erik_squires
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| Berkeley Dac 2 or PS audio DSD or Schiit Yggs? Audio Research recommends 400 hours of break in time per input on the DAC 8, so I'm not sure if that's true. Do they QA their products after this? Heck no. | |
| Sopra No.2 Overpriced? So, lots of off topic points I want to contribute to.The quality of products made in China is directly proportional to the parent company’s willingness to control that quality and partner with the manufacturer. Very high quality and crap comes out... | |
| Should Manufacturer's Tell Us More About Crossovers And you are not obsessing, but perhaps you need to build your own to sate your curiosity? Try my free plans for the LM-1. Maybe you'll get hooked and decide DIY is the only way to go. :) | |
| Should Manufacturer's Tell Us More About Crossovers Well, of course we all want to know more. :) But it's like looking behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. No manufacturer wants customers looking at part cost as the measure of the product. They want you to look at things like Modernity, and Adva... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! best bang for the buck i know of and use are GIK Soffit traps. Effects are broad and effective below 100 Hz. Great advice available.ASC is very good but pricey.foam corner wedges, meh. | |
| Acoustic Treatment of 'Unique" Room Sorry no one answered. it sounds comicated, so i would suggest pro help. Reach out to GIK Acoustics for help. they have excellent low cost products and give great advice | |
| Tidal music to analog preamp One kind of off the wall solution is a Fiio X7 wifi enabled player plus K5 desktop module. | |
| DAC recommendation in the $1k range I have not done a lot of comparative listening, but when I was last shopping for a DAC, the Parasound Z Dac at $500-ish was really quite nice! I could listen to it for hours. I did get to hear it against the NAD M51 DAC, ugh. There was a huge di... | |
| Berkeley Dac 2 or PS audio DSD or Schiit Yggs? A decade ago MQA had some benefit to us. Braodband and disk space is so cheap right now, there's no longer any benefit at all to the end user. It's like HDCP built into HDMI. That they want me to pay extra for it is insult to injury. Best,Erik | |
| best bookshelf speakers for < $2000? Wow, so much animosity. So, as for physics. The -3dB measurements of a speaker are only part of the physics needed to understand the perceived bass extension. Of course, anechoically, a larger diameter driver and greater linear excursion contribut... | |
| Magico S1 Mk II - The First Review Just like I think readers will hear things for themselves and make their own decisions, I am sure they can tell when a fan-boy gets all butt-hurt that I rained on his favorite brand.Erik | |
| Berkeley Dac 2 or PS audio DSD or Schiit Yggs? I've listened to Shiits and Berkeley's. I ended up with an AR DAC 8. The Shiit was closest to the DAC 8. I heard the Berkeley's a couple of times and I personally find them a bit cool in tone, so not to my personal preference. The Shiit and AR a... | |
| Integrated amp recommendation around 3k (I need more power!) Parasound makes a supremely capable integrated, and the DAC that comes with it is pretty good too. | |
| Need Help: What In My Home Electric System Killed the Sound? More likely a drop or change in voltage vs. before. Is the light that was changed on a dimmer? Those can introduce all sorts of fun things. :) Is it possible you changed a setting, such as a balanced vs. not on the back of one of the Mac's? Or did... | |
| best bookshelf speakers for < $2000? You need three things to completely integrate a subwoofer into your room and your speakers. Bass traps. Digital EQ. Room measurement software (with microphone). Lack any of them and you are better off with limited bass 2 way speakers. In fact, bef... |