Many years ago I accepted that I’d never be interested in owning another cassette player. Then I see this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Satisfyingasfuck/s/2bymUhIBlX

Hi Friends!

I have a pair of KEF LSX v1 paired with Burson Playmate, i'm really want to come back to pasive speakers, before i has a pair of MA Radius 90 and kef, obviously sounds better.

It's a good idea to sell the kefs in like 450 USD and get the bx2 in 220 usd?

Regards!

A buddy and I went to see "Companion", we are both into audio equipment. There is a receiver shown and we couldn't figure out it's manufacturer. Also is a CD player or system but I think it a stand alone. Any ideas about either of these but most the receiver. It kind of gave me thoughts on the McIntosh box made in Japan?

For instance, things I think most wouldnt care about or agree with, are that I think most speaker towers look terrible in living rooms, and I hate when speaker pairs look identical but are asymmetrical.

I’m not an audiophile but I just bought my first pair of bookshelf speakers and I can definitely tell a difference from when I’m playing high res audio from my computer via cable vs. when I play it via Bluetooth from my phone. I’ve always wondered how much of a difference Bluetooth compressions makes so I thought I’d ask you guys. Is there a numerical value to how much it compresses it? I’d love all the details, thank you!

i feel like for me i like the yamahas tone a lot more it’s feels warmer and has a punchier bass compared to the denon which sounds colder and more flat

the two receivers im comparing are a yamaha rx-v467 and a denon s 540bt

I'm currently paying for Tidal and Volumio for a digital head end to my system but I've grown tired of paying so much for Volumio and experiencing indexing and latency issues. After a reboot it works well for a while but after some time the thumbnails will be out of sync with the track it actually plays.

Does anyone have a setup they're happy with to access Tidal through the Pi? I'm using the HifiBerry Pro + board for the digital output to my DAC.

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OK sorry for the pun. But after watching the Revel F226be ($7700/pair list) go on sale for $4000 several times this past year, I decided in December to pull the trigger. I was coming from the KEF LS50 Wireless II active speakers, so I needed an amp as well. To keep things simple and streamlined, I decided to go with the Lyngdorf TDAI-1120 streaming amplifier with built-in room correction (RoomPerfect), $2000. Short version: This setup sounds amazing.

The LS50 Wireless II sounded very good, but this is another league in resolution, impact, and dynamics. The F226be is extremely accurate, and they reveal more of the texture of the instruments than I'd heard before. I was expecting that bass would be on the light side and I would need to add a sub, but in room it's enough for me (and I live in an apartment so I have to be mindful of that), and the gain in bass clarity from the LS50 (two 6.5-inch bass drivers vs. one 5.25-inch) is quite significant.

I wanted to keep the setup simple and minimal. One bonus was that the number of cables didn't go up - the KEF required two power cables, plus an optional cable between the two speakers (which was more reliable than the wireless connectivity); with this setup I've got the power cable to the amp, and two speaker cables, that's it.

I listen to mostly classical streamed from Qobuz, together with Roon. The Lyngdorf does not come with a remote (one can be purchased separately) but I enjoy using my RooDial (a Microsoft Surface Dial connected to a Raspberry Pi, providing volume and playback control). The TV is connected via HDMI-eARC.

Happy for comments, questions, or suggestions!

I'm planning on installing two in-ceiling speakers in our kitchen area. This area is comprised of a small kitchen with a bar peninsula. The listening locations are varied:

1. seated in the bar stools, 2) prepping food at the peninsula, 3) standing at the stove, 4, standing at the sink.

I'm constrained by existing recessed lights (red circles) as well as ceiling joists. My proposed locations are the blue circles. I've got them placed about 18" away from upper cabinets in both locations. Is this a good layout or would I be better off shifting each speaker more towards the center of the space?

Thanks in advance.

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What is the preferred awg range for XLR IC? (1) DAC to preamp, and (2) preamp to monoblocks? For a fairly high end system. Thx.

I recently had the chance to listen to the Paradigm Founder 120H hybrid speakers and I was very impressed. I don’t have much experience hearing speakers (or amps) in the price range of what I was listening to so I’ll avoid making any comparisons, but to me, they were awesome. One thing is confusing to me however. The Paradigm website says that the speakers themselves can perform room correcting DSP (they call it Anthem Room Correction or ARC Genesis). As usual, you make measurements with a microphone in the listening position and then a computer does its analysis and produces a correction profile. This is then uploaded into the speaker via a USB port. What’s confusing to me is that the only audio input into the speaker is analog. And you need an amplifier to drive the mids and the highs. So, if I’m using a digital source, it’s running through a DAC (within or before the amp) traveling to the speaker as an analog signal, then being digitized in the speaker (?!) so that the DSP can be applied (?) and then running through another DAC within the speaker? Is this only happening to the low frequencies that are going through the amplifier that is built into the speaker? Seems like digital-analog-digital-analog might have some potential pitfalls. Anybody understand better than me how this works? Do I have it right? Thanks!

Hi my fellow audiophiles! I’m just starting to build my home listening setup. I’m a vinyl guy. Is there any way (budget way) to fix the vibration from floor? Every time i walk near the table, it disturbs the record player which annoys me a lot.

Hi, my plan is to replace my Yamaha R-N803D with separates in order to achieve the following

• DIRAC control
• HDMI eArc control of tv / Nvidia shield volume
• More wattage to drive my KEF R3s

The idea is to move to a Minidsp Flex HT, audiophonics/apollon audio Hypex Ncore X stereo poweramp and later add a streamer into the minidsp.

