shadorne
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| Magico A3 vs S3 MKI If it doesn’t work with R&B then I would re-examine your choice or determine if it was the listening room or something else. A good speaker should work equally brilliantly with absolutely anything - absolutely anything. A speaker that works wi... | |
| Magicos are chesty @helomech I love the sound of polypropylene cones. My first higher end speaker was Energy Pro 22 with a poly mid-woofer woven onto a rubber surround.That said, my experience is that polypropylene cones almost always sound more rolled off in the 1 ... | |
| All Kit are Band-Aids I like 440Hz because I am used to it. Any other tuning and I can immediately hear that something is off. Generally lower tuning sounds flat to my ear.That said - some olde classical stuff indeed sounds better tuned at the original 432Hz - gives ev... | |
| Coaxial Ribbon Midrange/tweeter - Can a small midrange ribbon actually do midrange well? I would be more concerned about ringing. The grill housing of the midrange tweeter system is all metal. This is going to want to vibrate big time.The crossover is around 400Hz so the ribbons are going to have to work hard. Indeed your concern abou... | |
| Magicos are chesty My guess is you are hearing the sound of the polypropylene plastic bucket that houses the midrange. Polypropylene cones always had a chesty sound - as if the vocalist had a bit of a cold. It was apparent in many of those designs of the 80’s - BBC ... | |
| is ok to use wifes new make up brush to clean styius needle You should ask your wife not the folks here. If she is ok with it then go ahead. | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) + 1 ATC. Their 3 inch super mid range dome practically owns the mid range and has done so for 30 years. Many have tried to better ATC but all I have been weighed, measured and found wanting. Still being installed by professionals in million $ faci... | |
| How do you know what a good speaker is? Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab used Tannoy SRM-B 10” monitors in the early years with his own ML crossover. In later years, he used ATC 150ASL monitors similar to Pink Floyd and Telarc. At one time he was so busy that he was mastering 20% of the to... | |
| How do you know what a good speaker is? A great speaker will be sought after as a reference for many decades and remain in production for many decades. A great speaker will be equally sought after by professional audio engineers, studios, musicians as well as audiophiles. The toughest t... | |
| Do 45 rpm 12" LPs really sound better than 33 rpm? More dynamics. Better by a large margin than LP. When I was heavily into vinyl I would only buy Japanese pressing and also any 12” 45 rpm versions or singles of my favourite hits. Living in Canada our vinyl quality was garbage. Imports is what mos... | |
| What is the best 5k-plus Preamp with balanced outs and Phono stage? I second the EAR-Yoshino & AR SP-20. Also try to audition the Macintosh C2600 - it is a very capable tube preamp with an exceptional full feature phono stage and a warm yet detailed sound. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming @mzkmxcv +1 The J-Test is a pretty conclusive stress test. No jitter artifacts is a pretty strong indication that jitter is not going to be a problem. I have pointed this out to Steve before but he ignores this fact (for obvious reasons). | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. @mzkmxcv Noise floor is analog.There is nothing on the market with an analog noise floor of -192 dBfs. These kind of numbers are utterly meaningless in the real world.The PS Audio doesn’t have an ESS chip - that some DACs have added analog volume ... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. @mzkmxcv It doesn’t matter how many bits. The problem is at the analog conversion stage. The analog signal will become so small as to drop close to the noise floor of the output stage of the DAC. An analog volume control reduces both signal and n... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. The PS Audio Directstream with Snowmass is thinner sounding in the lower mid range than the Benchmark DAC 3. Directstream is also less forward sounding and yields less of a wall of sound and consequently more soundstage depth. Benchmark DACs can b... |