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| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions I had a Moodlab "Concept" dac years ago. As far as I know this used a simple R2R dac, and it had no oversampling and no output filter. I bought it out of curiosity, to see just how bad it would sound. I thought it sounded fine. Nothing special, no... | |
| Good to remember ... how to tell what sounds better An interesting take on how to determine your own long term preference when quick switching differences are obvious. I know when I had LP playback and digital of many of the same albums and could compare them at length I never did establish a prefe... | |
| Unbelievable 3-D imaging sound Seems like you've found sonic heaven! Roughly how are you set up? How far apart are the speakers? How far are you sitting from them? How far from the front wall? How big is the room? Just curious to know any details you'll share. | |
| Can an “audiophile” ever be satisfied with a system? Dittos to millercarbon. And others. Satisfaction isn't the goal for some of us. If I'm satisfied with the sound I might say to myself "fascinating," and then try the next interesting idea that comes along and that I can afford to implement. I stil... | |
| Your system quality vs. recording quality After listening to speakers with different dispersion patterns I'm fairly convinced that some recordings sound better with a narrower dispersion speaker, or a highly absorptive, well damped space. Other recordings seem to benefit from more ambienc... | |
| Did your system ever get so good it pushed you out of the house? I built some 5 way actives that sounded great to me. I was excited about optimizing them so started attending live, unamplified concerts. Some of the concerns I had about things I was hearing from the speakers turned out to be genuine effects of h... | |
| Flat screen between speakers, again. I had good results using absorbers placed inside of and slightly behind the speakers - between the speakers and the TV. These absorbed some of the sound coming off the sides of the speaker before it could hit the TV screen directly. I perceived be... | |
| When was the first time that you heard great sounding speakers? For me it was sometime in the late 80s visiting Bradford's Hifi in Eugene, OR. Their line up includes Magnepan and Vandersteen. The Magnepan were magical but I liked the overall balance of the Vandersteen better. Both were well beyond any speakers... | |
| As much as I try, I just don't get it........ I do find some of these recordings of speakers playing in spaces to be interesting. I don't expect to hear something great, but I am surprised at times how well it comes through, how little room coloration seems to be degrading the sound. If I'm h... | |
| Classical music, symphony AND planar speakers Dipoles don't send bass off to the sides, just front to back in the room. Most rooms suffer from "head end ringing," where the bass coming off the sides of the speaker bounces up and down off the ceiling and back and forth side to side off the sid... | |
| Absorb or Diffuse Behind Listening Position? The ASC Matrix panel is designed for when you are close up against the rear wall. It was tested by ear and has a combination of absorption and diffusion. https://www.acousticsciences.com/products/matrix-panel | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? maghister said: And it is a myth to think that tonal accuracy can be separated complety from imaging..I definitely agree with that. I've had my perception of image depth and spaciousness explode just by tweaking equalizer settings. | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that about Simon and Garfunkel recordings. And I agree with Glupson about AM radio and some of those songs, and classical for that matter. As much as I love high fidelity stereo there are times when simple mon... | |
| A moment when you realized better sound was possible. In the very early days of CDs I definitely heard some problems with them, although I was instantly enamored with the lack of pops, scratches, wow and flutter, and background hiss. One thing I could hear was a hissing around flutes that I didn't he... | |
| You can't have too many bass traps... Mike Lavigne, Just looking at pictures of your amazing room. Where are the bass traps in the back hiding? Is there scrim on the back walls? |