shadorne
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| Most Important? Has anyone even considered the room in this thread? About 50% of the sound we hear is indirect--coming from the speaker interaction with the room. Yes I did mention that after speakers, the room acoustics was probably the most important thing. I ... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. If you have speakers that are designed for it then you can reduce distortion. (TYhis requires a speaker with crossover sections that can be separated)See this articleIf you don't hear a subtle difference then perhaps...1) Your speakers are not des... | |
| TRELJA in Denver - 2008 Joe,Awesome job - thanks so much. Some people are givers and others are selfish takers in life. Those who take time to write lengthy thoughtful threads filled with explanations and with as much detail as they can muster are a blessing to these for... | |
| CD players with no or configurable upsampling I second that. | |
| Most Important? Wow - what an insane thread. Some of the polarizeed views suggest that Bose and Noel Lee has been extremely succesful at marketing their cheap speakers and expensive cables. Anyone who thinks that any old speaker will do clearly does not understan... | |
| Long Coaxial audio run? So much loss of quality even though it would be a digital signal to the DAC? The benchmark DAC1 claims to be able to work with a 1000 feet of Cat 5 cable but that is the only one I have seen making such claims. Any digital interface seems to suff... | |
| Most Important? If you are talking digital then $1000 gets you a darn good source if you are careful/selective (after you get diminishing returns). A darn good pre and power amp can be had for around $5000 again being selective. $1500 is where things begin in spe... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics I'll build the pro PA stack and put the easy chair right smack in the middle where the sheep pen used to be. Watch out. A huge heard of audiophile sheep was seen heading towards your barn this afternoon! I guess they heard about your concert? | |
| List : Components with high dynamics Tvad, Hey no worries - I wasn't keeping score - although you seem to be! I expect most will agree with you that 99% of audiophiles have no use for high dynamic components that can reproduce music realistically, as if it were live. So FWIW you scor... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics Moderate dynamics is indeed achievable with any particular good match but horns and pro-design big box speakers are definitely more highly dynamic than most other speaker types. I would have thought this was self evident to anyone who has been to ... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics ATC Speakers are world reknown for dynamics. Bryston amps also (but can be harsh in the highs) - however there are great many power amps that are dynamic (hundreds last time I loooked - so the power amp is rarely the limiting factor in most system... | |
| Proac or Sonus Faber Monitor Speakers Ryder,I agree with you about SF warmth. I did not like to say so but I think Proacs have a different design goal - the "precise" approach - whilst SF are more in the gorgeous luscious sound approach camp. Horses for courses but certainly different... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Pre I'd go option 1. If you can adjust the gain on your monoblocks or sub such that you drive the benchmark harder (louder) then you can eek the most out of its high performance specs (channel sep, S/N). I believe it comes with attenuator straps in th... | |
| Do speaker cables really matter? Unfortunately cables do make a difference. Agreed. Unfortunate. How about bi-wiring? This article is an interesting discussion of speaker cable issues (back EMF and IM distortion due to speaker driver non linearities and coil impedance). The prev... | |
| inwall speakers Paradigm make good in walls everything from cheap to pretty good quality with the SA-35 (around $1500 a pair) |