shadorne
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| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total Any of the Stereophile Class A or A+ DAC should float anyone's boat. Why not burn your collection to a PC and get rid of the transport. Transports are inefficient and poor form a playback compared to a PC and a hardrive. Mac Mini has optical out o... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio @willemj +1 Absolutely. When a user reports a problem with their sound and an audible change happening with a change of wire. Instead of the dealer or salesman saying "Hang on, your high end gear is supposed to work properly and reliably with a va... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? @bar81 +1 Exactly how I read JA last paragraph. Full of euphemistic BS whenever the POS SOTA ultra expensive audio jewellry measured performance is poor in certain aspects. He is also careful not to compare products and be overly enthusiastic when... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? @Koost_amojan You are correct. The cost of the speaker is no reflection on the quality - especially the tweeter.The Excel Millenium Sonotex soft done tweeter has the best waterfall I have seen. It is expensive at around 200 euros per unit and ther... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! The C48 preamp is around 100dB S/N. I think you will find the Mytek is closer to 120 dB. This is probably due to the very quiet switched Mode power supply versus the Mcintosh traditional linear one.So it is possible that the C48 would dumb down th... | |
| Room Acoustics @willemj Good point about dynamic range. For the same reason a speaker that plays cleanly at 120 dB has just given you 30dB dynamic range over most speakers!There is not much you can do to get the ambient noise floor much below 40 dB but a speaker... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! The Benchmark DAC has excellent output and excellent volume control especially the XLR outputs which are very powerful. So powerful you may have to install the internal jumper resistors to reduce the output to an acceptalble level for your power a... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! +1 Benchmark but I would try it without the C48 and at 1600 used I would go higher and grab the DAC3 as it is their latest model. | |
| Directionality of wire Maybe it's just me but does anyone else notice it's almost always the most uh, obstinate repetitive salesmen, and no, I won't mention any names, who claim they hear it for perfectly good reasons (self interest)? | |
| Harbeth M30.1 vs B&W CM10 s2 For your taste in music the Harbeth are a fantastic choice. They have one on the world's best tweeters (Excel Millenium) and Harbeth mids are to die for. Not the last word in bass but miles better than the badly engineered B&W. | |
| Searching for the most "accurate" speaker (below 15K) I have not seen a good set of measurements for Paradigm Persona 3F but they do appear to be well engineered. The crossover at 2.4KHz is actually close to the right place for this three way design (which has a large 7 inch midrange) which is a mir... | |
| Which Speaker Manufacturers (Besides ATC or PCM Feature Large Soft Dome Mid? Linn and Ruark | |
| Which Speaker Manufacturers (Besides ATC or PCM Feature Large Soft Dome Mid? Neumann use ATC I think. PMC use two versions the Volt clone of the ATC super mid and a vifa/scanspeak 3inch fabric dome which has been used in a few other model of speaker.The problem with this type mid is that it is hard to build (double spider)... | |
| Searching for the most "accurate" speaker (below 15K) @vermeer Active ATC are slightly better than passive. KEF or TAD is a good choice too. I like the Harbeth mid and the Millenium Excel tweeter they use - among the best mid range. Their thin walled cabinets means the bass is somewhat of a matter of... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? @randy-11 Interesting link. I think they sum it up very well. Be is better in the very top octave than Aluminium or Titanium (10 to 20 KHz)Note that on the plots Be is not necessarily the best from 3 to 10KHz (the really important range musically ... |