willemj
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| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles I am surprised by the list. There is quite a bit of music that I like, but audio quality in analogue recordings from the sixties? | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio And since we are at it, here are my systems:Main systemChromecast Audio/TV/BD player+Quad 33/606-2+Quad 2805+B&W PV1d/Antimode 8033I still have a Quad FM3 tuner but it is no longer used (replaced by internet radio). Similarly, the Linn Sondek/... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio Right, I overlooked the tube cube. | |
| Power cord for digital stuffs? No less true. | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio And all of it good and perfectly rational engineering. | |
| Speakers are the first piece of the puzzle It is all about relative error. Distortion of even an affordable modern DAC is ultra low, and so is noise. Frequency response is amazingly flat, and better than the 0.2 dB limit of human hearing acuity.Solid state amplifiers are usually almost as ... | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? First, about methodology. Yes, a modern audioanalyzer like a DScope or Audio Precision is indeeed more discerning than even the best human hearing. They can measure subtleties that no human can hear because they are beyond the threshold of human h... | |
| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles Not an album, but a stream: this summer BBC Radio 3 has experimented with full red book standard 16/44 streams of live classical broadcasts (compressed in lossless FLAC). What was remarkable was that the average recorded level was much lower than ... | |
| Interconnect Cables If you really want to make a difference, forget about snake oil cables and use XLR instead of RCA. That is what the professionals do, and for a reason. See here for measurements: http://archimago.blogspot.nl/2017/06/measurements-oppo-sonica-dac-es... | |
| Reference disc player...UDP 205 or Marantz? Enjoy. | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Seat maybe, acoustics never. The difference does pose the question what the aim is of good audio equipement: the (impossible) recreation of a live event, given the physical limitations, or something else. | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? http://archimago.blogspot.nl/2013/05/measurements-toslink-optical-audio.html | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? I think the engineering science to design and produce a straight wire with gain reached sonic perfection in the 1980's. The next advance was in improved manufacturing technology that made such amplifiers considerably cheaper (unless you wanted the... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? It is indeed a dying market. | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Many tube amps do not have a decently flat frequency response under real loads (just look at the Stereophile graphs - they are often horrible). Often their response is tweeked to appeal to the subjective audiophile who thinks his hearing can beat ... |