mike_in_nc
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| Sound Labs Wins! I thought Bricasti’s room (with Tidal speakers) at AXPONA was one of the very best. They played real music, not audiophile demos; the room was set up with care and acoustic treatment; and the volume level was realistic, not earsplitting. Tonal bal... | |
| Other Good High End Audio Forums Audio Aficionado serves mostly (not entirely) the upper quartile of high-end audio. It is very congenial, with very little of the bloviating present in some other forums.Steve Hoffman Forums are by no means completely objectivist, but the particip... | |
| What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions? The rise of active speakers with DSP has the promise of simpler systems that can have flatter in-room frequency response. When you compare what the Kef LS50 costs to the LS50W and what each offers, it's apparent that such integration also lowers c... | |
| Ultimate Integrated amps @erik_squires : Where do you live? I have the Anthem STR preamp (not the integrated) set up in Portland, OR, and you are welcome to come over for a listen. | |
| Is the dynamic advantage of cones just distortion? I think that distortion is one way that a component (speaker or electronics) might sound louder. And at least in the moderate price range, panel speakers to tend to have less distortion.On the first point, Robert E Greene said this in TAS in his r... | |
| CD distortion through preamp As I glanced through the manual, the function of the gain control was not crystal clear, by a long shot. I thought it said that the preamp would limit the signal above the "gain" chosen; i.e., that something with high output (like a CD player) sho... | |
| Company loyalty- What has been your favorite? Since I'm the customer, I would hope the manufacturer would be loyal to ME. I've already paid -- I don't owe them anything!Auralic has been loyal to customers, in offering great trade-in value to those who upgrade. Bryston has been, also, in offer... | |
| CD distortion through preamp I see the preamp has a "gain" setting that is input-specific. You've tried adjusting that? (It's not clear to me from a quick view of the manual if it should go higher or lower.) | |
| Streamer choices and help @Axeis1- I think the Aries G1 is one of the best streamers out there. At least I like mine very much & was unable to distinguish it from the Bricasti M5, which is about the same price but with fewer features (and a little quirkier in DLNA oper... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Like @lalitk , I think love or hate are too strong for my feelings. At some point, didn't have room for everything, and since my LP library was small, I sold a nice analog setup. That was ~20 yr ago.What I disliked about LP wasPitch instability fr... | |
| Streamers I use and can recommend the Auralic Aries G1, a little more costly than the Lumin and a wonderful-sounding unit. To my ears, it was a big step up from my original Aries femto. I have not compared the U1 Mini to the Aries G1. I suggest that before ... | |
| JL F112 Fathom Repair When I had an issue with my F112, JL Audio was quite helpful. I contacted them at technical@jlaudio.com | |
| What I call minimalist You might enjoy this CD: Tone Poems by David Grisman and Tony Rice. There's some beautiful playing, and not an unnecessary note. | |
| Thinking of buying a new DAC - Shiit Yggdrasil? You have the SHD or the SHD Studio? If the former, you don't like its DAC? It's not a bad chipset. | |
| Do standalone digital-to-digital EQ and Room Correction products exist? SPDIF in SPDIF out Background: I have used various DSP units over the years, including the TacT 2.2X, Weiss EQ1 mastering equalizer, the full SHD (with DAC) in our living-room (second) system, the Classe CP-800, and the Anthem STR preamp. Unfortunately, I haven’t us... |