shadorne
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| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? Artemis_5No worries. Your loss not mine. i thought my setup was listed but perhaps I made a mistake. I use large ATC and have their largest subwoofer. Woofers are all 15 inch...I suspect REL work best with speakers that have 6 inch or smaller woof... | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia Strange choice of photo for the article - a bunch of no nonsense ATC speakers. The article is more about extreme stuff that looks as wildly different as it sounds. The author seems bemused but actually gets it! | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? If you subject a device to all kinds of vibration and high SPL levels at max volume and you get nothing above the noise floor then why would you be concerned about isolation?unless you have irrational fears.... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Interview discussing microphony and other design choices. The important takeaway is that some designers choose to tackle power supply and microphony issues and others ignore them. If you buy a DAC that is not designed to eliminate these issues the... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? The need for isolation is entirely dependent on the design of your DAC. It is possible to design both an excellent power supply and a non-microphonic DAC - in this case any treatment is pointless: it won’t do harm but certainly won’t do any good.U... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? I guess it depends what speakers they are paired with. Given that many audiophile speakers struggle above 95 db and distort and compress heavily then REL actually will integrate much better than other subs.The distortion and compression have given... | |
| Audio Research Foundation Series iPhone or iPad analog audio out is pretty good considering the price point. | |
| Which dac or other suggestions The Gustard X20 Pro with Singer SU-1 sounded as good as a $2000 previous generation Benchmark DAC 2 to me. That would be my budget recommendation. | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/subwoofer-tests-archived/991-rel-storm-5-a.html+ Good shape of the frequency response for smaller rooms+ Good extension+ Extremely low group delay and fast decay rate+ Extremely low crossover setting- High ov... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? Rel were among the best in the early days of subwoofers but they don't come to mind even in the top 10 these days IMHO. | |
| How Is MQA Fareing? No idea about MQA progress but Tidal Masters often sound excellent and that is what I am very happy about.I have a theory that high frequencies generated in excessively high resolution help with DAC performance ....a kind of dither if you like as ... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Yeah for sure... me, Paul and Ringo were chatting about this very topic last week and we are all agreed ;-) | |
| Bluesound Node 2 as DAC for CD player? Good grief ...Bluetooth is definitely not for audiophile streaming ... why bother with Tidal at all.... | |
| Best small used monitors under $1000 ATC SCM 11 or Genelec 8020 or KEF R300 | |
| What sample rate should I choose? Best is if you can purchase Bitperfect and then enable it to set Audio Midi to automatically set to whatever file resolution you happen to play... all on the fly.Alternative set Audio Midi to 24 bit 96 KHZ and then launch iTunes - everything will ... |