shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| DACs and reproduced sound It's a panglossian notion that the failings of one area of a system can be ameliorated by the failings in another. Not IME. Agreed. My point was that worrying about the performance benefit of an incremental reduction of 0.0001% distortion seems l... | |
| DACs and reproduced sound if no component is perfect it follows that no preamp is neutral. By neutral I mean it does not add coloration deliberately. There are plenty of examples of audio equipment that add coloration deliberately to create an effect or a particular sound. | |
| Wilson Benesch A,C.T. & Wilson Audio Watt Puppy8 I do not have direct experience but the audio compression evident on the tweeter (Soundstage Review of the WP8 see measurements) would really concern me if dynamics were important to me. Frankly, for a speaker at this price point and "quality" it ... | |
| DACs and reproduced sound Real-world devices simply aren't that accurate. Agreed. However at around 1% distortion we start to have trouble to hear or identify distortion. At best speakers may have 0.3% distortion over their entire frequency operating range at full power (... | |
| Speaker cabinet construction.. Seems many loudspeakers go more for WAF then performance and cabinet material choice show this. Absolutely. That is fundamentally what the majority of audiophiles plonking down $5K on a showpiece really want. Most are not aware of the colorations... | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? Lots of UK Bands are copping these 80s sounds at the moment, including Little Boots, Ladyhawke, La Roux and Patrick Wolf.La Roux reminds me of Blancmange.Heads will Roll (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is awesome especially the Tommie Sunshine mix). I also lov... | |
| DACs and reproduced sound The comment was surely about the analog preamp. A good preamp should indeed reproduce the input signal as closely as possible and good preamps should sound nearly identical, as they reproduce what they are fed. It s very hard to hear the differenc... | |
| How much are your speakers toed in? Zero degrees - straight forward. I have always preferred this position but with my current speakers it makes little difference as they sound the same over a broad range of angles unless you get too close or put them too near a wall... in which toe... | |
| Acoustic resonators in place of room treatment Of course, everything would depend on what that resonant frequency would be as well as what resonant frequency would contribute the most. Everything would be trial and error. Correct - I was thinking of a metal egg cup for enjoying your boiled eg... | |
| Speaker cabinet construction.. Interesting. This is a well known problem. It is why speaker quality can in effect be somewhat correlated to weight and the knuckle rap test. The heavier in general the better. Thin walls (like Harbeth) will have more coloration than heavy damped ... | |
| Acoustic resonators in place of room treatment Has anyone tried egg cups? Is there any reason why acoustic resonators have the market cornered on all metal cups/bells that resonate audibly and improve room acoustics? After all, to extend the analogy, Rives only does professionally with more kn... | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? And we have a new 80's sound (like Coldplay copied) .....the latest Simple Minds album. It sounds as if they have not missed a beat since New Gold Dream...are the 80's coming back.....I think maybe | |
| Preamp and DAC combination for upgrade Great suggestion from Bob. You may want to consider your speakers before investing heavily in DAC/PRE and powerful monoblocks. The Quad 12L2 are great but they are kind of one step above entry level - remember your speakers make the biggest impact... | |
| NHT Returns to a New Marketplace? So, all you need is good writeups in the audio 'rags' and the orders will be coming in, they think. My quess is no. What do you think. Good writeups are worthless primarily because 99% of writeups are strongly favorableHow about word of mouth - o... | |
| There is only one Ray Charles... I have what you already have. I'd suggest Maceo Parker "Roots & Grooves" for another excellent big band rendition of Ray Charles classics with excellent arrangements and superb percussion on the part of Dennis Chambers. Sound quality is absolu... |