yoyoyaya
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| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? @OP - Yes. Check the demographic at hi fi shows - male and old! | |
| 10dB resonant peak at 40Hz @OP - Can you move the speakers closer to the front wall? Even if you still get a resonance you just don't want it on a root note that bass players land on regularly - but even a relatively small movement might tame it anyway. | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @OP. This is basically a value proposition question as far as I'm concerned i.e. take the cost of the relevant software collection and divide it by the cost of the playback equipment. Or put more simply, a big record collection better justifies a ... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? The Sanders white paper is excellent. The two big takeaways are 1. that transient power demand is far higher than we think or that anything short of an oscilloscope can measure and, 2. the recovery time of the power supply in responding to transie... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music A OP - As to your specific question, single ended 300B amps tend not to be very well controlled in the bass - even with efficient speakers. A 300B valve is only good for a couple of watts before it starts to distort. A say eight to ten watt adver... | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers @OP - Do you need to put the speakers on an actual bookshelf? The room isn't that small so unless there is no floorspace, you could look at floorstanders too. | |
| Sonus Faber Electa Amator III vs. the Bowers and Wilkins 805 D4? @OP As previous posts have said and well described the differences between two quite different sounding loudspeakers. Although harder to find in the US, it would be useful to listen to a pair of Harbeth M30.2XDs as a point of comparison. And for a... | |
| Borresen X1 & X2 @OP. I was listening to the X1s last weekend. There is nothing strange about the height of their imaging. It's exactly what you'd expect from a two way standmount. | |
| Digital LP’s +1 jji666. Part of the bad reputation of CD arises because a lot of the ADCs and DAC's in the early days of CD weren't capable of true 16 bit resolution. Since then there have been significant improvements in converter and filter design that have ... | |
| Digital LP’s There's still loads to unpick in this interesting discussion. The vinyl production process is different to that for CD because on top of the choices made by the mastering engineer, the cutting engineer has to make a set of additional choices over... | |
| Digital LP’s Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than a 16 bit CD. But for pop and rock music dynamic range is pretty irrelevant as most recordings are compressed into a very narrow dynamic range window. Perceived differences between vinyl and CD are very de... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? @OP - am I correct in my interpretation of your post that you took the analogue audio output of the iphone into one of the analogue inputs of the PrimaLuna? That being the case, I have to say that I am surprised that a dedicated streamer/DAC does... | |
| An Amp Nobody Talks About, Bricasti Design @OP, I'll be recording with it soon! | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo Anything by Chantal Chamberland, preferably heard on SACD. I'm a bit surprised at the number of early digital recordings that have featured in the posts so far - Brothers in Arms, Body and Soul, and the Nightfly, all of which IMHO, show up the fa... | |
| An Amp Nobody Talks About, Bricasti Design Bricasti's M7 reverb has become one of the standard go to studio hardware reverbs - for lots of people have heard Bricasti even if they don't know it! |