james63
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| Zu Omens Vs Dali Vs Vandersteen Vs Sonus Faber Not the Omen but the Essence was measured by Stereophile (link below) and they are by far the worst measuring speaker I have ever seen them measure. I have never heard anything by Zu, just read the reviews..."In many ways, the Zu Essence is an und... | |
| PMC EB1i v. Thiel CS3.7 v. Pioneer S1-EX v. ??? "I definitely plan to listen to the 3.7, though my wife thinks they're odd looking.:)"They look pretty "normal" with the grills on and have an elegant shape in person. The shape make them seem smaller than they are... | |
| PMC EB1i v. Thiel CS3.7 v. Pioneer S1-EX v. ??? I was going to post but Cmalak summed up my thoughts already. I also am not sure why thiel gets a bad rap for their bass. I have always found there bass to be exceptional but your room is pretty big.I imagine some of the negative bass comments com... | |
| Paradigm Studio 20 v2 vs Klipsch RB-61 Some background:I have not heard the Studio 20 but heard a lot of Paradigms (small book shelfs through the S8) and have heard the RB-61s number of times. I have directly compared some Paradigms and Klipsch speakers back to back. I was helping a fr... | |
| Quads 57 - "Music sounds good, but no soul"Can you tell me what soul is to you? When I think of electrostatics "soul" is not the word that comes to mind. I also have had B&Ws and moved on because the mids had an odd coloration to them and the bass was la... | |
| New 2011 Sonus Faber Speakers? Cmalak, It the Amati Futura also has a mini site, they look great!. I believe they are 35k :(.http://www.sonusfaber.com/futuraamati/en/ | |
| XLR to RCA output conversion on Benchmark DAC1 Have have used the blanced to RCA and RCA to RCA on my DAC1-HDR and they sounded about the same. The blanced has some adjustability and is what I would recomend for the mains. | |
| Bryston BDA-1 used V/S Wyred 4 Sound DAC 2 Restock,Fair enough both sort of sucked with USB. I just don't see why people go though all the effort to use USB. There are a lot more options if you use one of the other digital conections. Not to mention that optical electrically seperates the ... | |
| Apple to download 24 bit in iTunes? I ment DRM digital rights management. | |
| Apple to download 24 bit in iTunes? Yeah I don't care why they are pushing 24 bit (we all know why...). In reality 24 bit may not sound any different than well recoded red book but at least if it is 24 bit maybe they will not screw up the recording and the loudness wars of popular m... | |
| Apple to download 24 bit in iTunes? "The author Tom Davenport is a recording engineer and writer from the farmlands of England,"Reading the gizmoto artical Tom Davenport is and idiot. Anyone with a real system can clearly hear how much better 24/96 files are when they are recorded w... | |
| Bryston BDA-1 used V/S Wyred 4 Sound DAC 2 "Maybe the Benchmark has a much better optical input than my dac."This is possible and I will not argue with what you heard, you heard it not me. I actually have both connections (USB/toslink) hooked up and can switch between the two from my chair... | |
| Halide Design - MF X-DAC v3, vs Benchmark DAC? I saw you have not tried your A5's DAC yet. Give that a go and upgrade if you want later. Benchmark has a 30 day trial... No harm trying it. I am sure others do too. | |
| Halide Design - MF X-DAC v3, vs Benchmark DAC? The beauty of the apple is it has a toslink out and it will sound MUCH better than USB (more air, detail, bass depth, less bright). I tried a bunch and ended up with the benchmark DAC-HDR and a mac mini using plain old toslnk. Don't forget to get ... | |
| New DAC or Speakers? What will put airy-ness in? Don't wast money on a DAC. B&Ws have a house sound IMO and I bet you miss it. Try a used pair of B&Ws. What is your budget?The 703 is a newer model of what you had. The 804 would be a lot better or even the 805s if you like monitors. |