willemj
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| Oppo UDP - 205 Speakers and their interaction with the room are by far the weakest link in any system. Just look at the distortion numbers and frequency response graphs. DAC’s or amplifiers are so much better that the differences between them (if audible at all)... | |
| System Upgrade Recommendations Why not buy a second REL T7 and a DSpeaker Antimode 8033 room eq? It will give you somewhat more power and dynamics, plus a much cleaner bass.How big is the room? The 110 watt per channel in stereo mode of the Marantz is pretty decent as long as t... | |
| Underspent on speakers relative to overall system? So don't waste money on voodoo science cables, and invest in serious speakers. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? The Wireless World publication of the underlying research is here: http://www.keith-snook.info/wireless-world-magazine/Wireless-World-1978/Valves%20versus%20Transistor... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I agree that that link was real fun. However, it reflects exactly what has been found in other double blind tests. Personally, I was once Peter Walker of Quad fame's guest at a blind demonstration of his three famous amplifier designs. At the time... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? http://matrixhifi.com/ENG_contenedor_ppec.htm | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Duke,Your Swarm system is indeed interesting and sounds like the theoretically correct solution, even if one with rather a lot of boxes in the room. In my case, I think I will continue to save for a second PV1d, used with the Antimode, as a domest... | |
| Quad 2905 versus Quad 2805 plus subwoofer I have my sub filter set at 33 Hz and a steep 4th order slope, so probably with a bit less overlap than you have. | |
| what speaker cable do you use on the Evolution Acoustics MM3 speakers or Harbeth speakers. If cables have a sonic signature there is something wrong with them. Fortunately, even cheap ordinary cables can be completely neutral, unilke many boutique cables. | |
| Best Tube/SS Amps for Harbeth 7ES-3 Alan Shaw never said that all amplifiers sound the same. Amplifiers can sound different for a number of reasons. The first is if the input sensitivity is too high, as is all too often the case. This may sound impressive, but what you are hearing i... | |
| Underspent on speakers relative to overall system? Even a dirt cheap Chromecast Audio is a bitperfect perfect source, and the electronics further down the chain need not be that expensive either. See here for a test using an Audio Precision test bench of the 2x350 watt Yamaha P3500s power amp that... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters I have tried to imagine what is meant by fast or slow bass. It cannot be the speakers themselves for reasons that have been explained. My hypothesis is that what people are referring to is really the delay that is visible in waterfall graphs of ba... | |
| Sound via laptop vs phone vs tablet OK, my misunderstanding. And that should indeed all produce the same datastream, and bits are bits, so there cannot be any difference (are you not imagining things - the audiophile curse?). Unless of course the datastream is somehow compromised by... | |
| Sound via laptop vs phone vs tablet There is quite bit of confusion here. The format of the stream is irrelevant, because you are using the same stream in all three cases. However, you are using the analogue output of the three devices, and they each have a different inbuilt DAC. Th... | |
| Can you hear the difference? The lower the bitrate the easier it is to tell the difference, that is no surprise. The question is if there is any point on the spectrum where lossy files cannot be distinguished from losslessly compressed files like FLAC. The BBC have done some ... |