westcoastaudiophile
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| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @mapman +100 "Wow this Amir guy really knows how to ruffle some feathers in these parts. Maybe he’d be better off just offering up opinions like most everyone else." | |
| Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless "Every Denon and Marantz review is done with prior consultation with the company" LOL! -what is your price tag for “agreed" review? | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers "Well there certainly was something romantic about analogue tape" -practical too, (too) many of sound tracks we run, original or remixed, are originated from studio tapes | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers @rok2id "Because speakers are driven at low impedance (typically 4 or 8 ohms) and high current, speaker cables are, for all practical purposes, immune from interference from EMI or RFI, so shielding isn’t required” -there is a loop inductance of t... | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers @millercarbon +1 "the final arbiter of fidelity is the listener" | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @millercarbon +100 "it can be very useful to measure certain parameters, in order to quantify progress in design changes, especially changes that might be below the threshold of audibility" - manufacturing of components includes key measurements ... | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers "How honest you think the reviewers are?" it depends who pays for review! | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better talking about “measurements” without specifying details is pointless. one measurement to shed a light on how good system is integrated would be measuring sound distortions, phase and FR in actual room, at listener point. you will be surprised wit... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @jumia +1 "Most class D stuff is all about fitting lots of power in a small package." +at lowest cost | |
| Cartridge recommendations @listener2 zephyr mk3 is “normal” output, MM cart, any good phono pre should work, - enjoy! | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @atmasphere "But to be fair, lots of tube amps can do this too, through” I wish you (really) good luck matching tube amp with D-class Amp! | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @atmasphere "Honestly no-one can hear that.” sure, if you give me $100,000 budget for output filter alone, I can design output filter with close to 0 Ohm ESR caps and 0 Ohm ESR inductors etc.. :-) what about reference sampling clock purity, do ... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @fleschler in your case Ti BB outdated DAC chip could be limiting factor by itself.. also, I don’t see post-DA converter and filter / ref-clk design details, therefore it’s hard to say what affects midrange in your case. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @atmasphere I’ve seen any king of while spectrum noise in different D class amps.. never sine wave! higher freq. though! higher switching freq. amps theoretically should be easier to filter noise out, but again, switching frequency generator has t... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @larrykell there is a max current limit through the speaker.. I agree, there is advantage of having more output transistors in parallel to extend output stage linear region and to dissipate heat, which reduces distortions at high power end, but u... |