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| ribbons vs domes and sibilance This is a particularly interesting subject for me, since I have been experiencing sibilance in one form or another with my last two sets of speakers. My previous speakers I first heard sibilance on just a few songs and I believe they were close m... | |
| Verity Audio speaker manufacturer silent... Too bad... Verity Audio had very respectable speakers. I had a pair of Parsifal Ovations and they were indeed a very nice sounding speaker system. I had them for several years until I heard a pair of Living-Voice OBX-RW's which sounded more rea... | |
| Ethernet cables Going down the digital path for several years now, I've made a number of changes from DAC's to music-server/streamers, and the cabling that goes along with them. There has been a lot of good information rendered in this topic. What I have found ... | |
| The molecular level explanation of "cable burn-in" @unreceivedogma Oh you silly Santa denier ! | |
| The molecular level explanation of "cable burn-in" In my 40+ years of audiophile listening, I do believe that break-in of speaker cables and interconnects is necessary and happens. I don't prescribe to know the physics behind it however it's been a phenomenon I've experienced many times over with... | |
| It's your streamer, not your modem I like this discussion... I think Eric, et-al are correct from the standpoint of buffering, however there are issues I’ve found with poor Ethernet regarding noise, etc... I just finished a response to a recent discussion on streaming services whic... | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? Lots of good recommendations ! I had issues with streaming music versus the EXACT same album loaded on my Innuos ZENith MK3 with a Phoenix USB re-clocker. I use Qobuz which in my listening opinion sounds slightly better than Tidal. No matter wh... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Interesting discussions on efficient speakers... I have run through the gambit of lower efficiency 87db-89db speakers and efficient 94db and very efficient 103db - 106db. And I've also gone through the same regarding the amps I believed needed t... | |
| Solid State Low powered Amplifiers I have a Valvet E3, a First-Watt F8 and SIT-2 and all of them are class-A and are terrific sounding. The F8 has the most power over the other two however for fairly efficient speakers, all do very well. Each have their own sonic signature and I ... | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off I turn nearly all of my electronics off after listening. The only thing left on is the internet-modem/router. After powering up for listening, consistently the music sounds better after at least 1-hour of warmup. I'm not certain which components... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? About 6 years ago, I purchased a pair of lower priced floor-stander speakers (~$2K/pair) without an audition but based on a glowing review by a reviewer and his audiophile friends. He supposedly kept the review pair and said his friends were goin... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I have heard the difference between new and broken-in cabling nearly all my audiophile life. Even when I had my first real audiophile system I was able to tell the difference between the new and broken-in cabling. I recently purchased Iconoclast... | |
| Transport Recommendations +1 for the Jay's Audio CDT2-MK III... It's above your price point new however used it's probably in your price range. Built like a tank and terrific sonics. I have one and love it ! | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming I have a Netgear C7000v2 used with Spectrum as the internet carrier. I've had no issues with it and it covers my modest 1000 sq-ft cottage with WiFi quite well. What I did notice though is that until I added an Uptone-Audio EtherREGEN device whi... | |
| Is more amp power always better...? I have a pair of very efficient speakers at 12 ohms impedance playing in a modest listening space and the best sounding amps are those of low wattage class-A. I've heard a number of class-A and class-A/B on my speakers, even those of class-A/B wi... |