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| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? When any system gear at any price is well installed and well acoustically optimized ,then you know it because your critical listenings skills are put to sleep, they are no more necessary. Not because your system is the best in the world, but beca... | |
| Preamplifier options - seeking help to determine which one All is about synergy here for sure but as pre-amp for the price i will go Berning ZOTL too though ... I regret it because i used it as headphone amp and the synergy was not there for my picky AKG 340... But i regret it as a pre-amp which i did ... | |
| Preamplifier options - seeking help to determine which one The Yamamoto tube is beautiful... And i trust japan audiophile engineer... i cannot help you with your choice... But Yamamoto seems a good choice... My speakers are powered and a pre-amp with tube in my case and a equalizer made a worl... | |
| Do I need a headphone or speaker to appreciate high-end DACs? Any headphone must give a natural timbre first... Then it must gave not details but musical balance where no parts is perceived out of balance from the whole... i am afraid of the word "revealing" for speakers as well as for headphones... I pre... | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? You say it better and shorter than me... Sure, you will be able to enjoy one piece more than the other, but it will never reveal the true potential of any. | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? At the end acoustics is the vital part indeed... i can do acoustics specific implementation with any system or speakers nevermind the one chosen at any cost, what matter is the end result for my ears with the chosen speakers for my budget, in a s... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound I bet no one had talk about Tacet tubes only recording... My favorite... My best recorded cd are on the top of the top: 2 recordings... One is Vivaldi 4 seasons on Tacet tubes only ... «“Tube Only” means: only tube microphones and amplifier... | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? Critical listening must be learned and acquired by experimenting with acoustics principle in a room... Not by changing the gear pieces and calling this my taste and listening skills..... Is it so difficult to understand why ? If you dont unders... | |
| Do I need a headphone or speaker to appreciate high-end DACs? K340 has a very nice headstage. Their unit-to-unit sound variation these days is quite horrible; sounds like you have one of the good pairs left out there. These have already exceeded the quoted lifespan of the electret driver; but if it sounds g... | |
| Do I need a headphone or speaker to appreciate high-end DACs? I concur with your opinion... I hate all headphones... Save the AKG K340 because i have a sounstage out of my head... I'm of the opinion there's more meaningful difference between DACs when compared on a good 2ch speaker system. With he... | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? I must be a martian... Or my acoustics studies and experiments enlightened me... Critical skills used to compared speakers are useless... ( save for reviewers who trust their "taste" and dont give a damn about acoustics conditions the look fixa... | |
| Do I need a headphone or speaker to appreciate high-end DACs? There is bad dac... Once you get one which is good for you... Stick with it... Most upgrading dac is a marketing ploy to push consumerism... No dac can beat a good acoustic or make it by itself... Synergy between dac and pre-amp or amp is imp... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype True... Like is true that in democracy we are all equals in right... But as said Orwell "some are more equal than others"... The most important factor all others included together is acoustics (psycho-acoustics too) basics... EVERYTH... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype Deepest salutations my friend! @mahgister 👍 I'd say "You ARE what you hear and how...." Gets deep quick. And gone thru this before here. Do what cha' do. Fleeting as is Enjoy, J | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype This hobby for me was about how i ought to learn to install an audio system studying the three main working dimensions of any system , nevermind the price : mechanical,electrical,acoustical... Most people are gullible to publicity and buy gear... |