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"Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time?
Can you say 'Screaming Eagle' ?? Have I got a blind hearing test for you waytoomuchstuff !! A wise man once said "Never give a sucker an even break?" but he probably meant to say:  "If you never saw the 'Wall of Sound' then your probably just ne... 
Banchmark DAC3B vs. Denafrips Pontus II (12th Aniv.)
Looking at these two offerings one thing is common neither support 32 bit inputs. While most folks don't care, for those that are curating 384 Khz 32 Bit Floating Point files to play would not be happy with these products. Simply speaking IMHO e... 
Digital is far better than vinyl
It's a funny thang that one of the audiophile industries oldest members was doing a demo recently, in the retail store he is managing here in Santa Rosa CA, of a $8K Gold Ring Cart on a LINN Audio Turntable and Phono Stage with a direct to lacquer... 
Aurender N20 Streamer & Holo May DAC vs Analog
Would it be blasphemy to say that if you de-couple the streamer's true purpose of delivering a file un-altered to the DAC on the back end that the front end is what matters?  For my money ROON does the front-end the best. Now if you can find a st... 
Upsampling, Can there be too much?
FWIW We use professional DAW software to create .wav files of 384 KHz 32 Bit Floating Point, and our Chord DACs sound better than ever replaying these on ROON with absolutely no DSP of any kind.  Higher resolution source files are better than any ... 
Roger Waters Live Last Night in Glendale,AZ
I saw the Dark Side of The Moon at the LA Sports Arena in 1975 full 5-point surround sound, next to the Wall of Sound created by Owsley and Meyers or the Discrete Stereo Ultra Sound system the Dead used in the late 70's and early 80's it is the ab... 
Words of wisdom on choosing a speaker
I LOVE kenjit, you schmucks deserve Trump, fake audio LOL  :^P keep em comin' brah ne1up4blindtesting?cwhosgotears  
Getting good sound quality below 200Hz
When I was a college student in the early 80's we created a tape of many different instruments playing the exact same note.  We used woodwinds, brass, strings, tubular bells, you name it, we had access to the entire orchestra's instrument room. W...