fsonicsmith

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Your single most significant purchase mistake?
@cleeds & other Aurender N100H folks: I have had similar troubles, although to date Ari has got me back & running. Question: knowing this will be just a temporary component on my digital side, WITH WHAT DID YOU REPLACE the N100H? I have... 
SW1X Audio Design DAC III balanced S
I have the DAC III Balanced. Bought it through Joe Cohen, and I am therefore an original owner.  I would add more comment but with your total absence of posting history coupled with the nature of your first post I will abstain, thank you.   
Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference?
I haven’t heard them nor am I apt too. I haven’t heard Border Patrol either nor am I apt too. I could use DSP and EQ the crap out of them so perhaps awful is to strong a word, maybe extremely nonlinear is what I should have said. Mind blowing.... 
Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference?
 or those awful Volti's.  This is what makes talking about this hobby rather than just listening to our systems so fun-divergent opinions. I don't own Voltis or AN's, but do own a pair of O/93's. I very much like my O/93's but don't love them. ... 
Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference?
One day when the virus contagion is under control there will be these events called "audio shows" again. I highly recommend Axpona. It gives all of us the opportunity to hear the range of moderate to cost-no-object systems. Many times the extremel... 
LSA 20 Statement Speakers
I have reached a certain point in my audio life where I won’t put up with shortcuts or manufacturer-opted compromises. At least no more than I have to put up with. If you look at my profile you will see signs of that. I have since added two headph... 
LSA 20 Statement Speakers
  I've said this before in another similar thread. Somewhere in China there is a factory that cranks out hundreds of thousands of these curved enclosures and anyone who orders a sufficient minimum quantity can customs-spec the cut-outs. Baltic ... 
AKM makes the best DACs
@melm  Great post. The main intent of my post is to point out that optimum DAC design is osteopathic and not allopathic. Treat the system and not the symptom. And I say this as a lawyer who sees only MD's as doctors.   
AKM makes the best DACs
Funny [to me] that Chord gets mentioned because imho Chord is a company that in Ahab fashion focuses so much attention upon the DA chipset at the expense of many of the other things that matter like the input and output stages. A good DAC should b... 
AKM makes the best DACs
To simply say what others have said differently, your statement is tantamount to stating "The GE 9X jet engine makes the best jet plane". I try my best to resist the "what I have is best" tendency so often demonstrated on this Board and all audio ... 
The worst sentence in audio writing
Just not true. I wish it were though. It would invalidate about 99.7% of Mikey Fremer's audio writing. As an aside, does anyone want to participate in a one year over and under and to when Mikey will finally shut up about his new electrical scheme... 
I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time
Say what you will about the basic tenets of the mental construct "PRAT", unlike the adjective "musical" at least it is an ethos.   
I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time
Without meaning to be snide, I believe finding PRAT unexpectedly is like finding the face of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip.   
Antique Sound Labs
Joseph Lau is not “unfound”. I trade email with him from time to time and have purchased audio accessories from him at good prices. He is a joy-and a wealth of practical experience and knowledge.  
Transmission line speakers!
I started designing Transmission line speakers in the mid '70's. They can be real good for the money. These days I use a ported cabinet design because you can get a better final performance curve. Though not a speaker designer, this meets with ...