shadorne
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| Oppo 105 D vs. DAC-transport combination. Not surprising as the Oppo is excellent. To best the 105 you probably should try Stereophile Class A+ DACs or the 205 from Oppo.https://www.stereophile.com/content/recommended-components-2018-edition-digital-processors The Benchmark DAC 3 is about... | |
| Eric Clapton on J.J. Cale @bdp24 That Bobby Darn track is fun. I agree the drummer has a twinkle in his eye when he played that humourous fill.Reminds me of the Bernard Purdue Psht psht style punction with two open hits to a half open high hat on the 1 and the &. First... | |
| Benchmark DAC2 seeting into Ayre k5exMP preamp The Benchmark DACs put out something like 18 volts at full volume without resistor pad attenuation. This is too much for most preamp inputs. The resistor pads allow you to drop the output signal level to something much lower that your amp can handle. | |
| Dac Technology Mature? The concept is ancient. Calculus comes from mid 17th century. Often it is the implementation or application that is tricky. Da Vinci invented the concept of a helicopter but it wasn’t possible to build one until technology was sufficiently advanced. | |
| Eric Clapton on J.J. Cale Yup. Totally agree. The best musicians understand that it is just as important (if not more important) what you don’t play.ACDC rhythm section was amazing. Very tasteful. Very clever playing by their bassist Cliff Williams. He plays root of the ch... | |
| What speakers work well against a wall Wide speakers with a large baffle will work best. To get really close to a back wall check out these...https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6257#&gid=1&pid=3 Horns work well too. The importance is to minimize the frequencies going backward... | |
| Dac Technology Mature? @bachish You can add add links to your post with the “link” button. Just copy and paste the link to your soundcloud file. | |
| Harbeth 30.1 ? The Ultimate Speaker under $5K ? Yes - do test the Harbeth’s loud to see if they can hold together or if the balance falls apart and dullness sets in. | |
| SQ lacking It depends on the speaker design and manufacturing I guess and whether they are broken in at the factory QC where some manufacturers do extreme stress tests. | |
| Dac Technology Mature? @bacshishCongrats of first post and welcome. I cannot agree with you more. I am happy with the transparency of my Benchmark DAC 3. I would be happy with any number of leading DACs - they all sound really great. Leaps and bounds better than the mid... | |
| SQ lacking Yes be careful. Hi-end means muffled and euphonic old school sound to many audiophiles - easily distinguished from modern accurate sound. There is a happy medium between warm euphonic sound and accuracy and clarity - you just need to find that - o... | |
| Harbeth 40.1 vs Sonus Faber Olympia III +1 Harbeth 40.1 - no contest. | |
| Natural sweet spot in your system. Probably mostly the speakers. Soundstage has hundreds of speaker measurements showing large deviations from linearity even on SOTA speakers. | |
| Is Speaker design evolution stagnant Check out ATC. They design and build all their drivers from scratch. They design and build all of their active speaker amplifiers with discrete parts. | |
| Black backgrounds and such Blackness is a very good description. Just like on your TV. If you can output true black or improve black level then some low level subtleties will be visible. It isnt the same as hiss. Hiss can be ok - provided it is just random noise. I think of... |