shadorne
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| Musician vs. audiophile +1 RussbuttonYour “sizzle” remark is right on the mark. I would add that most high end sells sizzle too. Choosing the goldilocks sound (neutral overall - not too hot and not too cold) requires discipline and careful selection through audition of m... | |
| Done, really done! May I suggest Roon and Tidal subscriptions and then you can truly say you are done. | |
| Which speakers do I pick and are they close in quality +1 Harbeth for softer FM sound. Great mid range. | |
| Singxer SU-1 with Aurender N100H Possibly the Ayre output (did you use optical or Coax?) has less jitter than the USB 2 of the Aurender. Or the decoding of USB in the Holo Spring suffers from logic induced modulation - so it works better with the Singxer or a low jitter feed from... | |
| Most satisfying system change in 2017? ROON with Tidal lossless streaming and an extensive 3TB library of hard drive personal lossless music.This extremely sophisticated and elegant user interface has transformed my listening experience. More listening with more connections to other ar... | |
| Singxer SU-1 with Aurender N100H Those I know with the Holo Spring DAC all say that it needs something like the Singxer to work properly - so I don’t think you can eliminate it. | |
| ATC SCM40As sound quality at low voume No issue at all. Anything as as accurate as ATC will sound great at normal listening levels or live concert levels (ATC are impressive because they play cleanly at much higher levels than the majority of speakers).However equal loudness contours ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile +1 Al Great advice!As for Best Buy box speakers - don’t dismiss them. Speakers can be quite good at the $2500 price range and up. (Harmon Kardon own Revel and continue to do a good job F206 or 208). If you want good quality speakers that would sat... | |
| Gumby vs Yggy Just try a Benchmark DAC3 on 30 day return. And don’t use your pre as this will just add noise and dumb it down. | |
| 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. |