shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? +1 @audiokinesis Total agreement. 6 inch woofer is simply too big for the mid range. B&W and countless other speakers never sound completely natural for this very reason. To sound natural a speaker must have wide consistent dispersion across t... | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment +1 @bdp24 @almarg Active speakers are the way to go. Proper size mid range driver is crucial. Phase compensated for perfect coherence between drivers. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Curse of Lono As I Fell - brilliant new album | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. If you like Big Pink then try listening to Curse of Lono’s latest album that came out a couple of weeks ago. Americana is seeing a revival!!! | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment +1 @jafant Accurate speakers and an accurate Power amp and accurate source coupled with your favourite flavourful tube preamp is a way to have your cake and eat it!!! | |
| How to find the good CD recordings? @gosta Check out Weekend in LA On Broadway by George Benson for really dynamic great live music | |
| Monitor Audio Pl 300ii vs. KEF Reference 5 What did you buy? I love Kef but I find the resonance on the port of the PL200 draws to much attention to itself and takes a little detail away from the lower mid quality - in the driver integration is not quite there and not totally convincing. T... | |
| To power condition or not Try both. I have never had a problem with ATC Actives - dead quiet even with your ear right over the tweeter. It is crucial that you use XLR - a good cable in Canare Star Quad. If you use inferior RCA and adapt that to XLR adaptor then you can of ... | |
| What are your top songs that you use to evaluate a new high end purchase ? You obviously like the Stones - Monkey Man and Beast of Burden should be on your list. | |
| Have you ever changed speakers to expereince a different "soundscape" or presentation?? No. I don’t like flavoured speakers. I do like flavoured electronics - like tubes!I think of a speaker as being like a lens - you want it to be as transparent as possible with the least distortion possible. This allows you to hear what the source ... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging @audiokinesis +1 Totally agree. | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? @erik_squires Yes. If you don’t upsample then you should also be ok. | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? @erik_squires I have only seen Lyngdorf, Roon, Benchmark and Stereophile’s Jim Austin mention the inter-sample over problem. For such a serious problem affecting nearly all pop/rock it doesn’t seem over hyped. Obviously most manufacturers would ra... | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? @erik_squires Roon has a -3dB volume adjustment that is specifically intended to fix this problem. So if you use the right software then even a DAC that would normally clip can be made to work properly, | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? @d2girls here is an explanationhttps://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/intersample-overs-in-cd-recordings “Every D/A chip and SRC chip that we have tested here at Benchmark has an intersample clipping problem! To the best of our knowled... |