soix
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| Newbie help with headphone gift choice. Yeah, you want some higher sensitivity ‘phones if he’s driving them off a laptop or tablet. First, you did some good research and identified some really good candidates at the price point. Hard to say without knowing your brother’s sound prefere... | |
| Integrating video streaming into a dedicated audiophile system AWOL? Absent without leave? Are you looking to build a center channel and surround channels into this? What do you have for an AVP or do you even want one? Really a lot of missing info here. Please put in a little more effort/info to help us ... | |
| Need a new integrated, what say you? I’d splurge a little for this nice Hegel H190… https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650036672-hegel-h190/ Id also give the Belles Aria integrated a look. Best of luck. | |
| Fyne Audio F502 or Sonus Faber Sonetto V If these Joseph Audio speakers are still available they’d give you what you’re looking for and save you some good $$$. They completely disappear and throw off a deeeep 3D soundstage like few other speakers, and they have lots of detail/air but pr... | |
| I2S cable recommendations Nice DDC BTW! I think u gonna be way happy with the results. | |
| Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC +1 @hilde45 Very well stated. In a similar vein I’ve also found I want my best and least colored cables more toward my source components and do more “shaping” of the sound more downstream. Like Linn says (heavily paraphrased), you can’t replace wh... | |
| Newbie help with headphone gift choice. What’s your budget? Also, would he prefer closed- or open-back ‘phones? Closed-back seal out sound from getting in or out while open-backed ‘phones allow outside noise in and also leak sound out into the room. I much prefer the sound of the lat... | |
| DAC as pre amp Or maybe the DAC doesn’t provide enough signal boost for the amp to work optimally. Either way, the only thing that matters is that the OP likes what he hears. | |
| Invert ? @larryi Nice explanation. Thanks! | |
| Speaker placement Quandary It’s spelled “bass,” not “base.” Argh. | |
| Interesting video on cables Outside of all the measurements it comes down to what folks hear and in my system at least cables have made a difference. There are many other folks here who would make the same claim. Booyah!!! Well said and goodonya! | |
| I2S cable recommendations Some people here have said good things about this DH Labs HDMI cable and they make good, high-value cables so you certainly could do worse… https://silversonic.com/products/digital-cables/hdmi-2-1/ Now, some folks who’ve upgraded to more $$$ HDMI... | |
| Blown tweeters I thought Talon has been out of business for many years. Am I wrong? Best of luck in finding a fix! Love Pulsars BTW! | |
| Speaker placement Quandary Nice system! My dedicated listening room is similar in size to yours, and I have my speakers placed almost exactly as you have yours. I have smaller 2-way towers that would benefit from some bass reinforcement if I moved them back a bit, but it co... | |
| Looking for a great phono pre-amp in the $1000 or less range Depends mostly on what improvements you’re looking for and what sound characteristics are most important to you. |