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| Question About DACs @joshfilm “people don’t want to hear that their $250 DAC isn’t as good as a $5000 one.”is is an equal if not greater force in this debate. Not really, measurements of the $250 Topping D50, I would like to know what stops it from being audibly tr... | |
| Question About DACs @headphonedreams Let’s say the frequency response is within +/-0.1dB, distortion below -90dBFS, crosstalk better than -90dBFS, no aliasing or images above -90dBFS due to the reconstruction filter, volume linearity within +/-0.5dB down to -120dBFS... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? @jji666 they make vocals sound real. You are crossing over way too high if you can hear vocals from your subwoofer. | |
| Question About DACs @georgehifi I know how it works. The fact is I don’t belive there is any R2R DAC under $1000 that can compete with the $250 SMSL SU-8 for instance. And as an example, Soekris dac1421 measurements, if the performance of a $100 DAC for $1000 is was... | |
| Question About DACs @headphonedreams I would not trust measurements very much for dacs, there are very good sounding dacs that don't measure that well and dacs with good measurements that don't seem to sound that well. Measurements are 100% accurate in predicting ... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? @larry5729 It’s a subwoofer, impossible for it to have soundstage depth, unless talking stereo use with each sub playing either the left or right channel. | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? Rythmik, HSU, and PowerSoundAudio. SVS if you are limited to BestBuy or want financing. REL and Vandersteen don’t even come close to Rythmik and HSU in terms of bang for buck. JL Audio also isn’t as good for the money. As for ported or sealed. ... | |
| Question About DACs @ketchup Even Schiit states their $100 DAC is their best measuring one; it’s also no coincidence that that’s the first DAC they made after getting an Audio Precision analyzer to actually measure the stuff they are selling. The fact that George s... | |
| Advice on bookshelf speakers (Sierra 2, Buchardt, Monitor Audio, LS50) @thecarpathiam Measurements from Ascend’s own site It’ll still sound good around +/-10° vertically, which is 6ft is about +/-1ft. | |
| Given Cambridge's Dac Magic and the Plus last release, should I bother? It’s using the current ESS 9038 (Q2M not Pro, that would be >$1500), so it can’t be that old. The chip was anounced the beginning of 2016. Technically, you could run it directly to a power amp, as most don’t need more than 2Vrms to reach their... | |
| DAC Upgrade @mlapenta Yep, for those like me that belive measurements correlate to sound quality, both the Qutest and the Benchmark DAC3 are $1700-$2000 and are very transparent. | |
| AirPlay - "Best" solution help... Sorry, somehow forgot to paste the jitter test tracks:http://archimago.blogspot.com/2018/08/demo-musings-lets-listen-to-some-jitter.htmlEach of the 5 tracks have 10 versions of jitter ranging from none added to 35,000 nanoseconds. The jitter is si... | |
| Given Cambridge's Dac Magic and the Plus last release, should I bother? Comparing the measurements of the old $400 version against the $250 SMSL SU-8, the SMSL is better. | |
| Bookshelf speakers for near-field (desktop) use The benefit of coaxial really shows itself in nearfield. As a reference, measure the distance between the tweeter and woofer (center to center), you should be roughly 3x that distance in order for the drivers to combine cohesively. Another benefit... | |
| Upgrade the projector or projector screen? Why would you buy a white screen for a dark room? Your blacks are only as black as the screen, I would have gone with a 0.7gain or similar if my projector could handle that. It’d be like going from LED to OLED. That said, not sure you should upgr... |