motokokusanagi
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| New speakers or new amp - your thoughts My vote for room treatment above gear changes. Always! Check out the room kits from GIK Acoustics or similar. A huge amount of what you hear is the room itself, so taming it pays off more per dollar than any other thing you might do. | |
| Down to 2 speakers & I can't decide, ProAc D48R vs Spendor D9 Buying speakers blind is a big, big risk. However, Spendor is combined with Naim quite a lot. I’ve heard Naim Spendor setups and they sound good to me, but without the Naims behind them, I find Spendors boring af tbh. I run ATCs and they also go w... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers This thread is fun, but also nuts. The best advice I can give is go look up local dealers, check out what brands they carry, then make a shortlist and have as many auditions as possible, ideally with your own gear. Speakers are completely subjecti... | |
| What is the best way to tame a slightly bright speaker? Room treatment for reflections is high up the list. Electronically, it would be to increase the resistor value in the tweeter’s high-pass filter on the crossover (e.g. go from a 2ohm resistor to 2.7ohm resistor). This would reduce the level of the... | |
| Warm, lush and dark ... Dac up to 1.2K Look into Metrum for the vintage "anti-digital" sound you're looking for, too! | |
| Black Cat Silverstar BNC to BNC I'm a fan of Black Cat / Stereovox, but since switching to AES, I've not used a regular SPDIF cable for a while. However, BNC is always going to be preferred to RCA. This supposes your equipment has BNCs, obviously! Otherwise, things can get very ... | |
| Amazon Echo Link - Hi-fi? One can guess it’s just going to be a basic datasheet type implementation of off the shelf integrated circuits (e.g. TPA6120 for headphone, and the amp version of the product says 60W class D, probably TI, as well). Optical max sample rate says 96... | |
| ATC SCM20, Wow what sound.. I still have my old SCM20SL Pro passives on Sound Anchors and love them! They’re awesome 2 ways that just sound so right; the best qualities being the natural, transparent mids and surprisingly deep, tightly damped bass. For sure, all ATC passives... |