kr4
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| Stereophile spec measurement baffling(pun?) An SPL meter doesn't sound like a bad thing to have in the house. REW is better. | |
| Stereophile spec measurement baffling(pun?) The anechoic -6dB point is useful to know when considering what LF the speaker will offer in your room when the effect of room gain is added. Sometimes, companies will offer low end response in a "typical" room but without stating the room dimens... | |
| An integrated bargain? TAS Alan Taffel reviewed the Simaudio Moon 641 Integrated Amp in Stereophile: Did he, really? | |
| Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. Cat6 and LAN! | |
| Kef LS60 & Ethernet cables Good room correction is essential for you regardless of your choice of loudspeakers. You can decide about the subs afterwards. | |
| Kef LS60 & Ethernet cables I am using LS60s with CAT6 (and S/PDIF) in and CAT6 between the pair and do believe that there is any reason to entertain "upgraded" or "audiophile" ethernet cables. In a large room with many reflective surfaces, the DSP in the LS60 will probably... | |
| Dolby Atmos Yes, you do need a BluRay player for a BluRay disc. Generally, these have only HDMI output, so you will need a modern AVR or prepro and, if you want the Atmos tracks, it will have to be capable of decoding Atmos. OTOH, there may be other audio for... | |
| Small footprint subwoofer KEF KC92 | |
| False advertising There are DACs that can do 512 but, you are right, there are often caveats. Clearly, you cannot load a Win/ASIO driver into the Auralic but Mac docs say "supports DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256" without any qualification. Sad. However, if you are using... | |
| question about Balanced signals. Hmmm. I've not come across that before. | |
| question about Balanced signals. my question is regarding sources? what if they only have SE output to the preamp SE inputs? will I at least get some benefit of balanced signal from the preamp? Sure. They will be carried balanced from preamp to power amp. | |
| AES to s/pdif converter I have several <$100 AES-to-S/PDIF converters and all work fine but, so far, only up to 24/96. | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? That's nice but I'd rather they offered multichannel. | |
| Attention: Debussy-loving audiophiles Frankly , sound quality depends more on the acoustics of the recording site and the talents of the recording/mixing engineers than any of that stuff. There are outstanding recordings at 16/44.1 and grim ones at 24/192. That said, higher resoluti... | |
| Attention: Debussy-loving audiophiles In a brief sampling, I found it unremarkable. Not bad but not notable. I will have time later to listen more extensively. |