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| How does sound influence your appreciation? It could be that a bad sounding system leaves only the musicianship to be appreciated, so it differentiates more than a good sounding system, which also reveals the pleasing sound qualities of the instruments, voices, and the concert hall. Bad sou... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I used to be a big doubter that there could possibly be any difference that you are actually hearing rather than just perceiving due to expectations, subconscious or otherwise. I now am convinced due to first hand experience that things can get we... | |
| How does sound influence your appreciation? That’s interesting. I can’t say that sound quality has had much to do with my preference for the way music is played by the musicians. The closest match to that I can think of is that it seems my ear is more forgiving of musicianship when I’m hear... | |
| Interaural Crosstalk And Loudspeaker Setup The one single thing that bothers me most about interaural crosstalk is the cancellation dip that occurs at the ears for the phantom center. For a typical 60 degree triangle this first dip occurs around 2 kHz, which is about as bad a place for a d... | |
| Is it analog or is it digital? @dynamiclinearity It's unfortunate that class D amps are called class D since in audio D often stands for digital and the description of how a class D amp works(square waves) sort of sounds digital. Plus class D involves encoding albeit an anal... | |
| Physical degradation of CD's Of the few hundred CDs I’ve owned since the late 1980s only one quit working, and that wasn’t long after I bought it. To this day I’m not sure if it was really defective, or if I somehow damaged it. I'd be more concerned about the CD players bec... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery The 0.7 ms time delay correlating to inter-aural distance is an interesting point. Listening to the effect at -10 dB reminds me of what I hear in the phantom center on a typical stereo listening triangle. It's darker sounding compared to sounds pa... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery This is a mathematical certainty - no hand waving at all. Agree. I'm convinced it happens. I'm not convinced it's typically an audible problem. I just did an experiment with 0.7 ms pre and post echo loud enough to be easily heard. At -10 dB the... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery https://src.infinitewave.ca/ Here's an interesting web app. to compare sample rate converters. I've definitely heard the weirdness that happens sometimes when digital goes off the tracks. If you play a sweep you hear very distinct echoes when thi... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery I can't find any mention anywhere of oversampling causing pre and post reflections. Can you site some references? | |
| The Great DAC Mystery I did some reading on the subject. I read the echo is under 1ms offset and -60 dB or more below the main signal. That’s really quiet, and not a lot of timing offset. The thing to show is if under any conditions anyone can pick up on that, maybe no... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery An interesting article about DAC filters and ripple: https://addictedtoaudio.com.au/blogs/how-to/how-to-pick-the-best-filter-setting-for-your-dac I remember reading a Stereophile article way back in the old days. One of the reviewers had got int... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? My M1 Mac Mini streams for me, and also receives streams from other devices, and can output 24 bit 192 kHz over 8 channels simultaneously. My Denon receiver has dacs that can handle that signal. I've seen the measurements of the receiver and they'... | |
| Interconnect Break In? I’m glad I read this thread because it reminded me to check all my cable contacts. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. For whatever reason I’m not one who can hear differences between cables, except in extreme cases, like interconnects or spea... | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? Unless you hear Magico speakers in a dedicated listening room where every detail has been addressed you're probably not going to hear their potential. This is true of any good speaker. I'm shocked by what even cheap speakers can do when I put ... |