willemj
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| Harbeth blog There are indeed quite a few more. Harbeth, however, are unique in that with a government research grant they developed a special polymer (which they call Radial) that was optimed for this application. Others mostly used ordinary polypropylene. Th... | |
| Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music In terms of streaming you are fine, esp. if you use the Chromecast's digital output. Its digital output has been shown to be bitperfect, and bitperfect is bitperfect. That digital output is relatively jittery, but not to the extent that a good DA... | |
| amp (or receiver) recommendation for Polk Audio RTi A7 floorstanding speakers Ah, you already own a decent usb etc DAC, at least that is what I understand the Focusrite to be (amongst a lot of other things)? Is that what I think it is? That makes it a lot cheaper, because all you perhaps need is an additional volume control... | |
| Harbeth M30.1+Luxman LX-380 & Audio Note AN-E/SPe Oto SE Sig I think with speakers much depends on the match between the speaker and the room. The Harbeth M30.1 are their smallest more or less full range speaker and a great speaker for a small to medium size room. If your room is one size bigger do go for t... | |
| Harbeth M30.1+Luxman LX-380 & Audio Note AN-E/SPe Oto SE Sig Of course that Luxman is gorgeous looking, but it is also underpowered. Alan Shaw, Harbeth’s owner and designer, recommends far bigger (solid state) amplifiers. See here for some discussion on the Harbeth User Group: http://www.harbeth.co.uk/userg... | |
| amp (or receiver) recommendation for Polk Audio RTi A7 floorstanding speakers OK, you seem to have reached a satisfactory solution for the small room and HT, using, as I uderstand it, the two smallest Polk speakers.That leaves the music room question. The thing you and only you can decide is in which room you will wantto li... | |
| Integrated CD transport/DAC with streaming capability I guess yours is a different reality than the facts of science and the rules of scientific enquiry. | |
| Dirac vs dspeaker room correction I agree, and the difference is much bigger than any other tuning tweak that gets passed around as the latest and greatest upgrade that is supposed to make a night and day difference. You can hear it, you can measure it and watch the graphs, and th... | |
| REL Vs SVS for 2 channel music listening I leave my Antimode Cinema on all the time. It will turn on automatically if you plug it in. Power consumption is really minimal.I don't believe REL are the only manufacturer of good subwoofers for music, however good they are. | |
| Integrated CD transport/DAC with streaming capability I am not sure there is anything to improve on in the Oppo. Someone may change the sound for big money, but is that better? | |
| Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music I personally think MQA is bogus, but if others prefer to believe otherwise that is up to them. Similarly I do not believe streamers themselves make much of a sonic contribution, if any. If there is one, it is in the DAC. For 16/44 all I can say th... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? And for a cheaper version of my two channel HT suggestion, and more so if you cannot return the LG disc player: a Yamaha AS 801 2x100 watt amplifier with optical, coaxial and usb digital inputs, plus the somewhat cheaper Harbeth C7ES-3 speakers.Un... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? I have come to think that the problems need to be adressed at the root. Speakers and their interaction with the room are responsible for 90% of sound quality:1 it is an illusion to think that it will ever be possoble to have really good sound in ... | |
| amp (or receiver) recommendation for Polk Audio RTi A7 floorstanding speakers See here for their M30.1, the smallest that I think you might use comfortably in the smallest of your two potential music rooms: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/harbeth-monitor-301-loudspeaker/Or here for their M40.2, their biggest and mo... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? OK. HT room sorted I would think. Are you using the room eq of your receiver?For the music room, I moved to your new thread. |