jastralfu
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| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference I’ve had a similar experience, although not with components that are as expensive. My current setup of a MacBook Pro streaming via Tidal or Qobuz native apps into a Denafrips Hermes and Pontus II sounds better than the HiFi Rose 250a they replace... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? I have two REL T/5x subs I just purchased. I also have a small listening space (12x9 or something close to that). They were easy to integrate and they make everything sound so much better. Soundstage, imaging, musicality, all better, not to mentio... | |
| Little help with REL subwoofers, please? @m-db it surprised me to be honest. I figured it would measure better than the specs, just cause my room tends toward bass heavy, but not as low as it did. Tbh, I don’t know how accurate the measurements are but they seem to be consistent. | |
| Little help with REL subwoofers, please? I don't know how small your space is, but mine is small (12x10) and I just put in two REL T/5x subs. They were easy to integrate with the Neutrik Speakon connectors. They move enough air to shake the floor and my listening chair when I turn it u... | |
| Why Music Is Good For The Brain Interesting article. Music makes me feel happy, sad and everything in between! Nothing better than listening to a song I’ve heard many times and hearing some new nuance that I had never noticed before. | |
| Subwoofer Run the left line of the y cable to the left sub, the right line to the right sub. | |
| Subwoofer If it’s the true subwoofer junior you also have speaker level inputs and can connect directly to those using the left speaker level input on both subs. So right speaker output from source to left speaker input on right sub and left speaker output... | |
| Hermes DDC + Wandla DAC Sorry just reread your post and saw that you did cycle through the Hermes pin settings. Can you cycle thru the Wandla pin settings? In the video I attached above Alvin said something about some hdmi cables not working at all with the Denafrips a... | |
| Hermes DDC + Wandla DAC You might need to cycle through the I2S pin settings. See if this helps: https://www.denafrips.com/config-i2s | |
| Aurender N150 vs N200 @lalitk I would think about picking that one up myself if it was in black! | |
| Aurender N150 vs N200 With the level of components you have I would get the N200 and upgrade the DAC to a similar level. The Pontus II is a great DAC (I have one with a Hermes DDC) but I believe @audphile1 and @lalitk are correct about it being a bottleneck relative t... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? Most dealers are like audiophiles here with 40 amplifiers behind them and 50 dac and as much speakers experience , they know the gear , but they dont know much about the importance of acoustics ( i dont spoke about a few panels here ) and about e... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? The "dealer" would rarely tell you that...he may be all about "matching" expensive crap with other expensive crap and constantly capitalizing on the poor dude’s constant disgruntlement. @deep_333 i have a hard time believing this. I’m sure th... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? I don’t think anyone here has stated that anything matters more than the room. What do you do when you can’t do anything about the room or very little or there are things you can do nothing about? Getting another room is likely not a solution fo... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? @mihorn I agree the room matters a great deal and I don't mean for this discussion to devolve into whether or not it does, just that some folks can't do a lot about fixing it. The OP is one of those who cannot. @calvinj My room is not optimal ... |