p05129
Responses from p05129
| Why do I need a switch? Forget the switch. If your sound is noisy, get a Ethernet-to-fiber then back to Ethernet setup going to your dac and you will clean up the signal. As for getting multiple switches to clean up the signal, that’s nuts. But if you can tell the diffe... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile 6 digit income is poverty in certain areas of the country/world. it’s not that hard to make a 6 digit income since the year 2000. It also doesn’t mean you will spend a $200,000 on an audio system or $200,000 on a car. Why spend hundreds of thousan... | |
| Warm, Lush Laid-Back Smaller Floor Standers? For $8000 and a large room, look at the revel f228be speakers over the f226be’s because you get 8” woofers. Or if you want and end all speaker for a little more money than the f228’s and less than $8k, you can get the revel studio 2’s or for a lit... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile Most people don’t get what is an audiophile. Most people think if you keep buying equipment, you are more enthusiastic about the equipment than about the music. Far from it! I have many systems ranging from $300 to over 15x that amount and I enjo... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often I have never liked an efficient loudspeaker/set amp combo. What is an efficient loudspeaker anyway? 100+db? 95+db? I’m not sure if I ever have had a speaker > 90db, but I have had some 85db stand mount speakers driven by 1000 watt monos that s... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? How many of you that responded have actually heard these speakers? I’m guessing 99% of you haven’t so how can you say something is better than something you haven’t heard them or have personally compared your mentioned speakers to these Wilson’s i... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Most of the magazine reviewers have terrible rooms, some way too small, others with wood floors and they claim there is no bass, speakers aren’t setup correctly, and most don’t have any treatments. The more credible reviewers on YouTube and the i... | |
| Ripping CD's to hard drive Never rip to anything less than flac or aiff. Disk is so cheap and getting cheaper every day. | |
| i2S clock question I2s and Ethernet inputs on the better dacs are superior sounding compared to the other inputs, even if you include all the hacks/tweaks that people apply to some of those protocols. I would take an fpga based dac over a pure hardware dac for many... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Who is “we”? I just added a dozen new releases to my library yesterday, with most being MQA releases. Using Roon, it’s very easy to find new releases for a particular artist | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... ASR is terrible. I liked it when ASR tried to get back at Danny from GR Research, totally fubar’d that. That’s how bad asr is. ASR has tried to bad mouth other brands that I personally like/own that are highly rated from other reviewers. As for n... | |
| 2023 Florida Audio Expo Show Report How was the show? Last year it was terrible. Sometimes we were the only people on a floor and it was just us in most rooms. The only rooms I was impressed with were from the smaller manufacturers: Jolida for example. Other rooms either didn’t soun... | |
| "High end" store snobbery If you live in the northwest, go to definitive in Seattle, very good if not 1 of the best in the nation. If you want to deal with a store with new and used gear, check out echohifi.com in Portland. Have done quite a bit of business with them over ... | |
| Proof of improvements in audio system sound quality.... Very few audio store salesman that I have talked to know anything except how to sell any piece of audio gear to make a dime. That goes for most audio magazine reviewers. These guys have terrible rooms that they review equipment in and everything t... | |
| KEF's meta material gimmick? A lot of new technology in speakers since 2000 and a Renaissance of an old technology from the 70’s making a huge comeback. I like the newer Diamond tweeters, even some of the beryllium tweeters. AMT tweeters are making a huge comeback after the... |