willemj
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| Need help selecting a system with Tidal streaming (Maybe MQA) and speakers for around $1k. See here for the - sadly pretty terrible - measurements of the Sprout: https://www.stereophile.com/content/ps-audio-sprout-integrated-amplifier-measurements | |
| Best player for Spotify Chromecast Audio is a great and very affordable starting point at $35. Analogue output is pretty good at Spotify resolutions. If you like it you can always later use its optical digital output and invest in an external DAC (the DAC is where the so... | |
| Room acoustics Thanks very much. This is interesting. You can clearly see that things get dirtier below the Schroeder frequency, even with your orange tree (wish I could have them in our climate). If and when you use a computer as a source, you could use it to e... | |
| Need help selecting a system with Tidal streaming (Maybe MQA) and speakers for around $1k. A Behringer UCA 202 usb DAC would be good enough for this purpose. | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Jinjuku, thanks for this. I am afraid many are still in denial, and will remain so. Grannyring (nice name - I am a cyclist too), are you willing to submit your cable to the same test? | |
| New and searching The speakers are clearly the weakest link and always have the biggest impact on the final sound. So I would spend the full budget on those, unless you also want to go into streaming audio.As for speakers, how about the Harbeth SuperHL5+? I am not ... | |
| THE LITTLE BLACK BOX, 399.00 ABSOLUTLY NUTS Long live the stupidity of the rich. | |
| Cable recommendation between Dac and Integrated amp Balanced is demonstrably better, if you can do it. Beyond that, I believe much of this is a snake oil business. So why not go to Benchmark or Bryston for good and affordable cables? | |
| Best Subwoofer for Quad 2805 under $5k You are dead right. The clarity of the 2805’s is in no small part due to their dipole character. Dipoles excite far fewer room modes, so bass is smoother, tighter, and ’faster’. So combining an ordinary subwoofer with a dipole like the Quads shows... | |
| Need help selecting a system with Tidal streaming (Maybe MQA) and speakers for around $1k. I have been in a similar predicament because my research sometimes takes me abroad for a semester or more. These days, streaming is the way to go, and the easiest way to do that now is to use a Chromecast Audio (if you have decent wifi). Its analo... | |
| THE LITTLE BLACK BOX, 399.00 ABSOLUTLY NUTS It is one of many examples of greedy business practices in the audiophile market, and naive customers who take this for granted because they have allowed themselves to be persuaded that normal technical rules of the game do not apply. As someone r... | |
| Room acoustics And for those of you with decent French there is a wealth of information here: http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/acoustique/ | |
| Should I buy a new cd player or DAC or both or neither? Unless yo also want to watch video, in which case an Oppo 205 will serve very well as a multiformat disc player, DAC and preamp. I really think integrating a tv screen into a high quality stereo system is a good idea. It gives very good tv and vid... | |
| Amp selection for someone on a modest budget... I recently bought a 2x250 watt Yamaha P2500s pro audio amplifier for my son (to be used with Harbeth M30.1 speakers). The price was 300 euro, or $350 (incl tax). Its bigger brother the 2x350 watt P3500s was tested thoroughly here http://www.homeci... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I have a clear preference for solid state as a superior technology for often better sound and for lower power consumption. If a simple plug in can reproduce the tube sound, it should make you think. |