kevn
Responses from kevn
| The Disappearing Act @lalitk - there were increasing levels of disappearance over the course of building my system, but the biggest jumps happened with 1.open baffle speakers with their field coil drivers; 2.combination of replacing the fuse of the external power supp... | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS @kjl1065 - I believe the only speaker type that would fit your bill will be a one driven my electromagnets - ie: field coil driver/s. Thing is, these don’t come cheap and to fit within your budget might take a little more than 15k brand new, altho... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @mapman - I’ve found that anything that sounds unnaturally bright or fatiguing is not detail, it’s distortion. Systems that do that are not detailed, they just haven’t reduced degradation of the original signal sufficiently to pass muster. A tr... | |
| Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer? @dunkin - I’m not sure if your question as to why so many were suggesting you switch to tidal or qobuz when all you were asking about was how a better streamer might give you better sound quality, but if not, it is for precisely the same reason wh... | |
| 55” or 65” TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey @ajant - one more add to the go bigger list. If you like the impact that a movie theatre screenscape gives you, the distance from the most popular seats in any movie house as a ratio of the diagonal dimension of the screen ranges between 1:1 to 1:... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first @salc - as calvin and others have said, power conditioner first. But then followed by server/streamer, then pre, then dac and last, amplifier - seemingly counterintuitive, I know, but it’s all about the source, as evidenced by the biggest changes ... | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. @rodman99999 ‘infinitely tuneable’ - +1 : ) | |
| Open baffle speakers @mijostyn - not with nearfield listening and if that OB works off a competently designed and built field coil driver. You’d have to actually hear one to understand what’s possible. I only need to cross my subs over at 50db - any more affects the ... | |
| Open baffle speakers An open baffle speaker with good field coil drivers sorts out typical issues with low frequency control. In my listening, the only traditionally boxed speakers able to eliminate cabinet colouration have been the massive kharma enigma veyrons and t... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it A couple of thoughts here, for whomever it may help - I find it best not to mix tracks from different services when building playlists on Roon. It gets quite wonky after a hundred or so tracks from say tidal and qobuz on the same playlist, but the... | |
| Have you noticed as your system improves? I’ve found that the constant adjustment of volume is absolutely essential to my listening sessions, because every song and it’s delivery as a recorded track is different - some begin very softly to explode into incredibly loud and dynamic highs, o... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? @rodman99999 ☺️🙏🏻 | |
| Do your ears deceive you? @fleschler - and the greatest difficulty is attempting to gauge the difference of sound quality of a specific piece of equipment in a listening space that isn’t ours…. I’ve found it’s next to impossible to do that away from the specific familiarit... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery @veerossi - the SDFB and its sluggos will make any traditional fuse, SR or otherwise, sound inconsequential in comparison. For you, I suspect they work best in the DAC/streamer and preamp. In friendship - kevin | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery @dwcda - I believe you have misread that quoted statement entirely. No slip there and entirely in keeping with everything else I’ve said. Do not mistake the fuse box itself for what brings the sound quality gains - its only function is to protect ... |