reven6e
Responses from reven6e
| Separating cables, is there a mat to help along the way? In an ideal, purist world cables should hang freely, away from power etc. In the real world quite often you have a mix of power, Ethernet, audio, video etc that is impossible to manage following the above. I keep power cables bunched together in T... | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... At 2000£ retail one could challenge the passive dogma and go for actives and there are plenty of decent models out there. But you can’t get a dCS Vivaldi inside a speaker enclosure. You can’t shrink a Pass or a D’Agostino or your favourite valve a... | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? First of all at this level of price / SQ the benefits of high resolution are minimal. BluOS to me seemed like a work in progress and I abandoned it quickly. Life is too short. Sonos is still the gold standard for multi-room music streaming if you ... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant 15........ I think “huge” is an overstatement. I had a Pass Int250 with a dCS and in my opinion there were some subtle improvements - PS Audio gives you a more rounded sound and a blacker background but I can understand why in some systems the leaner sound ... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D Admittedly I haven’t heard the M33, the latest Lyngdorf or any other Eigentakt hardware. But reading Darko’s review (not first person experience, agreed), one word strikes a cord: out of the box the amplifier sounds a bit lean. Darko had to make g... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D I have had two Devialets, previous NAD generation and various other class D bits and pieces. Can’t stand them for that very reason: tonal balance. Nothing wrong with them. So I disagree. D is not yet there. High end is not about class D yet. | |
| $7000 preamp vs $700 receiver - Is the difference THAT significant? And why do you need Tidal MQA? I have a pretty decent DAC. And I prefer Qobuz for sound quality. | |
| $7000 preamp vs $700 receiver - Is the difference THAT significant? You said: ignore the multichannel but you have an AVR in there. What exactly is its function?The AVR is a poor source and a poor preamp / amp. You don’t even have the top of the line which is somewhat better. You also have a underwhelming source (... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? I can’t quantify perception. I can only tell you that I take more enjoyment in listening to system A compared to system B. A Benchmark DAC measures perfectly. And yet many people dislike (or take little pleasure) in listening to that sterile, hype... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? Which takes me to the next point. Psychoacoustics. Music. Sound reproduction. The objective sound wave and the PERCEPTION, the emotion derived. I am not a microphone, an oscilloscope, an instrument. I react emotionally to the music played through ... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? First of all let’s start with a definition. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental illness characterized by paranoid delusions, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this personality... | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! If you have a bright sounding room dispersion / absorption helps. But why would you spend 700$ to address a speaker problem (metal tweeter) when you could put the difference towards a better speaker with a soft dome tweeter?As for bass, I am not a... | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! Room treatments do little to address modal problems in a small room. I tried. Minimal benefits. And do you really want to fill a small room with 10inch ugly looking panels?LS50 has two big problems for me: box resonance which is very obvious comin... | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! I also have a small room and listened to my stereo from a similar distance. I had both the LS50 and the LS50 wireless on home demo. They do work well in a small room, they are not too bright (apparently the new ones are brighter), the bass quantit... | |
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