brianlucey
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| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. Well to be fair sounding "bad" to me is "interesting" to others. The older Boulder sounds like one would expect from the design. I was just hoping they had pulled a magic trick. The center image power was non existent, the shape of the freq bal wa... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. Up to you @simao ... It's all balanced, and I have not used the new one. It has a nice DA as well, he keeps upgrading the DA as one would expect. | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. @jond Yes mods could work on the BAT without transformer, 6 caps a side on the 42 I think would be a good path, but it’s not worth the hassle. Sonicraft Jeff does my mods, he’s a genius with great ears.@dweller "I listened to some equipment and d... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. Parts matter, yet Dave Hill knows what he’s doing. Avocet distortion is in the range of .001% at +20 dbu -3db is up between 200 and 300KHzMy listening tests are not "respectable"? A rude and ultimately hilarious reply. Listening is what I do all ... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense Great topic.44.1 is enough, I use it daily. The AD converter matters far more, as does the engineering. It's not about sample rate.What matters to us reflects where we are on the hearing scale vs. where we are in the room. Our listening evolves... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax Good to see people coming around to the dog and pony showAs an engineer I have been very concerned about a world of MQA audio, marketed as equal to or better than the master.It's not. Equal. Or Better. At all. Period.Making a playback system ... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart As a mastering engineer who has heard pre and post MQA for what it is, please ... it’s not a "good sound". 24 bit files are all we need, to be "in the studio" and to "hear what the artist intended"Unless you like harmonic distortion and Mid/Side e... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! "It's all subjective" is what MQA is selling now, because the idea that it's equal to the source, lossless, has failed.What is more important is that mastering engineers like myself are playing NO PART in the bulk processing of catalogs with MQA, ... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! It’s actually not all subjective. Science is a real thing. It allows us to listen to music in the first place as we know and love.There are facts. There are opinions.Let us please differentiate between Fact and FeelingFacts:Is MQA equal to the sou... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world Expensive speakers wow most people. Bling factor. The best speakers in the world to my ear, are the Canalis Allegra by Joachim G and A Perkins. | |
| What's the weak link in my system? If you don't know ... then nothing is weak. Once you hear something, you will know. | |
| Aurender upgrades Tidal - MQA -Only for A10 and 20 - lesser models not worth their time Just keep in mind as you rush to spend money on the latest tech that MQA will fail. Bob's stated aim is to change all music production to AD-Processing-DA with MQA not just DA over PCM. Secondly, MQA is not "better than" the PCM source in 99% of... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... Good enough is usually a losers creed ... a lazy way to go ... yet in this case ... 16 bits is absolutely good enough. What matters more than 16 vs 24 bits? Everything. The engineering, the mastering quality, the mastering hardware and AD (if anal... | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? Kevin says "rich AB1" | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? Just buy it, you have to listen at home.VAC Kevin said they design these amps with a dozen sets of speakers and anything they do that makes 11 sound better and 1 worse is rejected. Class A or AB no matter as the input and driver are Class A and ... |