shadorne
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| Your favorite male soul voices +1 Steve Marriott - is there such a thing as too much talent? | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers Large drivers with large diameter voice coils will push much more air and stay cooler and consequently remain incredibly dynamic and effortless at concert volume levels. Minimal distortion.A small woofer with a small diameter voice coil pushes ver... | |
| Why price of Tannoy speakers from online retailers in UK is cheaper than in US There are hefty duties on speakers!Around 25% if I recall. Funnily enough, you can ship transducers with little or no import tax. This is why many countries have their own custom cabinet makers and these custom cabinet makers call themselves speak... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? @mtdining blur the lack of frequency extension and muddy bass of British speakers. You clearly haven’t heard all British speakers as your comment really only refers to smaller domestic British speakers. Most of the music you listen to is likely mi... | |
| I’m gob smacked. What were you’re aha moments? First time I heard ATC in 1994. I thought the demo pair I heard must be a one off freak or unicorn of exceptional performance (never having heard a speaker sound so realistic before) - so I immediately bought the demo pair from the store owner and... | |
| Am I deaf? Not nuts. The Oppo is a good DAC. There are lots of great DACs out there and they are sounding very close. Try PS Audio Direcstream if you want something a little different - smoother and more analog sounding without loss of resolution. Also try a... | |
| Recommend an MQA album... Great you found some you like. I can’t find a single MQA album that sounds better than the equivalent hi-res file (same master). MQA seems to add only distortion as far as I can tell. | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? I find many of the latest DACs are absolutely excellent and digital glare is much less of an issue these days.The PS Audio Directstream Sr is Stereophile Class A+ and is notable for a very analog sound without any loss of detail. Lots of blackness... | |
| Group delay in subwoofers Subwoofer should be close to the plane of the front L and R speakers.8 feet is likely going to begin to cause some integration issues with main speakers simply because that puts the subwoofer much closer to the listening area (creating uneven soun... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. @erik_squiresAre you saying nobody knows or cares what polarity is anyway and wouldn’t notice if they got it wrong. So a quick polarity check with a button is superfluous.Are you saying that you can swap cables quick enough to A and B back and for... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. I have pro gear that has a phase inversion button. Kind of useful to quickly check things. I am surprised that nobody has this. Amazing that this hobby values fancy cables and the effort that goes into swapping that fancy stuff out but a simple po... | |
| DAC Upgrade +1 @mzkmxcv NOS will often roll off more than designs that upsample.R-2R is inherently less linear overall and has differential non-linearities also as it is impossible to design precision resistors to the requisite degree of accuracy. Therefore y... | |
| Eggleston Works speakers: Expensive, but are they worth the money?? This guy thinks so...https://youtu.be/SJIfEhMJt5M | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally +1 Quested. Quested used the ATC mid range which the testimonial from Hans Zimmer singles out. Some of the higher end PMC speakers used it too. Not sure if either of these companies still do, as Volt now makes a copy of ATC’s super dome. Both desi... | |
| New McIntosh amp build quality Build quality of the electronic internals is superb on the latest C2600. Beautiful. However they have skimped on the chassis. No flush mount screws on the top cover, which I find surprising on a unit of that price. |