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| Weird Do you think it’s due to the acoustics of my listening space? My guess would be you’re sitting in a null created buy how both subs are interacting with your room and each other. Try playing with speaker positioning and your listening position ... | |
| After the thrill is gone Agree with @mikelavigne — it’s all about getting your preferences and a design’s trade offs to play nice together, and every speaker design has trade offs. So, from that perspective you damn well better choose the design that works best for your ... | |
| How do you like the Headphone Section in your Luxmans? Check out a Singxer SA-1. It’s fully balanced and operates in Class A, and at $599 new it’s certainly worth checking out. I can’t speak to Luxman headphone amps in their integrateds, but I think it’s fair to say for the most part they’re an afte... | |
| USB Noise filter on R2R DAC ? I’m not aware that an R2R DAC per se is any more noise resistant than any other DAC depending on whatever noise filtering is built into it as previously mentioned. I’d at least try throwing something like an Optical Rendu in front of your DAC. T... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? I think VH Audio? is another standup, high-value option to check out. So many options at this point it’s a bit mind boggling. Read reviews to thin down the herd and then buy used and/or go with a direct seller with a good trial policy. To me, b... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @larry5729 you are correct that Qobuz doesn’t offer MQA, but most people feel that’s a plus for Qobuz as MQA requires multiple unfolding and, as I understand it, MQA alters the original content to what some sound engineers think it “should” sound ... | |
| I have a feel good story.... My bad, I thought they were married and ran VTL together before she split off on her own. Sorry that I got that wrong. | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance But to convince me that there's any proportionate value of cables at the most expensive levels vs. a lot of electronics and speakers at the medium levels of price points is a tall order indeed. But that’s not what he’s saying here. In fact, th... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Before this well-intentioned post goes off the rails, let’s just take the positive thoughts for what they are. Someone found relatively little-known cables to sound much better for them in their system than much pricier cables from more well-known... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @jeffseight Why is it we have to provide scientific evidence to support our opinions but you do not? Where’s your scientific evidence to support Apple and Spotify sound better than Qobuz, cause I ain’t never seen anyone else on this site say that ... | |
| I have a feel good story.... From what I hear, Luke could learn a lot from his ex-wife when it comes to customer service at VTL. Then again, maybe that’s why she’s his ex-wife. | |
| Seeking Amp / Preamp Upgrades This is a bit of a different option, but you could buy a used McCormack DNA-1 amp for $1200 or less and have Steve McCormack do his full upgrades and be around $4k and a SOTA amp (he’s got my 0.5 RevA in for full mods now). Add a Linear Tube Audio... | |
| Seeking Amp / Preamp Upgrades What’s your budget? | |
| Help me choose speakers I’d get a pair of LSA-20 Signatures for $1699/pr. and a DSpeaker anti-mode 2.0 that can help deal with your room/placement issues. There’s one available here… https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisai689-dspeaker-anti-mode-2-0-dualcore-da-convert... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance My experience is similar to @charles1dad in that my Acoustic Zen and LavriCables as well as some VooDoo cables I demoed are detailed but also tonally full and natural sounding. I don’t think you can paint all silver cables with the same brush as ... |