willemj
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| Benefits of an external DAC The tube DAC may be different but is not necessarily superior. Did you measure the frequency response? CD red book is the product of the largest research effort ever into audio reproduction, by one the worlds best physics labs of the time.The DAC ... | |
| Open Floor Plan Listening Room The bigger the room the better for deep bass. Irregular shapes also help, as was already pointed out. From the description, it sounds as if you have a null at the listening position. If so, the first thing to do is to measure the response in vario... | |
| Do I need a preamp/processor? There are two questions to answer before you proceed any further. First, are you also unhapy with the sound quality if you are listening to Tidal through the Sonos Connect? If yes, you are probably unhappy about the sound of the speakers and/o... | |
| Best Subwoofer for Quad 2805 under $5k The problem is not the subs but the room. Hence use multiple small subs and dsp room eq like the DSPeaker 8033. | |
| Streaming vs traditional Wow. Even more voodoo science. I thought this forum already had its fair share. | |
| Streaming vs traditional To the best of my knowledge Meridian have never published any of their work in a scientific journal. | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Sure, you need to have enough power (and for top level speakers lots of power), and the frequency response has to load independent (within 0.2 dB for your speakers). Both require a beefy (and hence more expensive) power supply. Even so, this can b... | |
| Spend more money on the amp or the pre-amp? Sounds like you did well. However, I still want to make a suggestion with respect to the orginal question: how about the new Yamaha RN803d receiver? It is 2x100 watt rms at 8 Ohm, has digital inputs, Spotify Connect Airplay, networking capability ... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? +1 This is just blatant nonsense. On the other hand, it mirrors and feeds on the obsession of many audiophiles with exotic electronics. These days, the electronics are boringly irrelevant once you reach a decent quality level (and that level is ... | |
| Channel Imbalance at low volumes Leemaze,The fact that the volume gain goes up very quickly suggests that input sensitivity is too high, which is something you may want to addres in any case. I am trying hard to think why the problem persists at the same sound level, but at a dif... | |
| Streaming vs traditional As I said, I am not sure higher rsolutions, either lossless or lossy compacted as in MQA are audibly better than red book. I think the jury is still out, but we shall see if someone can come up with decisive test data.I don't do downloads for the ... | |
| Devor - KEF - Vienna Acoustic – Wilson? Quad 2912 for ultimate clarity or Harbeth M40.2 for more dynamics. But at this price there are many options, and nobody can hear them all, let alone compare them directly and in your own home. | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 Have a powerpoint screen with: this sucks | |
| Streaming vs traditional Well, the comparison was between high resolution (i.e. 24/96) files and MQA, and (rightly or wrongly - there may be a discussion about the test design) the result was that there were no sonic differences. If true, this allows us to conclude that M... | |
| Streaming vs traditional Of course I listen as well. However, sighted listening tests are methodologically deeply problematic because there is potentially so much expectation bias. The blind test that I linked to suggests that there is little or on sonic difference betwee... |