ohlala
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| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality I have seen other interviews with Darren who strikes me as very earnest. Thanks for the link. | |
| Flagship product to build around I like Voxativ speakers and amplification. Sure they're rolled off, but the tone is fantastic as are the bass modules. Holger usually partners his systems with Totaldac sources, so not so much thought required for great sound. | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns Excluding time and effort and focusing on MSRP within model ranges, the least expensive is most commonly the worst value, ime. I actually hate to get to generalized about these things but believe law of diminishing or accelerating returns are both... | |
| Is there any one piece of vintage gear you most wished you owned? Of all my gear I really like and hold the most complicated opinion about my Lamm L1. I would love to try an L2, but financially it is way down the to-do list. | |
| Denver and Front Range furniture maker -- just did my audio rack! Wow, great deal at 1.2K. If was audio marketed, it would be 5 times that. | |
| What is Tight Bass? I am all about the effect of ports or sealed speaker construction as well as amplification, but the room resonance is the biggest deal of all. Not just by way of speaker/subwoofer placement, but whatever can be done to flatten the frequency and de... | |
| Will a new Dac improve the sound? I have a Cary 303, which I believe is older and more expensive than the cdp1. I use it as a transport for a bricasti m3. The m3 is a giant reduction in distortion from the 303 dac. Smoother and more detailed, a huge improvement. as a transport the... | |
| Rate my system/advise A good preamp will make up for a bad preamp, but it will not make up for a not-so-great amp. Best of luck. Listen to what you have before buying more stuff, especially acoustics. | |
| Experiment, Experiment; What have been your most successful finds? @jond Hi, I use REW: https://www.roomeqwizard.com/ along with a Dayton emm-6 microphone and a Focusrite usb interface, which is an ADC. The interface connects the stereo, the computer and the microphone. Also need a mic stand. There is a learn... | |
| Experiment, Experiment; What have been your most successful finds? Along with the laser distance meter, I think REW or other acoustic measurement capability is accessible and a "must", especially for bass. There is no reason to do it by ear as the graphs easily translate in to audible changes. Similar to to art... | |
| Amp matching with high sensitivity speakers I hate to extrapolate, but my experience with lower output amps (35, 70, 80, 150 watt) with JBL 4367s (94db/hybrid with 15" woofers) was not good. Sure, they will play loud, but the bass is soft, creating great discontinuity between the horn's and... | |
| Why terminate speaker wire? According to Benchmark, their testing showed speakon was the best followed by locking banana. I wish all cables were speakon from a use standpoint. My cables are for too heavy for spades. | |
| KEF Blade 2 The meta is channeled disc to control rear projected high frequencies. The blade achieves its goals, imo, of a flat frequency response and KEF’s unique version of point source. Besides that and their cool design, I do not think they are remarkable... | |
| Lumin vs Bricasti Volume Control I tried M3 direct. It had that raw, detailed sound that I have experienced before without a preamp in other systems. The percussion sounds were heavily emphasized over other sounds, such as the vocals, so I much prefer the edit of the Lamm L1. I d... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5 speakers endgame? That is great, mitchb. Hales was the first hifi speaker I heard that really mesmerized me. I owned a pair of Revelations for almost twenty years, paid for by working at Walmart. There was pretty big gap between the Transcendence and Revelation re... |