shadorne
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| Former Tekton owners: What have you moved on to? +1 MDF As for Zu Audio & Tekton etc and hype over the du jour latest and greatest “reinvention of the loudspeaker”. Today’s hype is quickly forgotten and becomes yesterdays fad. Only a few speakers become multi-decade classics and the rest in ... | |
| Speaker distance +1 GeoffI have ATC EL150ASL at about 7 feet apart tweeter to tweeter and I sit about 12 feet back. No toe in. I don’t like an exaggerated stereo effect and I like to keep speakers well away from side walls. There are also no walls within 6 feet of... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Good Grief! micro-arcing. Whatever will they invent next. Swollen contacts from excessive use causing micro-cracking? Apply liberally Grand Papa’s specially formulated Hi-Fi Hemorrhoid cream. I hear it makes a fantastic difference. Nothing worse t... | |
| DACs and bass response? @audioengr Why don’t you use an APX555 from Audio Precision?I cant really tell much from an oscilloscope plot and triggering can be tricky. | |
| DACs and bass response? @audioengr All cables will have a spectrum. All will be different, None will be perfect.That is why you need jitter rejection in the DAC! | |
| Dac upgrade? Not worth it if you use Spotify. Any old DAC is good enough for lossy compressed music. | |
| Mytek Brooklyn Weird. I thought they claim their DAC was made in USA? | |
| DACs and bass response? @audioengr Oh yes I absolutely agree that the J-test is not diagnostic. If there are spuriae then it is unknown where the jitter came from. All it says is that the DAC failed to produce the digital test signal properly - it could be jitter or it c... | |
| DACs and bass response? @audioengr The J-test does not use probes. I am surprised you are not much more familiar with the J-test, as it is an industry standard jitter test (used by Stereohile and others) and since everything related to jitter appears to be your specializ... | |
| DACs and bass response? @audioengr I believe your Synchro-Mesh works as you claim from your measurements. I have no hesitation recommending it as I know others with excellent DACs that benefit from source jitter reduction devices including cables.I also believe many (mos... | |
| DACs and bass response? As I understand it the J-test was developed by Julian Dunn in the mid 90’s.It appears to be the best test found so far and is used by AP in their lab test gear. (I dont agree with probes on legs of DAC chips as the probe itself is likely to affect... | |
| DACs and bass response? Steve,What is your opinion on the stereophile J-test? It measures analog out of a DAC to a test signal - so it checks for both incoming and intrinsc jitter.What do you think of the typical SOTA DACs that have a noise floor at -150dB when tested fo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bdp24 I would add Joe Cocker. Totally influenced by Ray Charles. I agree about gratuitous arpeggios. I guess it comes from playing piano alone in cocktail bars at hotels. I prefer Benmont Tench style - playing for the song rather than overplaying... | |
| DACs and bass response? @stuartk Euphonic would be a tube like sound - richer in even harmonics than is on the recording and can sound wonderful. Your choice as to what you prefer. There is no wrong choice. | |
| DACs and bass response? @stuartk You asked about my setup. Here is a link https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6257I think the DAC3 sounds like one of the cleanest and clearest windows to the recording that I have heard so far. Apparently it compares well to PS Audio (se... |