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| moving from house to an apartment.. goodbye 802D's Did you consider a dipole subwoofer? It made a huge difference for my neighbors and I can now turn up the listening volume higher than before. You would get the added benefit of less boomy bass and more articulate bass than with a closed or ported... | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? In my personal experience, if the streamer doesn't apply badly implemented sample rate conversion or otherwise messes up the signal (even cheap solutions like chromecast audio are in this category, the chromecast hdmi and most android based soluti... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work With today's online catalogs of tracks to download, especially in high res, why would anybody still want to buy a CD? It beats me why CDs do not encode regular wav or flac files, with much more effective error correction for buffered playback. Add... | |
| Opinions and recommendations on active loudspeakers No one mentioned it here, but there is a fundamental differrence betweena) near field listening (e.g. at a mixing desk or desktop) andb) listening in a living room.Studio monitors are usually very resolving and dynamic sounding in near field setup... | |
| Digital Room Correction For Speakers This has not been mentioned here, but in my experience, using dipole speakers (especially dipole bass) is a very effective way of reducing room interaction to start with (as in LXmini / LX521 speakers). | |
| Good DACs have known benefits, But what About Streamers If you use a really good reclocker right before the DAC to reduce jitter (any DAC in my experience will benefit from this), the streamer will not (relevantly) affect sound quality unless it does some processing (e.g. sample rate conversion). With ... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? rocknss8 posts11-24-2018 5:34pmAre there any studies showing the cable improvements by placing a instrumentation microphone at the listening position? I am not aware of such results, but I too strongly believe that it would make things a lot clea... | |
| Why do amps sound different? In my audio experience, the main issue with amps is the unpredictability of how the output characteristics of an amp will affect the acoustical result of the loudspeaker. An effective way to reduce impact of an amp’s sound signature and get consis... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? @dynaquest4: very quick AB lets you pick up changes but it may be advisable to validate that by switching after longer periods of time, typically several days with interruptions and sleep to get a fresh ear on it.Another thought: if heavily proces... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? Maybe the paper referenced below will shed some light on the complexity of jitter for those that believe that a simple value in some clock or DAC datasheet can Trump this effect for good.Audibility of some forms of jitter on DACs and ADCs have bee... | |
| Any Empirical Audio Synchro Mesh users out there? Hello,I have been using the SynchroMesh for a couple of years now and the improvement in sound quality is very obvious and very addictive! I used it in combination with several DACs, the best one being a NorthStar Design Model 192 modded for me by... |