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| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Bruce Springsteen and neil young. Their music is ok but not worth listening to their political BS | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? high quality audiophile components is a niche market. How many $100,000 speakers are sold? How many Wadex pieces are sold? Very few. If you looked at the article, their premium products included: List of Top Premium Audio Companies Panasonic (J... | |
| What is a good all around high quality speaker to purchase? I have multiple pairs of Revel speakers, all floorstanding. I Have some large Ushers that worked great in my 27’x16’x15’ room. Go listen to the ps audio speakers: the fr30’s, and fr20’s. I also use ps audio equipment. Take a trip to ps audio in B... | |
| Integrated that blew you away I’ve had many integrateds: McIntosh, multiple Hegels, Classe, rogue Cronus magnum with the kt120 tubes, and the Auralic Polaris. If I had more efficient speakers, I’d probably still have the Rogue, at least in my 2nd or 3rd system. The Hegels are... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes How many times have you entered $50 to deposit in your bank account and it became $5000 because the banks server was 3000 miles away? We are just talking music here, not a lot of data and not hard to do no matter the miles away the disk is. When ... | |
| Integrated all in one for a second system Most Focals are on the cool side so I might not want to go with Hegel because they are on the more neutral side. For focals, I would go with a warmer amp from the likes of McIntosh or Classe. In my 3rd system, I have the all in 1 auralic Polaris w... | |
| Tin Pan Alley and Thanks to You- which speakers play the tap on the snares the best? I’m an ex hard rock drummer for over 40 years. From the late 70’s, everytime I went to audition new equipment, I would take in music that exposed the drums: Tom’s, snare, bass, and all the different cymbals. 2nd requirement was how the bass guitar... | |
| Sound signature comparison - Streamer/DACs The op must be talking about benchmark, he stated overly bright and harsh. That’s benchmark to a t! | |
| Integrated amp under $5k I’d get any Hegel over a nad. If had a few hegels, a rogue Cronus magnum with kt120’s, Classe, Jolida, Auralic, ps audio, and a couple of McIntosh 6500 and 6900. Not sure why you are specific on a class d or ice amp. | |
| Speakers for new room If you follow the speaker guidelines like the 1/3 or 1/5’s, to get good sound you will need to pull your speakers out from the wall much more than 2-3 feet. IMO, if you can’t save your money and get a couple bookshelf speakers | |
| Tom Martin's Listening Room Minor might not be the right word, maybe 'appropriate' is the better word to use. Like I said, I have friends that have rooms that do make Tom's room look like a minor setup. For example, I have friends that hired Rive's to build out their room, t... | |
| Tom Martin's Listening Room This is a minor room treatment, most serious audiophiles have this setup or more. I’ve had this kind of setup for 20 years, but I’ve had friends with setups from Rives where they have many floating panel on the ceiling, their rooms had no 90 degre... | |
| Does your DAC sound better through the S/PDIF or I2S inputs than through USB? I2s is the best, followed by anything else, I used Ethernet before i2s, last is usb. My $1000 i2s cable is .75 meters long. A lot of the better dacs are not including usb, while some like Berkeley make a $2500 box to try to make usb sound better. ... | |
| Subs - Installation Look at Rel subs. They have multiple ways to hook them up. Their preferred way is to use their high level connection which is connecting their supplied speakon cable to you amp. You run your speakers full range and the rels integrate perfectly wit... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? 10x the cost of digital to make vinyl sound as good and even then it’s not worth all the headaches that go along with vinyl. I had 3x the cost of my digital in vinyl (digital at that time was close to $10k) and I got rid of my vinyl. I have friend... |