mikhailark
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| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks No, you will not damage anything. At worst you will hear lots of distortions of you raise eq level too high so tubes or transistors start clipping. This is another danger or EQ - if you raise some frequencies too much, your amp will produ... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system EQ is indispensable tool. However, plain analog one is hard to make, they all introduce phase errors. Try using pure digital, in digital path before your DAC. MiniDSP SHD accepts digital signals and can be Dirac or just PEQ. Avoid extra analog-dig... | |
| New DAC issues DACs sound vastly differently depending on the chip they use (or being R2R without chip) as well as filter implementations. If it doesn’t sound right to you it does not mean its bad. I personally know that most probably I will not like DAC based o... | |
| Reel to Reel You can try reels by purchasing cheaper unit first. I got my Akai GX-77 for like $300 on eBay. If you like the experience, you can always upgrade. But then, it depends what you want to do with the unit. Record LPs? You probably don't need 15 IPS u... | |
| Best sounding headphones you have owned? Meze Elite, why :-) Sit right now on my head. | |
| Why is my expensive streamer to my DAC better than sending Roon or my Mac directly to DAC You can probably achieve similar result with Mac via DDC reclocker/isolator, i.e. Mac => DDC => DAC. Also, may need to adjust OS to make sure fewer processes running putting less load on CPU and fewer interrupts. After all, streamer IS a com... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? But who said the measurement must be linear? Remember popularity of equalizers? And how many people liked V-shape? A lot of music is poorly recorded and can benefit from correction. Enter this speaker. It is basically an equalizer, i bet it sounds... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Sonus Faber are pretty laid back and warm speakers. Which measurements confirm. May be a good thing with bright SS amp, may be a bad thing with a warm tube gear. | |
| Sound Quality @larryi yeah i heard about it too, but cant seem to find the information. It is theoretically possible, if computer is slow and memory is limited. Maybe old iPod with hard disk, remember those? I cant imagine modern programs decompressing file in ... | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts Remember also, that everything on Internet is sliced into chunks and compressed before transmission and decompressed back. Bandwidth is money so all data is sliced into chunks, wrapped into packets, transmitted frequently out of order a... | |
| Sound Quality @sandthemall - lossless IS lossless. Bit to bit. Decompressed file is exactly the same as it was before compression. Think about zip compression. Your word document is exactly the same after decompression, nothing is lost. Similarly, you can zip W... | |
| Phono preamp Pass Labs | |
| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Whats wrong with Gustard C18. Or C16. Now, i found denafrips to be MUCH better gear. | |
| Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms? Lets imagine they DO create “currents”. How strong they would be and do you think properly designed power supply would not be able to filter them out. | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @squared80 this is not entirely true. First, often supplied power cables are poor quality. Cost cutting. Pass cables are pretty good actually, properly designed. Hospitals use medical grade connectors - so they care about better power connection, ... |