the venue. . . Yes this is very much affected by sound engineers and the way they mic and mix the music. This is why you will find that recordings made and mixed by a perso... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Hearing a live performance through speakers has always been the goal and what attracted me to the hobby when I first heard a high end system at the Sony Center in Berlin as a kid. I played second bassoon in the Wisconsin Youth Orchestra for awhile... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? Awesome. I’ve had to buy a PS audio P15 due to a lightening strike and it’s msde a big difference in the system. Just did room correction in my new place last week and the results are amazing. The dog is fooled regularly now that there are people,... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. The car is a Kia Sorento. We only have 50k miles on it so hoping not too much damage was done. I was able to fix my Lumagen video processor as I saw that the damage from the lightning burned a trace on the output board and the sound still worked o... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. My wife’s car was actually down the street at the stoplight and the pole was hit by lightening (same storm that hit my stuff). The EMP stopped the car in its tracks. It wouldn’t start for a few minutes and then fired right up and she was on her wa... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? Congrats. It’s such a reward when you can get things to mesh! Are you still liking the SVS? Had time to play with any room nodes? | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Get four subs and use Room EQ Wizard (free) but extremely powerful, put those measurements into Multi-Sub Optimizer (free) amazing you can see the graph improving as the program creates filters, which crunches the numbers and builds the filters I ... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. Great experimenting! In my first old apartment in Chicago that had steam heat I couldn’t even listen to my music through the electrical grid hiss or watch my projector because of the pulsing image. It was at that point I realized how important cle... | |
| Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better sounding amp period, much less for the money. I auditioned a number of amps through my dealer who had 20.1s in a show room with various amp configurations over the years including some uber expensive ... | |
| Mac Mini as a music server I love my Mac Mini as a server. . . I use JRiver as my backbone and take advantage of the optical out of the headphone jack directly into my Mini DSP. I opted for an older model 2.6GHz i7 Quad Core 16GB RAM and upgraded the drives to super quiet a... |