willemj
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| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience because.... | |
| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience Coming back to your original question, I think the best upgrade would be to look into the room. Buy yourself a calibrated measurement microphone, download REW into your computer, and have a look at the in room frequency response. You may be horrif... | |
| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience If there is a sonic difference it may come from a better DAC in your Marantz. However, other causes may be differences in signal level (louder sounds better) or because you may not be playing the same masterings (from what I understand you compare... | |
| On/Off Switch Indeed, but often the traditional incandescent lights on older gear are measurably worse. When my old Quad 303 power amp was refurbished a few years ago the service engineer showed me on the scope the improvement made by using a led compared to... | |
| Speaker Placement - When it's perfect! Please realize that the methods to be used above the Schroeder frequency (mostly somewhere between 100-200 Hz, depending on room size) are different from those to be used below.Moreover, the closer you sit to the speakers, the smaller the contribu... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC I do indeed think you may well have a gain mismatch between the DAC and the amplifier. What you described is precisely how this would sound like: clipping of louder passages.Part of the traditional criticism of digital comes from precisely this, a... | |
| On/Off Switch All this shows the futility of the power cable story. This is not to say that a decent power switch would not be a good thing. However, I would not start tinkering with mains voltage components. A well designed amplifier should have this covered, ... | |
| SACD vs. Blu-Ray for audio quality/sonics Some history from Philips research: https://www.philips.com/a-w/research/technologies/cd/technology.html | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio We need to distinguish between things that are a matter of taste (do you like candle light or halogen lights, or Bach or Metallica?), and things that are a matter of emperical reality (what is the colour temperature in degrees Kelvin of candle lig... | |
| stereo receiver recommendations The Yamahas are good and have the advantage that they have digital inputs as well, as does the Cambridge sr20 and the Outlaw. The Yamaha RN 803d also has room equalization built in. | |
| Room Correction Thanks, that is interesting, and Kenny’s subs do indeed look good. However, they are still too large in my situation. My B&W PV1d sits discreetly tucked right into the corner behind the Quads, and thus virtually invisible. That position (advis... | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? Well, my audiophile ideal is a completely neutral system that does not get in between me and the music as recorded. I do not want to be a surrogate mastering engineer, or take the place of the musician. I know this is an impossible ideal, but I at... | |
| which receiver new $1k or under Some good advice. Yes go for the beefiest you can find, even if the specifications can be spurious. As was said, the power supply is the part that matters, and its true specifications are often a closely guarded secret. This is not for nothing: it... | |
| Room Correction Absolutely. I looked into dipole subs, but there was nothing on the market here in Europe. Also, the designs that I saw were huge: how could I reasonably persuade my loving wife who already puts up with the Quad electrostats? | |
| SACD vs. Blu-Ray for audio quality/sonics There is indeed quite a bit of research that suggests that anything more than cd red book is unnecessary, but also some weak indications that a bit more might just make a tiny difference, but only just. Since the resolutions of Bluray and SACD ar... |