oberoniaomnia
Responses from oberoniaomnia
| Fine tuning the system. Where do you start and how do you proceed ? First, the room makes by far the most significant contribution to sound quality (with exception of near field and headphone listening). so discounting room is the a first order mistake. Second, I listen to music not test records. A good system ma... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @knownothing Science is about looking at data and making the best possible inference with the least ad hoc assumption (Parsimony, Mach's Principle of Economy, Ockham's Razor). It needs not to be predictive or testing as is shown in e.g. medical di... | |
| What exactly is ROON? Re Audirvana vs. Roon, I have lifetime licenses for both and can't tell the difference in terms of sound quality running it from a dedicated computer (Mac mini). At one point Audirvana had some annoying bug with playlists, so focussed on Roon. Cou... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. I find ASR a refreshing, fact-based antidote to the florid nonsense hyperbole in traditional audio reviews. Take Fremer who argued in a TT review in TAS last year that one arc second is audible with respect to wow&flutter. That is physics non... | |
| How often do you upgrade turntable ? in the 1980s, Lenco hand-me down from my grandmother. ~1996/7 Project 6.1 2018 a Thorens 203 POS based on recommendation of a local Hi-End shop: lesson: don't trust brick and mortar shops. 2020 VPI super prime scout: wanted VTA on the fly, turn... | |
| Turntable Upgrade @gickcf Re VTA, I bought a VPI super prime scout with SoundSmith Zephyr cart for exactly that reason from Upscale. I could not hear an iota of difference even with massive changes. Before spending money on VTA, check whether you can hear it. If yo... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning of 45 flexidiscs? I had hoped someone here has some experience with this. I don't have scrap flexis floating around, and they are not that easy to find in the $bin at stores. Will wait a bit longer and ponder the matter ... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? Install trial version of Roon on a computer. Connect computer to DAC. Free. | |
| SUT suggestions for Audio Note System Zesto makes a variable gain (4, 6, 8, 12x) and adjustable impedance SUT. You can easily fine-tune playing volume with pre/integrated amp volume control and have a bit of tone control with impedance setting on SUT. No need to agonize about details,... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? No. ASR has tested a bunch of them, and there is zero improvement. Additionally, many third party cables are not UL/CE listed, so if something goes wrong (fire), you are out of luck with insurance. Buyer beware, literally. | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Went to a Napalm Death show in The Whiskey in LA, around 1997/98. Was curious about death metal. Opening was no-name, before first record band called System of a Down ... The rest is history. They were light years better than the main act on which... | |
| Should speakers be upgraded before preamp and amplifiers? What do you want from your system? What is missing right now? You have new speakers and vintage electronics. Do you want to stay with vintage? Room sounding ok? Otherwise this is where you get the biggest difference. You seem to be a vinyl perso... | |
| Voigt Pipe speakers still a thing? I am using a PearlAcoustics Sibelius, and am very happy with it. Don't know about driver, but cabinet is 1.5" solid oak. Love those speakers, not even thinking about changing them. | |
| Phono preamp upgrade price/performance Separate PS can definitely improve sound. I would suggest that a reasonable price point is around same as cart, so ~$200 with the 2M Blue. Doubling that to $500-ish may still get you a bit more refinement, thereafter it becomes a question of what ... | |
| Network DAC suggestions? Wiim Pro? ... @lanx0003 LOL! Thanks for the clarification of your intent and my mis-reading! For near-field listening room correction is certainly irrelevant. |