mike_in_nc
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| Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue? Many recordings are very bright. A system flat to 20 kHz will (IME) result in fatigue. That will be accentuated by bad room acoustics (slap echo, early reflections). Depending on one’s hearing, one might need to roll off the response to make many... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? As @hilde45 said, one can’t really argue taste. To me, there is a perfection to Ella’s singing that can seem a bit cool emotionally. Her intonation is beyond perfect -- I’ve never heard a singer do what she does, and so smoothly. I love listening... | |
| Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable Some thoughts and questions: By what mechanism -- other than noise transfer -- could an Ethernet cable carrying packets make the eventual analog sound be warmer or brighter? Is this measurable? Detectable in a blind test? Persistent over time? W... | |
| Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable The main difference is that Cat 8, which is totally unnecessary for home audio, has a shield and metal connectors and potentially will transfer noise through its shielding. Cat 6 and 7 (MORE than enough) do not have that "feature" and will isolate... | |
| Unfinished basement listening room My room in the basement needed a lot of treatment to sound good. After treatment, it sounds better than any room its size (12.5 x 20 x 7 ft) has a right to. Big bass traps in 4 corners were key, in my case. A little absorption with binary scatter... | |
| Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly? I still think fondly of my Acoustic Research XA turntable and Shure V15VMR cartridge. I was a student in the Boston area and first saw the XA at the AR showroom. I got the cartridge from Tech HiFI. | |
| Euro Tumble If you buy from Europe a speaker that does have US distribution, it is unlikely to have any warranty service available in the US. That is often part of what the distributor does. If you buy from Europe a speaker that does not have US distribution... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? @sns I often hear talk about bad recordings and good recordings, but what are the particular qualities that qualify a recording as bad or good for you? Here are mine. I expect them to differ for others. What bothers me most about a recording... | |
| Torus vs AudioQuest Niagara @twodogs112 - Thanks mike in nc. The led dots are a great suggestion. If you haven't noticed already, the same maker also has dots that are not completely opaque, but just dim light transmission. I use those for other things (my digital alarm ... | |
| Torus vs AudioQuest Niagara @nyev - Re noise: Yes. It filters nicely. I find the sound of my hi-fi is more consistent from time to time, which I suspect is due to just that. Re: too bright LED. Yes again. I used this from Amazon: LIGHT DIMS Black Out Edition - Light Blocki... | |
| Torus vs AudioQuest Niagara +1 @twoleftears @nyev It is just nutty how audio simultaneously has (1) an obsession with "lowering the noise floor" (often inaudible already), and (2) a raft of products that buzz or hum. I also am happy with the RM-20. It is dead silent, and ... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? Good equipment helps, especially speakers and room acoustics. Yet with a bad recording, even the best equipment can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Not only are many recordings bad, different recordings can be bad in different ways. Even ... | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value acoustic treatments | |
| Bluesound and BluOS I used Qobuz on a Bluesound device (NAD C 368) for a while with absolutely no problems. I suspect your networking might be the issue. Tidal’s lossy MQA files may be a little smaller than Qobuz’s lossless files, so if the network is just capable of... | |
| Proud Harbeth p3esr owner - need help tweaking/troubleshooting @gerryr1 >> I have the same issue with the P3ESR speakers. << Unfortunate that you're not getting good sound from your Harbeths. IMO, 23 watts -- no matter how good those watts are -- is not enough for the P3ESR. You may be hearing ... |