shadorne
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| Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar I am all for the latest round of Giant-killer DACs. I think it is wonderful that the kind of performance that only Meitner and a few select offered over 15 years ago is now quite widely available in $2000 range. Technological progress and competit... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @csmgolf All good points. Though I am not trying to insinuate anything. To be clear, IF Magico indeed takes more than 600 hours to break-in (which I doubt for such a seriously well engineered speaker) then this is actually a poor design IF the des... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @csmgolf Good point. However, would you not agree that at 40 Hz the acoustic suspension should dominate the overall response in a well designed box. | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @fsmithjack If you review my comments you will see they are not a personal attack but entirely suggestions and responses to factual assertions by yourself who claims, "Houston" we have a problem.I don't recall suggesting you get ATC speakers, as I... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @csmgolf Good points! I agree with you.Yes these small changes which are usually attributed to spider compliance are well known. Should the spider dominate the in box designed response - probably not on a good design?So what seems not to be well u... | |
| HD FILES which is best hi Bit Rates, or Hi Word lengths? @blindjim "BTW… what’s happening to those other three words from 24 to 21, if you don’t mind mentioning it?"-----> The 21 bit resolution in the analog is an analogy. It means that the noise floor on the analog circuits sits at the equivalent le... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass These are your words not mine:"these Magico's are burning a whole right through my head like a lazier beam.""I've been setting them up and measuring and tweaking and they are giving me a royal head ache now? How can this be? I spent a ton of money... | |
| Solid state DAC under 12K retail preferably with ethernet I would recommend anything SS from the Stereophile Class A+ list.https://www.stereophile.com/content/recommended-components-2017-edition-digital-processorsBenchmark DAC 3 should replace DAC 2 on the A+ list - it was only reviewed recently. | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @steakster Sorry but it is simple. Something that changes for weeks and possibly months is neither accurate nor high-fidelity. The term high-fidelity is about faithful reproduction of the source. Components that constantly drift and change in perf... | |
| HD FILES which is best hi Bit Rates, or Hi Word lengths? The key is to understand that most DACs benefit from higher resolution and upsampling as it corrects non-linearity in bit levels and allows for a less aggressive anti-aliasing filter.Currebt Class A+ DACs have the equivalent of 21 bit resolution a... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass This is concerning. If properly constructed, speakers do not need 600 hours of break-in. An hour or two at most. If the sound is still changing after 600 hours then it is unlikely the design has any stability or reliability to begin with and you c... | |
| Persona 3f vs B&W 802D2s @real_music777 +1Here is the 802 D3 https://www.stereophile.com/content/bowers-wilkins-802-d3-diamond-loudspeaker-measurementsStill has a hole in the midrange off axis but overall a much more balanced speaker than the D2. The bass response looks g... | |
| Persona 3f vs B&W 802D2s @lalitk I havent seen measurements but by all accounts the changes were mostly cosmetic (silver trim and magnets for the grill).Of course if a new version of the same speaker model sounded completely different then that would mean that B&W can... | |
| Persona 3f vs B&W 802D2s @lalitk Here is the Stereophile measurements. See if you can spot the giant gaping mid range cavernous hole in the off axis response from 1 to 4KHz? Notice the peak at 4 KHz where the tweeter kicks in? Notice the 7dB resonant one note boosted bass... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC @willemj This is why I always say,"If changing a piece of wire cable makes a big audible difference then your system problems run much deeper than mere cabling and it is critical to investigate further" |