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| MoFi controversy @sns I feel for the average audiophile. They are not technical. The are bombarded day in and day out by advertising, media articles by audio personalities, and comments by other audiophiles that are filled with a litany of incorrect information ... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? A course with a unit or two on room acoustics but no practical experience. That would explain the over the top suggestion of needing an architecturally accurate model and professional level modelling software when the response is almost always dom... | |
| If you demo or change one component do you change your setup? A Bright Shinning Lie. Would it make you feel better if I said that the author is exaggerating the impact of amplifier and speaker interaction variables on the final sound, at least in most pairings? Of course if I say that, I also have to say that for so many amplifier... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? How do you add authority or anything when there is nothing to add because the music does not contain those frequencies? Some music does, but far from all. 2- 6.5" woofers have the same diameter as a single 9". From a physics standpoint, because t... | |
| MoFi controversy Oh Mr. customer, I forgot one thing. While it is true the number of magnetic particles per second is high, it is a poor analogy to compare to digital. A tape head does not read single particles, It reads all particles under the tape head at once, ... | |
| MoFi controversy @budlite22 , coffee? I think you mean a good laugh: https://www.atrtape.com/sound-of-tape I don’t know what they were smoking when they wrote that, but they should have been reading instead. Tape does not sound more life like. It sounds like tape.... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? @jumia, volume = area * throw. Driver designers have gotten good at making longer throw woofers with low distortion. There are advantages to smaller drivers and a narrower cabinet. You can achieve better dispersion especially in a multi-way where ... | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement On come on @westcoastaudiophile , you don’t need and unlimited budget. The average audiophile product includes more than enough budget to implement an adequate power supply. The issues are often not the power supply at all or just require good des... | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement I will take that bet @jea48, friendly of course. I am sure there are lots of phile reports of Rhodium sounding wonderful. Not hard to find many listening reports from philes are are simply impossible. Has not been a barrier since the start of audi... | |
| MoFi controversy @aberyclark , neither Philips nor SONY invented DSD. Philips was the first to work on applying it to modern audio. Sony jumped on and they created the SACD standard. | |
| MoFi controversy @moonwatcher it is probably best to learn from people who understand how this technology works and people who think they do. There are too many philes that fall into the latter camp. DSD samples more often, but its sample size is much larger. It ... | |
| Is this an alternative to Stromtank and PS Audio ? Possibly. You can set it to charge in the middle of the night, then run it off batteries when listening to your stereo. Don't be surprised if it has a loud fan though. Also don't be surprised if when someone turns it on/off for you, you cannot hea... | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement @carsbad. Pure sine wave inverters are not very expensive at all really. I can buy a 1000W unit out of Asia that will produce a fairly accurate sine wave for < $100. They are a dime a dozen on Amazon, Alibaba, etc. At light loads they produce g... | |
| MoFi controversy @moonwatcher, what engineers do you know who believe that PCM does not even come close and that DSD256 and better is perfect? You have been listening to Paul's spiel at PS Audio a bit too much. I don't think he is an engineer in any sense of the ... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? @engineears while I agree with some of what you say, I disagree in principle and fact with a lot of it. Bass nodes, the high and low peak are totally predictable. There are even simple tools on the web to help. Those nodes are always a function o... |