ltmandella
Responses from ltmandella
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? Never heard any speaker before I bought it except one (JBL L40) at the start of my hifi life. Since the L40s (handed down to baby brother) I bought Boston Acoustics A40, Proac D2, Reference3A DeCapo I, and ELAC DBR62 Reference. All have been kee... | |
| Started with $1k speakers … what now? Can't possibly go wrong with Proac stand mounts. Year after year, rave after rave from owners. It's the kind of standmount that even were you to move in a huge theatre, you would not want to part with your proacs. They do need current, not the ... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection The gong hit at the end never fails to have my new listener's jaws drop and eyes go agog. | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection Get an ultrasonic LP cleaner for sure. Even when I clean new records, there is a bunch of vinly chips and dirt at the bottom of the bath when I clean them ultrasonically. Especially you will need one if you expect to buy any used LPs (which has ... | |
| Analogue clipping from digital sources @antigrunde2: DSD... | |
| Analogue clipping from digital sources and for everyone else, you can research "intersample peak" and intersample peak overs. It is absolutely a known phenomenon among mastering engineers and discussed regularly, and demonstrated in various testing. The consensus on audibility is th... | |
| Analogue clipping from digital sources @antigrunge2: please do your own research. | |
| Analogue clipping from digital sources Are you referring to clipping? I think it has been mathematically demonstrated that it is possible for PCM to clip during playback even though never detected during encoding... | |
| Ken Fritz article I think there may be a bit of Ken Fritz in many of us. How many of the people close to us feel we have gone overboard in equipment acquisition and or obsessing with the sound of our systems? | |
| Why do people like reel to reel players? I own two RT-909s and two RT-707s. Never owned any other RtR decks. I bought my first 707 around 1980. IIRC, this was prior to - or near to - the invention of cassettes, so if you wanted to record, tape was the option. Why do I keep them all ... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? [[The biggest problem is (as you say) it robs the sound of dynamics and subtlety. The frequencies that suffer the most are the midrange and treble.]] Yep, that was exactly my experience with the DEQ2496. And I _really_ wanted a digital EQ/roo... | |
| digital equalizers After reading this thread, I pulled my DEQ2496 out of the closet and gave it another try. Nope, made my system sound dead and dynamically compressed. I was using optical in and optical out on the 2496, then the optical out into my DAC. Back in... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system Understood. Any crappy component in the signal path can possibly do more harm than good. But then again, compared to the distortion in frequency response from speakers and room modes, seems like at least room correction done properly would be b... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system Pretty much every track we ever listen to gets run through something like this dude before we ever hear it. So why would a little EQ in the home listening room upset any purists? I don't get it. schiit mega ;) | |
| What to expect if I import an amp and preamp from a Japan seller via US eBay I would not send more than $100 or so out of the country. You'll never get your money back no matter what unless _maybe_ if you use a CC that will protect you. The risk is 10X what it is for U.S. only transactions. No wire fraud, no U.S. po... |