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| Better music player alternative to Mac Air / laptop Yep, I plan to try iFi iPower 2 or possibly LPS 12 volts next. Let me know please if you have positive experience with them. | |
| Thought I’d share: Nicely done and practical DAC review I like Darko's reviews too but I won't put all eggs in one basket when it comes to the purchase decision. I will cross reference with other reviews by the reviewers I thrust. | |
| Better music player alternative to Mac Air / laptop Finally, I tried out the iFi Zen Streamer when it is on sale for $299. I still has not streamed hi-res music from those music providers but simply played out the flac files from HDD. Wow, I wish I try earlier. The SQ is improved in every way as co... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I purposely avoided Class A because of the heat and chose high bias Class A / AB amp as a compromise. I enjoy the sound and anticipate a longer service cycle out of them (electrical charge was not the concern). I was also aware of class D technolo... | |
| Advice? Less than $4k, solid state preamp, neutral to gentle It is all about personal taste. According to Thomas (& Stereo), Pre90 is a colored preamp offering more forward, sharpening sound. When paired with a system that is already revealing, it might be too much of a good thing. It pushes the deta... | |
| Advice? Less than $4k, solid state preamp, neutral to gentle The impedance matches between preamp and amp and between dac and preamp are essential. The ratio of the successor input impedance to the predecessor output imp. should be as high as possible. As a rule of thumb, 10 is the minimum, 100 is preferrab... | |
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| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear I came across a pair of Legacy Focus SE and a pair of Vandersteen 3A at very good condition and affordable prices. Each speaker weighs 185 lb and 90 lb, respectively, however. Very tempting but decide to pass them on just because of weight fact... | |
| Just how many options does 1 need in a 2 way bookshelf design? Interestingly, the original 3-way Dovedale (1960) uses 12" woofer. Honey i shrunk the Dove ... https://www.petervis.com/gallery/Vintage%20Advertisements/wharfedale-hi-fi/wharfedale-dovedale-3.html | |
| Digital enhancement I am admittedly very confused. I actually paid close attention to Bacch-SP for a short while but could not get a good sense out of whether the processor/dac is doing something different or better out of recordings that are already great in soundst... | |
| Just how many options does 1 need in a 2 way bookshelf design? The wide dispersion characteristics of those small mid/woofers were actually a detriment to sound quality. Taking the driver size up a notch, thus intentionally limiting dispersion actually produced more detail, focus and imaging in the average r... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I am not sure if it is coincidental that SP10 shares close similarity with Tannoy Eaton in terms of specs. The faceted baffle, driver design and the resultant distinctive but pleasant sound traits are definitely good deviations. I think SP10 is ... | |
| Just how many options does 1 need in a 2 way bookshelf design? Andrew Jones talked about his considerations for speaker design in general, that are bass, size and efficiency. The debut product, Sourcepoint 10, he comes up with after joining MoFi turns out a good balance of these imo. With the 2-way concentr... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I could care less whether this is a joke/satire or not. However, I wonder how many audiophiles actually know why the vinyl sounds better than digital if that is indeed the case (I was convinced), given the fact that the theoretical dynamic range (... | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) +1@pmm. When the (10dB) attenuator is used between the preamp and the power amp, quote (in Rothwell) "... not only is system gain reduced by 10dB but also the signal to noise ratio is improved by 10dB. This pushes the noise floor down enough to ... |