shadorne
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| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! Dave,I agree. Reasoning is a guide only on how to approach something. Reasoning can get you out of a lot of rabbit holes - For example, why do some DACs sound terrible with one digital cable but better with another. Is it the cable? Is it the DAC?... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! @uberwaltz Check out this plot (Fig 13) why you should always run line level preamp devices north of 12 oclock (when playing loud) and why you should not string multiple preamps together. https://www.stereophile.com/content/benchmark-dac3-hgc-d... | |
| SACD vs. Blu-Ray for audio quality/sonics @rAndy-11 Yes avoiding brickwall filters helps with passband ripple - this has been the long standing argument for upsampling. However randomization of DAC non-linearity is not well understood. Basically the higher frequency noise in high sample r... | |
| SACD vs. Blu-Ray for audio quality/sonics @willemj You seem mathematically adept or inclined. Non random Jitter is a big audible problem even in amounts that nobody thought could be audible.In a sense, jitter is a form of timing or clock non-linearity.There is another pernicious form of n... | |
| Time for a change. Need some Advice You got bad advice. C4 needs more space. You should not be closer than three feet to the back wall - very bad listening position. Diffusion will not help bass which will be bad near a wall.You need something like ATC SCM 25 or 50 in a nearfield co... | |
| PMC MB2 Se Simply Superb speakers. Not so common to find these in Canada even though they had an arrangement with Bryston. This is basically an ATC clone with some tweaks so slightly different presentation. ATC would be the closest sounding if you can auditi... | |
| Room Correction @bdp24 +1 Very good point. That would be my preferred way to do it. | |
| Best music of 2017 @dougsat +1 Imelda May. Jeff Beck’s Rockabilly buddy Darrel Higham put me on to Imelda May. He liked her so much they are married!I think QOTSA Villains is also really good. | |
| Room Correction Above all avoid speakers with very narrow dispersion - they have very small sweet spot and never sound natural except in an open space. | |
| 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. |