mzkmxcv
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| Can one use 2 sets of monoblock amplifiers to one stereo set of speakers? @almarg He’s talking about bi-amping, which wouldn’t be similar to parallel wiring. Though I may be mistaken. | |
| Help me - am I stupid 1) Upsampling helps by lessening the need for steep filters (for CD quality, filtering out everything over 22050Hz), it can also help reduce jitter depending on the implementation. Many DACs do this natively, so I wouldn’t do it on your own. 2) Y... | |
| Can one use 2 sets of monoblock amplifiers to one stereo set of speakers? I see no issues, though I doubt your speakers can handle more than you are currently feeding them (unless you are using tubes). | |
| How to DIY yourself very nice Class D monoblocks The Hypex kit is more expensive (<$1500 for a pair of monoblocks) but better quality amps and it’s so easy, no soldering needed (first gen kit did, but not current gen). | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @lvrooman54 the resulting dynamic range is usually better than CDs, even though the source is from LPs. Vinyl is reported to have a noise floor of roughly -65dBFS, so I don’t see how any ADC or conversion technique can make it better than CD at -... | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @itsjustme Using a multiple to upsample is an easier job and hard to mess up. Using a non-multiple helps with jitter but is harder to implement. As for up/over sampling before the DAC, it matters whether either side takes care of intersample ove... | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @itsjustme I know the Chord upsamples, so does the Benchmark, and so do many others, I’m specifically referring to upsampling before the DAC. DACs do this as it helps with jitter, doing this before the DAC doesn’t help. | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @itsjustme These make really critical mis-assumptions about what is going on in up sampling.First, go learn about up-sampling and interpolation filters. Then learn about reconstruction filters and their issues. Then think about how much better y... | |
| Speaker Suggestions @terrancej Monitor Audio Silver 500 has a hair deeper bass than the F208. If you found the Revel lacking, so would the Monitor Audio, even though crossing with a sub would solve this issue. The Revel is top class for accuracy and imaging though ... | |
| Stereo Amp A21 isn’t cutting it. sibilence and not enough juice to drive the woofers sub-less. The JC5, which I’ve demo-ed with the 702s, does a great job at it and is my runner up as it stands.I’m betting you demoed those in a different room, in which you ... | |
| Speaker Suggestions Revel’s have pretty much no fault other than limited bass, but if using a sub it’s a non-issue. Focal is solid, not the best usually but still worth their price point, and they look nice. B&W speakers image well, and that’s the only good thi... | |
| Budget Music Streamer @ghulamr Unless getting like a tube DAC or something, most all high end DACs try to sound as “digital” as possible, meaning all they do is convert digital to analog, no colorations added (or minimal as possible). If you can can add EQ/tone contro... | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @tatyana69 Thats a really poor analogy. Of course it won’t sound the same, as you are changing the physical environment, so you now are dealing with altered reflections/reverberations/echo. | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? @geoffkait If someone says the midrange is more pronounced with new speaker wire, where an SPL meter or a measurement mic shows no volume differences, whose right? Just how headphone burn-in isn’t real, a $500 USB cable won’t sound better than a... | |
| Separate subs for bass management & LFE in a surround set up Have all the subs play LFE and crossover signals unless your room leads bass to be highly localizable. Mad a simple test, only have the rear subs turned on and play a test tone at the crossover frequency, if you can tell it’s coming from behind ... |