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| Best XLRs under $500 a pair What sound characteristics are you looking for? | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno I goofed by recommending the ATC SCM19 — the SCM40 v2 is in your price range and will add much deeper bass and even better dynamics. Just do it — you’ll be absolutely blown away. https://www.musicdirect.com/speakers/atc-scm40-v2-tower-speakers | |
| Upgrade Speaker Suggestions from Nautilus B&W 804S Take a look at Joseph Audio. IME they do everything better than B&W — no contest. Also, you really should really consider getting a proper stereo preamp — that preamp section of your AVR is doing your system’s performance no favors. Best of... | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno It seems like ATC and Sonus Faber may have very similar traits...since they both dedicate everything to a fantastic mid range. Nope. Not even close. The ATC mids are insanely overbuilt a produce more raw power than any other midrange drivers ... | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno Big +1 for ATC. They’ll knock you on your ass. https://www.musicdirect.com/speakers/atc-scm19-v2-bookshelf-speakers | |
| SVS sub owners, Past and Present With the purchase of a brand new pair of subs,my small listening room will have 4 subs. Nice,even smooth bass. Goodonya! With four subs I think a pair of SB1000s will be all you need and will save you $$$. I bet it’s gonna sound awesome, and ... | |
| Is there a DAC ranking list? Ranking lists are pretty useless as it comes down to what sound characteristics you like, not someone else’s list according to their own preferences that could well be different from yours. That said, given what your looking for take a look at ... | |
| HDMI cable for I2S Thanks guys! You answered my question. Interesting and most helpful. | |
| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps What preamp are you using now, and what sound characteristics/improvements are you looking for? | |
| Is an unbalanced preamp a bad thing? +1 @riley804 There might be marginal improvement using balanced connections if both amp and pre are fully balanced, but I don’t think it’s worth pursuing if you like what you’re hearing now. | |
| Bookshelf speakers - Paradigm, KEF, Totem There’s a nice pair of Joseph Audio Pulsars here now for only $3625 in the stunning Sapele finish. You won’t do better than this — hop on them before they go because they won’t last long. If they don’t work out you can sell them for little or no... | |
| HDMI cable for I2S I2s is another transmission method Yeah I know that. My question is if the the signal output for I2S via HDMI is different than that coming out of the SPDIF output? I’m not sure if there’s a native signal difference or if the difference is all... | |
| HDMI cable for I2S So, is an I2S signal different from a standard PCM signal? I’m still not clear on this. | |
| SVS sub owners, Past and Present Whatever you do you’re better off getting two subs rather than one. You can get two SVS SB1000 subs that will get you down to 20Hz for under $1k, which is a compelling value IMHO. Just a thought. Best of luck. | |
| HDMI cable for I2S The question should be, is the output from the OPPO truly I2S or standard HDMI? The HDMI output is PCM, same as what comes out of the SPDIF output. So I’m thinking there’s not much value in using an HDMI cable or if the I2S input on the Pegasus... |