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| Manley Amp is humming - troubleshoot :( Could also be bad output transformer, | |
| PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best. If innovations in developing this dac trickle down to more affordable dacs good for all of us. Otherwise, value is only known to those who purchase it.I presume cache of PS Audio goes up if dac reviews as state of art. | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? I've been modding for perhaps twenty years now, IME, both film and electrolytics have improved, I presume for all the reasons above. Really, very few choices years ago with boutique caps, most were general use variety. As I recall, the first audio... | |
| Noise floors My practical goal for the ambient noise floor has been met. Mid 20db has been totally satisfying. My intention for anything lower is theoretical. And I'd agree one wouldn't want a totally dead room, some ambience and/or noise is our natural enviro... | |
| Singer Songwriters Rarely Mentioned By Audiophiles I saw Lindsay lou and flatbellies not too long ago at microbrewery in Michigan. The Ragbirds similar sound, also hail from Michigan.Some of the older artists meaningful to me. David Ackles, Eric Anderson, Mary Black, Chuck & Mary Perrin, Tim H... | |
| Noise floors A lot there, having been a sociology major in school, I've been long aware of bias, misperception, etc. And so I agree our brains should be considered as a component of our audio systems, taken together with listening room easily should get as mu... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream https://dsd-guide.com/what-happens-when-your-streaming-service-dies#.YQVllUApA2wstreaming | |
| Noise floors Thanks unrecievedogma, you get it. Have you measured your typical ambient noise floor? This article mentions typical recording studio ambient noise levels are mid 20db and explains the importance of ambient noise floors. https://mojodigitalmusic.c... | |
| Why the cost increase? None of this surprising. I'm not even going to get into micro economic analysis. Crazy pricing within individual markets is likely to be the new norm going into future. I believe we are now in the beginning days of a new realization of increasingl... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Yep, streaming can be complex undertaking, so many routes available, constant change and innovation. Unique solutions are far more rule than exception. The only advice I can give is every link in chain matters in optimizing streaming sound quality... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality Maximizing streaming sound quality requires optimizing every single link in chain, not a simple undertaking. And then, as others have mentioned, the provenance of recording extremely important. My preference for cd rips or streams is extremely var... | |
| Can we talk about Qobuz for a minute I'm running both Tidal and Qobuz through Roon, seems I prefer sound quality of Qobuz, more long term satisfaction, not necessarily poor sound quality from Tidal. I also prefer Qobuz greater focus on European and/or international music vs. Tidal hi... | |
| Noise floors Hilarious, I did mention my preferred listening rooms, don't recall anechoic chamber being one of them. I guess you take plenty of meds, altered mind can't detect micro dynamics, probably listen to all highly compressed recordings at high volume l... | |
| Noise floors And to make it even more crystal clear, even macro dynamic range is quite variable. Roon provides a dynamic range index with each recording, this is the difference between the loudest and softest volume on any one track or cd/album, this is variab... | |
| Noise floors You don't get it. The problem isn't when music is at 85db, its during the quiet passages, music may be at only 50, 60db, perhaps lower. Unless all you listen to is highly compressed music at high volumes, bring on the fireworks, furnace sounds, lo... |