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| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @nonoise The fact that everyone picked that speaker only goes to show that despite it’s drawbacks, everyone liked it due to it’s flavoring and the ear of the the guy who designed it. Some designers are better at it than others. Kinda grasping at... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @nonoise No, the speaker that measured close to ideal was picked as the winner. And this is with hundreds of test subjects over decades. So I don’t see how that’s a far cry from what I’ve been saying. While Toole has his book, it’s quite a h... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @lordcloud That’s not what Floyd Toole and Sean Olive has found. Toole said people picked the more ideal speaker every single time, no exceptions. Now, bass preference between trained and untrained individuals is like a 10dB difference, it’s st... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @lordcloud However, I do not believe, and have seen no evidence to suggest, that measurements dictate sound Uhh, how about most every single double blind study that has been conducted in regards to psychoacoustics? Show me one double-blind study ... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @cleeds That’s an extraordinary claim, and contradicts what many experienced designers of audio components think. Do you have a list of "all variables" that you would require to "accurately describe" what a component would sound like? That’s odd,... | |
| My personal review and experience with Arcam AVR 550 with Dirac Live @danimaz If you don’t want it warm sounding, you know you can adjust that with Dirac right? | |
| Best multi channel amp and processor good for 2 channel listening. @maguiar All modern B&W speakers are bright (their 10000Hz peaks are well known and documented), so it was the speakers not the processor. Bryston and Benchmark make excellent 2ch amps, being “fast” has nothing to do with sound quality being... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @lordcloud Amir of ASR and John Atkinson of Stereophile all publish their test gear, and measurements of the same products get very similar/identical results. And yes, if we measure all variables, we can accurately describe what it will (or w... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Timbre is an inherent quality of real musical instruments, and a more correct analogy is that it’s what makes one piano sounds different than another piano. Timbre is not distortion; a piano is supposed to sound like a piano, not a pure tone from ... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @nonoise If you read more about it, timbre is just about distortion, it’s why a guitar and a piano playing the same frequency key sounds different. | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @nonoise Tone: Frequency response. Timbre: Distortion. Soundstage: Channel matching and channel separation. Fullness: Frequency response. Realism: Nonsense description. The DACs I mentioned all do those well, behind human audibility. MQA yo... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @teajay You finding the Benchmark sterile is a compliment to its transparency. If you want to add colorations, that’s your preference (just like how there are countless reviews raving of its performance, that’s why I don’t trust reviews with meas... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @lordcloud @facten Coloration from source equipment, source material, interconnects, etc. are all identical regardless of what DAC is used, so if any inherent coloration of the DAC itself are below audible, then there is nothing else to consider... | |
| Higher Efficiency Speakers Unless the speakers are up against the wall and your seating against the opposite wall (not ideal, both your seating and the speakers should be at least 2ft off the walls, use a sofa table or something to take up space if you want). Ideally watta... | |
| What Is Better In General, Sonos Or Say A Network Streamer By Cambridge Audio? I would consider the Node 2i. The ChromeCast Audio is good, however no every app streams to it bit-perfect, so I can’t say the apps you would use would sound as good as the Node 2i or similar. However, for $40, it’s an amazing product, just a s... |