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| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical awise1961. How do you separate the affects of the DAC from the rest of the piece, the analog section, the power supply, etc. as the price goes up? | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical Kofibaffour That's not an answer. Are the differences digital or analog or both? And what are they? Plus more expensive gear usually is better if it's well designed for obvious reasons. How was the $3000 barrier defined? | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical But then what is it about ultra costly DACs that make them different, custom filters or better analog electronics? | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Most people prefer Non tight bass, especially at first listen. It sells better even though it's less accurate. That's one of the reasons bass reflex bass loading has taken over from closed box. Reflex loading has fuller , richer sounding bass but ... | |
| Favorite Tribute Albums? What's That I Hear? A tribute album to the songs of Phil Ochs a great writer of the 60s and 70s and a tragic figure after he lost his voice in an attack in Africa. The Crucifixion, a favorite all time of mine, is a masterful tribute to John Kenned... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound Where most speakers err in speed is the decay more than the attack. Poor decay muddles the sound and affects the next attack plus it reduces dynamics because it creates a higher noise floor for following tones. For what it's worth, Gordon Holt, t... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations Why not covert them to the active version? Every ATC review I read that compares active ATCs to passive ATCs prefers the active versions. Getting rid of the passive crossover parts that are hard to drive adds to the dynamics you want. For what it'... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass Part of the problem is most sub woofers only have a low pass filter to roll them off where they mesh with the main speaker. If they also had a high pass for the main speaker to reduce the load on it, then the small main speaker could play much lou... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area I've often thought of woofer speed not as acceleration but deceleration. The ability to stop fast is also speed and it affects the following tones since if it hasn't stopped it partly obscures the next tones and it reduces the dynamics since the n... | |
| Is my Dynaco Stereo 400 worth repairing for resale? Interesting you mention the Rectalinear X. I tried to find a pair unsuccessfully in the late 1960s. I found it a fascinating speaker, sort of an augmented full range speaker with a whizzer cone mid range used from 100 Hz to 8kHz, a 10 " acoustic s... | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? Don't limit your self to just moving iron. Classic moving magnet cartridges can have low moving mass. For instance the lowest of all was probably the old Technics EPC100 MK4 with resonance at 100 kHz. Unfortunately it's not available any more. A g... | |
| Standmount speaker suggestion It's been a while since I heard Joseph speakers. But over the years I have been super impressed that EVERY time I heard them(usually at shows where there are often room problems) I have always found them to sound smooth and yet detailed if you lis... | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... It is the whole system which, of course, begins with the input and ends with the room. But like any chain every link matters. If any link fails the system fails. But in some ways the input could be thought of first. The rest of the system is basic... | |
| Is this a new trend? yogiboy, Acoustic suspension was instrumental in the early design of small speakers but it is essentially dead these days. Thiel/Small research into the design of bass reflex speakers allowed the design of small ported speakers which are more effi... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? Primarily to only add to the discussion. I had demonstrated to me by my friend Murray Zeligman and David Berning that full loop negative feed back was deleterious to linearity(a Berning amp with variable feedback and as the feedback was reduced to... |