erik_squires
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| Comparing Ribbon Tweeters - Golden Ear vs. Ascend Sierra I love good AMT’s, but the range of quality in the tweeters and their implementation varies a great deal. The Golden Ear loudspeaker I heard with AMT tweeters was among the very worst I’ve ever heard. In terms of tweeter brands, I consider Raal (t... | |
| Norah Jones - Tidal vs. Hi Res ? I should check to see if there is a date on the Tidal site. I do not thing I could hear 1 or 2 dB of difference in the dynamic range, but the mastering differences make sense. | |
| Ideas for my next DAC....? I only heard one Oppo DAC and I do not exaggerate when I say it was the worst DAC I have ever heard. That was a few years ago though, my point is that the Oppo brand is absolutely not one I would buy without listening to first. I'm quite happy wit... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart CJ -I'll just leave you and your writing style alone. I'm afraid I can't follow your "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to constructing an argument.Best,E | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax I'm afraid that while I see where you are going, there's a lot of yelling that obfuscates and in some ways goes counter to your argument. If I read it as written, it seems you are saying that caps and coils introduce errors and we need to be OK wi... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart Just one small quibble ... The MQA decoders rely on apodizing filters (no pre-ripple, lots after) which Meridian has championed, but they are available without MQA. You can probably find lots at Stereophile written about them. My DAC let's me choo... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart Forgot to mention something. IMHO, MQA is about 2 decades too late. With high bandwidth internet and terabyte thumb drives, and DACs that in the last 5 years play Redbook MUCH better than they used to, the pure need for MQA has really diminished a... | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart I think it's worth having this discussion if we can separate the value (which is arguable) from the process, which is in fact pretty ambitious. From a technical point of view, I think it is clear that MQA is "not just a codec" by any sense of the ... | |
| Have you ever hated the sound of your system one day, and loved it the next? Yes. In my case it happened because I went away and turned everything off. I came back, and for the next day was wondering what had gone wrong. Of course, this also happens from changing room acoustic conditions. Best,E | |
| How much acoustic room treatment I would experiment by removing the bass absorption, or relocating them to the opposite side of the room. | |
| buy a better usb cable or a BT for system One of the popular outboard supplies is Astron. I went with an expensive model that let's me dial in the voltage, but there are cheaper one's. https://amzn.to/2pCDlxqI think technically the 13.8V models are the one's to get if you don't care about... | |
| Would you change your amp selection knowing...? Thinking of Wonder Cable, yes, this is possible. It warms up the sound, and enhances imaging. The oscillation part though, IMHO this is poor design. First, I don't know of any cable that has more capacitance than an ESL speaker. Second, it is easy... | |
| buy a better usb cable or a BT for system Did you know the Brooklyn supports an external power supply? I'd invest in that before a new cable. There is something terribly convenient about BT, but with Tidal now available via Google Chrome, with MQA, you may prefer to go that route. | |
| Speakers "Disappearing" I think you may be confusing the speaker's disappearing with imaging. You want the speakers to disappear. That is, you don't want to be aware that you have 2 separate sound sources. You DO want to hear the location of the recorded instruments in ... | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? I think you have an excellent amp and I'd leave it at that. You need a lot of power to significantly increase volume. Doubling the volume requires 10x the power. Without doing the math, volume wise you may gaine around 4 dB going from 150 to 400. ... |