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| Ribbon midrange pros and cons RAAL makes ribbon tweeters Companies like GoldenEar use AMT tweeters, they look similar but are different tech. The RAAL tweeters are some of the best on the market, but they don’t make any midranges, and I don’t think I have ever seen a rib... | |
| Active Subwoofer Recommendations Rythmik L12 is <$550. It should be good unless your space is huge. | |
| PS Audio Stellar S300 amplifier It uses the same ICE module in the Emotiva PA-1 monoblocks ($600/pair). I do wish to see measurements of both to see how they compare, as the module isn’t everything (just like two companies using the same ESS/AKM DACs can have vastly different re... | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? @tzh21y It does have a clock input, but what are you syncing it too? A master clock is to make sure all the components are in-sync. All you have is your Marantz going into whatever preamp/integrated you have. Does that have a clock input as well... | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? @folkfreak Name an audible benefit DSD provides over PCM; or explain an audible defect of PCM. To save time, “smearing” isn’t a valid response. PCM perfectly captures the waveforms below Nyquist and even undithered 16Bit has a larger dynamic rang... | |
| Zu audio Soul Supreme vs Prana Fidelity Bhava @roxy54 Really? Look at most any Stereophile measurements of a ported speaker, the sound coming out of the port can sometimes be very loud, which is why most bookshelves are rear ported (mine are front-ported, but are a T-line so it’s less of an ... | |
| Zu audio Soul Supreme vs Prana Fidelity Bhava If wanting American assembled, the Ascend Acoustics Sierra Tower with RAAL upgrade, one of the best out there <$5000, and it’s 90dB sensitive (Soul Supreme is 91.5dB, the Prana is 89.5dB), so unless you sit far, it’ll get loud enough. I know y... | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? What are you gonna use the external clock with? Does your preamp/integrated also have a word clock jack? You don’t just plug it into your transport/player. Or are you talking about a re-clocker? As I’ve stated on this forum, there is no real tec... | |
| Power Amp advice Emotiva XPA-DR2 looks good. | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? @folkfreak OP has now stated whether he uses SACD or not, but good point. I would argue though that regular Audio CD through an SMSL SU-8 or similar would sound be better than even a $10,000 master clock hooked up to that Marantz. Granted, Stere... | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? Did not know the Esoteric was multi-box (I know the DCS is; I still see no reason to have an external upsampler). Still, I believe OP is asking for a reclocker and not actually a master word clock. I know that Marantz has a clock input, but unle... | |
| Paralleled HDMI Cables Connection Improves Video Quality Meant to say: Bandwidth plays no role in increasing pixel clarity in HDMI; meaning it’s not gonna be doing compression like a low bandwidth video stream. | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? @folkfreak riddle me this then. Why are the suppliers of external clocks primarily suppliers to recording studios? Presumably the studios can afford the clock impervious DACs of which you speak so highly yet they somehow seem to think it worth in... | |
| Digital clock - any recommendations? @folkfreakIf it is a good DAC, then what OP heard is not real. People wanting to believe expensive “tweaks” actually matter. However, going off the Stereophile measurements of the Esoteric D-07, even $100 DACs have better jitter than that, so... I... | |
| Help me find the right DAC @andrewkelley The mentioned BlueSound Node 2i should be up your alley then. For optical in, you’ll just need a Toslink to mini Toslink cable: FosPower, EMK, and KableDirekt have ones on Amazon; or get any normal Toslink to Toslink cable and get a... |