lemonhaze
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| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @ mahgister, yes a misunderstanding. All good.The timbre of a sound is formed in it's entirety and does not depend on the room but is influenced by the room. By that I mean any instrument could play a note in an anechoic chamber or out in an open ... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @mahgister I usually enjoy and mostly agree with your posts except this: Timbre perceptive experience cannot be reduced to a mathematical additive bunch of frequencies and harmonics only ... Acoustic of small room play a great role more than th... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? kijanki, lets look at what you said I said 😕 You don't like very detailed sound .. I don't think I said that, I said I don't like the result of combining components that major in detail. You don't like perfect imaging .. I did not say that eithe... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? kijanki, this thread is not about you and your Benchmark.Musicality is a rather vague and nebulous term but I think coined to differentiate between a system that is overly detailed and a system that has detail but does not slap you alongside the h... | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) OP you are getting advice from jasonbourne and his ilk which I suggest you completely disregard if you are after 'high end digital' That poor horse has been beaten to death. You also mentioned something about measurements. If you are not familiar ... | |
| Hook-up Wire: Duelund DCA16GA vs Neotech STDCT-16 vs Cardas 15.5 AWG Point 1: Those are budget speakers so expect budget components. Stay 1mH but upgrade to 18 or 16 AWG air-core. Look for a coil that has been dipped or uses baked varnish. Do NOT add series resistor. The bigger 16 AWG will have a lower resistance, ... | |
| Which component to upgrade to improve bass control? You don't say why subs and room treatment are out. I have a friend who was in a similar position to you in a square room (the worst) with all hard surfaces and his expensive kit sounded horrible, I don't know how else to describe it, certainly bro... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? OP, all frequencies are important as that is what constitutes music and your proposition that bass should be optimised is solid. Achieving optimal bass is the quest and is what stymies the vast majority of enthusiasts mainly because of a lack of u... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics I'm sure there are a large number of experienced members who seldom post now because of all the vitriol spewed around. It never used to be like this , I remember avidly reading new posts of interest and looking forward to the next Thursday's Weekl... | |
| Recommendations and thoughts for end game speakers and amps OP, @ ghasley expressed his displeasure at members recommending something they have never tried, and I fully agree. I also do not think you will get an unbiased opinion from retailers. What I am recommending, without hearing, is the speaker cable ... | |
| Are you also leaving free (virtually) performance on the table? When I did some instrument wiring for the navy we had crocus paper for cleaning terminals and contacts. It's not a sandpaper or abrasive as such, more of a cloth, but cleans and polishes leaving the metal bright. Need to find some more. | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? @sns, as there is radio silence from the OP I would like to ask you about the caps in your XO that I saw when looking at photos of your system. It looks like you have Audyn and Jupiter. How did you come to choose these over say Mundorf or Duelund? | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? OP OK, The smart advice here is to treat the room. Know that all rooms need treatment. It’s a fact and I’ll say it again: all rooms need treatment, even the Royal Albert Hall, London had to have massive diffusers installed to get rid of the echo.I... | |
| DAC Upgrade Advice, budget $5k Hi OP, I am uncharacteristically going to recommend something I haven't heard. I have 2 DACs which due to downsizing would like to replace with a more modern one. After much research I finally bought a Mojo Audio Mystique V3 from Benjamin afte... | |
| DAC Upgrade Advice, budget $5k Yes, lots of love for the Mojo DACs |