shadorne
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| 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... | |
| 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... |