yoyoyaya
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| 48kHz vs 96kHz: audible? This whole area is a bit of a minefield. The ideal way to test this hypothesis would be to take a piece of music that can be mechanically performed -using something like the technology that was used for the Zenph reperformance of the Goldberg Vari... | |
| WILSON ORIGINAL SOPHIA'S I haven't opened a pair of Sofias but I have worked on other Wilson where the driver terminals are soldered. The leads can be quite short and substantial, so desoldering/resoldering the drive units is not a trivial task. It needs a powerful iron a... | |
| Thinking of taking the plunge. I hate to say it again, but I will - Bluesound! | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question If you build the speakers yourself, you had better like them because you will find them difficult to sell. Unless you have a trade account, you will be paying a multiple of what the manufacturer pays for the components. There is also the opportuni... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? Absent an (active) preamp one is effectively listening to the source device's output stage, which is most cases has been designed to drive a preamp and not a power amp. In addition, many digital volume controls lose resolution at lower signal leve... | |
| Do you trust your system? The recording of a significant amount of modern pop and rock music goes way beyond the use of relatively simple eqs, compression and reverb that would have been the staples of the signal chain in studios before the advent of computer based recordi... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer I suppose D'Agostino is the Breguet of audio then. Watch/audio comparisons are utterly fatuous. In the context of this thread and the references to Fine Sounds, the Rolex comparison is particularly inaccurate seeing as Rolex is one of the few Swis... | |
| Your method for discovering great music. Roon credit lists and Roon radio as well, plus record reviews in various publications. I have also found the various qobuz lists to be of assistance but not as much as Roon radio since I tend to already have a lot of the material Qobuz lists. BTW... | |
| Strange ticking noise when amps were powered on from cold It seems pretty clear that the noise is thermally related - and notwithstanding the fact that changing valves didn't make a difference, mechanical noise from the tubes seems the most likely explanation. As the noise is very faint and only last's a... | |
| Tiny Room (6' x 9') speaker advice The original AE1 as a great speaker - not the best balanced tonally, but exceptional bass for the size of the box. However, they are a pig to drive - similar to a 3/5a. However, unlike the 3/5a the can handle the power required to drive them corre... | |
| Upgrade Reccomendations The Matrix 804s were, and are, perfectly good loudspeakers. That generation of B&W's were not as power hungry as the current D series. The 605s are not great sonically. I presume you still need the hybrid tube amp for your headphone setup, so ... | |
| CD transport vs.streaming Exactly, latik - well said. I'm not going to waste previous hours of my life ripping my CDs and I'm quite happy to listen to new music on Qubuz - along with continuing to listen to vinyl. | |
| Tiny Room (6' x 9') speaker advice A 5 litre box LS 3/5A-type speaker is the obvious choice. To widen the field, I suggest a listen to the Sonus Faber Lumina II. That said, if one is talking about literally reproducing the sound of a Strat through a Blackface Princeton, then your... | |
| Which Tweeter preferred- dome natural material, Beryllium/Metal or Planar Ribbon? Why? As has been said, any tweeter is only a good as the overall speaker design. The Focal Inverted Ti is a good case in point - a unit that can sound radically different in different applications. However, purely to expand the field, plasma tweeters ... | |
| Buyer Dispute @kirbymydog. You are right to keep pressure on the manufacturer. Given the big marketing push by B&W for the D4s, perhaps existing customers are being overlooked in favour of building new stock. The same is happening in the bike industry where... |