There's a lot of posts of people intending to get the minidsp flex ht, but not a lot on what user's experiences are with them and especially how family friendly such a setup is (which i know is more of a pro for an integrated)

1. Does eArc work well?
2. Does triggering equipment work well?
3. How is the volume control?

The only other alternative i see is to go for an Arcam SA30 which achieves the same goal for less money.

Looking forward to hear your experiences.

I went to an estate sale this morning, knowing that they had some older McIntosh stuff. How old, exactly? Couldn’t tell you.

I made sure to get there early, and I was one of the first in the door when they opened up. They had a C 28 preamp for $1,000, and they had two identical-looking MC 2105 power amps at $1595 each. From what I’ve seen on eBay, at least, that’s somewhere in the neighborhood of what they would go for.

Those three, along with some miscellaneous lower-end tuners and things, were all in a cabinet behind glass doors. It wasn’t possible to turn them on to see if or how they worked, and I wouldn’t have known how to gauge that quickly anyway. So I passed. A couple minutes later, someone bought the two amps.

I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss out on an absolute bargain. Given this totally incomplete information, did I do the right thing? Or should I have taken a chance on at least one of them?

Hi,

I know this can't be that hard but I am newer to this realm and the conversation of internal/external DACs and limits etc has my head spinning. It can't be that hard.

TLDR; I have a NAD D3020 V2 running to Totem Dreamcatchers and and an RSL Speedwoofer 10E. The only available inputs left on the NAD are the Coaxial and the Aux. The only available outputs on my M2 Macbook Air is the Usb-C and the 3.5. When I select 'Hi-Res Lossless' it tells me I need to have an external DAC that can handle that level, which the NAD can. But wouldn't a 3.5 to RCA reduce anyway?

In short, how? Would 3.5 to RCA in AUX allow the internal DAC in NAD to handle the Hi Res Lossless? What is the best solution here? Can't be that hard. There are 2 holes on both sides. Which one goes where?

I just added a pair of SVS PB-1000 Pro subs to my setup (Klipsch Heresy IV, Yamaha A-S1200, WiiM Pro Plus.)

As a first step, I set the low-pass on both subs to 48hz, the nominal low end for the Heresy’s, played mvt 3 of Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony by the CSO, and, well, any buyers remorse immediately vanished.

Here’s my question: For further tweaking and balancing, should I adjust each sub with its partner Heresy, or adjust each sub with both Heresy’s at once? (The SVS app only controls one sub at a time.)

My thinking is to balance left and right channels, then do room correction on the whole. Thoughts?

Here's my point of view:

1. Accessibility. Listening to almost all the music in the world in our homes, phones, on the go, on podcasts, on downloaded playlists on our sport watches during activities, flights and so on. With the best available quality. No walkmans, discmans, ipods. Obvious.

2. Quality / copies. No need for teenagers or anybody, to go through the whole city for hours (I did), to buy, borrow or steal LP or CD, or to make own record on the tape from the borrowed one. Tape or digital decks make no sense anymore. (I still think, that the cassette decks, either with led or gauges, are the coolest HiFi devices ever made, and nothing will beat that. Ever.)

3. Records. Who wants, can still buy and play CDs and LPs on their own devices - to enjoy the real touch or support the artists.

Here's my personal input: I like to touch and operate the standalone devices - and if I preset dozens of LPs or my playlists on the streamer - I do not even need to touch my phone or remote. I approach the set up, switch it on, select, and I just press play, exact the same way as on the CD player. The feel of the "old way" is there.

Personal input #2: I have physical LPs and CDs, but I play them on the streamer, while going through the booklet or just enjoying physical disc in my hands. No need to dust them off, to protect the stylus. Dust there is a nightmare.

4. Availability. We are lucky, there are no fragmentation, like on TV streaming. All the music in one place. I decided for Deezer, because living in another country now, I can find there LPs, even niche ones, even music fairytales, released back in 70s in Poland. As FLACs! I will not find them as records in Germany in second hand stores, even if I'd wanted to. Who could even thought, that one day this will come as a reality!

5. Perhaps most controversial: the Artists. The real money, for the popular ones, were made through selling records. Nowadays, through selling tickets for the gigs.

Young/New/Unknown/Known locally:

I feel we are back to basics; new or unknown Artists can gain popularity on the streaming platforms, youtube or through suggestions. It is hard. Back then, they achieved popularity through local, then bigger concerts and through "mouth post" of their fan base. It was even harder back then. Sometimes playing for free. Well, during MTV times it was all weird, but that was just a decade or so.

Appreciated and popular Artists:

I do not really care, I really don't, if even my beloved ones, are making now 1 million $ per year from streaming, instead of 100 millions of $ per year from selling records.

They have enough, they are rich, and they will be rich till their last days. Showbiz, just like football, is ridiculously over paid.

Klipsch forte 1's from my father. I was super excited to get them. They're basically new, still have the packaging and reciepts. I have a halfer 500 in addition to the soundstream sp4002. I know my room acoustics are weird and I'm wondering if something newer would suit me better. I had klipsch promedia satelites and a powered sub right next to it that was pretty decent. Would something like a dayton audio T65, parts express DA wave kit, parts express amiga kit, or RSL 3GCM even hold a candle to these?? It's important to note my wife doesn't care for these but liked the copper look of the powered sub.. slimmer towers might make us both happy?

If I were to turn off the drivers handling low frequencies in a floor standing speaker, would it essentially sound like a bookshelf speaker? And if I were to have a subwoofer with a bookshelf speaker, would the bookshelf speaker sound like a floor standing speaker?

I found this interesting. You might too if you have or want to do a tube amp project.

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