yoyoyaya
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| Tube preamp topologies and music A OP - As to your specific question, single ended 300B amps tend not to be very well controlled in the bass - even with efficient speakers. A 300B valve is only good for a couple of watts before it starts to distort. A say eight to ten watt adver... | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers @OP - Do you need to put the speakers on an actual bookshelf? The room isn't that small so unless there is no floorspace, you could look at floorstanders too. | |
| Sonus Faber Electa Amator III vs. the Bowers and Wilkins 805 D4? @OP As previous posts have said and well described the differences between two quite different sounding loudspeakers. Although harder to find in the US, it would be useful to listen to a pair of Harbeth M30.2XDs as a point of comparison. And for a... | |
| Borresen X1 & X2 @OP. I was listening to the X1s last weekend. There is nothing strange about the height of their imaging. It's exactly what you'd expect from a two way standmount. | |
| Digital LP’s +1 jji666. Part of the bad reputation of CD arises because a lot of the ADCs and DAC's in the early days of CD weren't capable of true 16 bit resolution. Since then there have been significant improvements in converter and filter design that have ... | |
| Digital LP’s There's still loads to unpick in this interesting discussion. The vinyl production process is different to that for CD because on top of the choices made by the mastering engineer, the cutting engineer has to make a set of additional choices over... | |
| Digital LP’s Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than a 16 bit CD. But for pop and rock music dynamic range is pretty irrelevant as most recordings are compressed into a very narrow dynamic range window. Perceived differences between vinyl and CD are very de... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? @OP - am I correct in my interpretation of your post that you took the analogue audio output of the iphone into one of the analogue inputs of the PrimaLuna? That being the case, I have to say that I am surprised that a dedicated streamer/DAC does... | |
| An Amp Nobody Talks About, Bricasti Design @OP, I'll be recording with it soon! | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo Anything by Chantal Chamberland, preferably heard on SACD. I'm a bit surprised at the number of early digital recordings that have featured in the posts so far - Brothers in Arms, Body and Soul, and the Nightfly, all of which IMHO, show up the fa... | |
| An Amp Nobody Talks About, Bricasti Design Bricasti's M7 reverb has become one of the standard go to studio hardware reverbs - for lots of people have heard Bricasti even if they don't know it! | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @OP. Wilson Maxx IIs are now down around €10K. Unlike many older Wilson speakers, they are not forward sounding and will give you the scale that you need for rock music - but sound good on everything when properly set up. ProAc are also a good ch... | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? @roxy54 - thanks. As it happens, my rooms is pretty much the same size as yours - 14 x 12 x 9.5. I would love if it were two feet bigger all round, but I'm not moving house for it and, with appropriate treatment, it sounds pretty good. | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? The size/price ratio in Europe is different to the US so moving to a bigger house (in a suburban location) is not a realistic option. When I bought my current house, the overarching criterion was that it be detached - an awful lot of suburban hous... | |
| Need recommendations on 15ft speaker cables @OP Audioquest make their cables in pretty much any length you want. |