shadorne
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| Best sounding Hard Rock Van Halen - in general really good sound qualityy1984 is outstanding - Hot for Teacher is really dynamic - love the double bass triplets and the hertas on the toms... Alex Van Halen is outstanding. Drop Dead Legs sounds great. I think the HD track... | |
| What do you consider the most musical speakers—$15000 & under @zq1 Dr Floyd Toole studied this conundrum and surprise surprise in blind testing listeners preferred “accurate” speakers, that is those with 1) flat full range even frequency response (no large peaks or troughs)2) even and wide dispersion3) low d... | |
| What do you consider the most musical speakers—$15000 & under @hifiman5 If “musical” means accurate then why not use the term “accurate” - to me musical is quite vague and includes pretty much anything except perhaps a lawnmower. | |
| What do you consider the most musical speakers—$15000 & under @jl35 JG Holt ended up with ATC SCM 50ASL after many years. He liked and owned Soundlabs for many years too.I don’t think there is such a thing as musical - either a device is high fidelity (accurate) or it isn’t. A lack or accuracy does not make... | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? Jitter is not additive if you have a properly designed asynchronous DAC. Again it is the equipment design and build which is key and not the cable. Incoming jitter becomes irrelevant if you have a DAC that ignores it. | |
| Most overrated bands Whoever sang, “I wanna—, I wanna—, I wanna—, I wanna—, I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig, ah.” is way overrated IMHO. | |
| Help me narrow down some speaker choices ATC SCM 40 have massive impact when powered appropriately. They need about 150 watts minimum.ATC have more dynamic impact than most any other speaker except bigger ATC.If you really like the sound you should try them with appropriate power not fle... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio Statistically average and mediocre are actually about the same but cable afficionados have terribly wooley thinking and wouldn’t grasp that. These folks get up from their chair and swap cables and sit down again repetitively until they hear the di... | |
| Is Direct Current An Option? Your are already listening to DC. All devices use DC powered circuits. AC is a great way to transmit electricity and transformers allow voltage conversion and capacities allow us to convert to DC. DC is impractical for transmission but necessary t... | |
| Should I buy SACD's or Buy Quality Multi-Format CD player and use Old Digital CD's? Streaming from Tidal is the way to go. | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? @willemj The interface is indeed the issue and it depends on the methodology of implementation. I would argue that USB digital has been a disaster for many years. Even today day I think the approach can be worse than Coax or Toslink because of log... | |
| Searching for the most "accurate" speaker (below 15K) Marty is correct. My experience with ATC is they are quite flat but have rolled off treble above 12K. So actually their soft dome tweeters are polite compared to other metal dome tweeters that extend higher.The main thing with ATC is that the mid ... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? @erik_squires LOL The author is entirely correct about smiley EQ curve speakers with the standard industry midrange scoop ....however this is INDUSTRY WIDE - you can hardly blame Stereophile or JA for what consumers want and buy in huge quantities... | |
| Chinese Loudspeakers ARE GOOD Good! It is the natural cycle. Japanese cars used to be crap and now they are among the best. I wish China every success on the journey from crap to the best.China has a huge advantage over Japan in having started out with the worst crap possible ... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! @willemj I agree with you but with with a caveat: not all line level equipment has high quality output - so I would restrict my choice to go without a preamp only when using a very high quality DAC with excellent and powerful output circuits. Some... |