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| Best $10-15K bookshelf speaker? $15k gets you the Dutch & Dutch 8c loudspeaker system. That includes an active crossover, built-in amplification, DSP EQ and DAC. All you need is a streamer and your system is complete. They have the most extraordinary imaging Iʻve ever hea... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Iʻd put together a SEAS Thor kit from Madisound ($2615.00). They have a number of cabinet makers who can build them and ship them to your door for a reasonable amount. Theyʻre not all that hard to build yourself. You could get help from a frien... | |
| Looking for a simple system Go $15k for a set of the Dutch & Dutch 8c. Total system with: active crossover amplification DAC DSP EQ Tweaked for your room Roon target This and a streamer and you are DONE. | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? We listen to "Wait, Wait, Donʻt Tell Me" on NPR, on our Tivoli table radio. I also listen to NPR in the car. Thatʻs it for FM. No reason to tune into AM. I pitched out my FM tuner 25 years ago. We had just bought our home in the San Francisco are... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters I run a set of Linkwitz Orions I put together in 2006. They use the SEAS millennium tweeter. In fact, being an open baffle design, they use 4 of them. Two facing the front and two facing the rear. I believe theyʻre crossover at 1000 hz. Very ... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. Yeah. And if sheʻd have taken just half that sandwich from Mama Cass, theyʻd still be alive today. | |
| BS meter is pegged! All of these exotic streamers are just mini PCs running Linux and somebodyʻs custom front end. P.T. Barnum was right. | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? This Belkin surge protector is the one to get. About $43 from Amazon. 4320 Joules of protection. A sensible and easy choice to make. | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @soix So what youʻre telling me is that you can transfer terabytes of data halfway around the planet, transversing dozens of routers, going from fibre to copper to fibre and wireless with 100% accuracy routinely, but you cannot reliably transfer ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @ddafoe What we hear is analog. We never hear a digital signal. Only analog. So when we are hearing differences, itʻs always in the conversion of digital to analog, or something farther down the audio chain. Whether Iʻm streaming from a computer ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @soix Bits is bits. Thatʻs the beauty of digital audio. At the very lowest level of computing, all machines do is: copy data from one register to another compare data between two different registers add data from one register to another and... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT All of your various streamers are just generic PC boards running a custom front end app on top of Linux. Theyʻre just computers dedicated to running that one app. But go ahead and drop $5k on something youʻll be trying to unload for $1800 in ... | |
| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? I donʻt know about endgame. Thereʻs always another audio wonder out next year thatʻs supposed to put all the others to shame. With your budget, Iʻd sell off my electronics stack, buy a pair of the Dutch & Dutch 8c, get your room analyzed... | |
| Streamers and software Most here hate my take on this. All of these streamers are just dedicated computers, mostly running Linux with the vendorʻs user interface on top of it. Bits is bits. They love to tout this $5000 wonder versus that $3500 wonder. And of co... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? There was once a journalist who interviewed Count Basie. Like many writers, he wanted to get deep into the emotions and such, considering Basie to be this Great Artist. When he asked Basie for the meaning of his music, Basie replied in just thre... |