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| Are the new Ohm Walsh speakers Audiophile quality? I’d caution against assuming the new Ohm’s are like the originals. The originals had true time and phase coherent bending wave Walsh drivers without electronic cross-overs and had circular dispersion. The originals were also less efficient and les... | |
| Looking for Forte 1A 50w Class A replacement for Thiel 3.6s Honestly, for the Thiel 3.6's the Forte' can easily be improved upon by an amp that truly has the current to deal the Thiel 3.6's impedance load. Ideally you'd have an amp capable of at least 400 Watts into 2 Ohms. Or a 100 Watt amp that can doubl... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? During the early '70's saw Johnny Winter in Madison Square Garden, I can't remember how, but, I some how ended up in the front row and the crowd which started off as surly got downright nasty. Beer bottles flying all over, hundreds of people rush... | |
| Ohm F remodel options @mapman, I know this response is quite late 😄, but I think part of the reason GP chooses a top down approach is to keep the cross-over out of the more critical higher listening frequencies, Which might be even more noticeable with their time accur... | |
| DAC as a preamp? OK, enjoy! | |
| Thiel Owners ^...”...3/4 volume ...”... isn’t really relative. | |
| DAC as a preamp? In a recent past post I suggested that one could expect 12 dB attenuation per bit. I posted that in in reference to a recently read report by ESS regarding their “hyper threading” Saber 32 bit DAC. I can’t seem to find that report to offer a hyper... | |
| Bass Vs speaker efficiency I think when many people refer to “tight” bass they are trying to express a juxtaposition to the perhaps more common “loose bass”. A sealed box will often provide tighter bass than a ported box, but if comparable bass output is to be achieved, the... | |
| DAC as a preamp? I suggest trying the DAC direct, you might find the pre superfluous, perhaps even less satisfying than going direct. You might want to confirm return policies and restocking fees for the pre and extra cabling before committing. | |
| Thiel Owners ^...”...every budget...”....really? | |
| DAC as a preamp? I’m fairly confident that you won’t have issues with the two lower sensitivity speakers, the higher ones might (?) be a bit more challenging. Still, with a 32 bit DAC you’ll have at least (!) 8 bits to spend without worry of bit stripping and each... | |
| DAC as a preamp? Only a few R2R's with the extra bits that Delta Sigma have towards volume attenuation. | |
| Spotify HiFi I'm most curious at to what platforms and what the requirements need to be met from those platforms to accommodate Spotify HIFI, will those platforms be proprietary, what it will actually offer, where it will be available, when it will be availab... | |
| DAC as a preamp? @flaxxer, are they spec’d at 1 Watts @ 1 meter or 2.83 Volts @ 1 meter?Are those the nominal or minimum impedances?BTW, the 4 Volt output on the DAC is via it's balanced XLR output, the passive Schitt and buffered First Watt B1 will only accept th... | |
| DAC as a preamp? @flaxxer, what is the sensitivity of your speakers? |