In any hi-fi system there are 2 analog signals which are converted into 2 sound pressure waves. Neither of those analog signals or sound pressure waves have a soundstage component. What they have is accurate amplitude, accurate phase and accurate timing. Sound stage is entirely a psycho-acoustic...
What comes upstream of your EtherRegen? There is a lot of upgrade potential in a. Splitting off your household network traffic from audio traffic as early on the network as possible. B. Using an audio-‘friendly’ router with low noise chip-set like the Broadcom c. Powering your modem and router...
Or it could be that you’ve simply moved from your ideal listening position to give your guest the best position.
The most obvious reasonS for sound sucking at hi-fi shows are:
Very high ambient noise levels
Very high seismic vibration
Less than optimum rooms…size, shape, reverberation time
EMI...
In my case, an extra degree of quiet early in the morning is usually due to the volume being turned right down for fear of waking up everyone else in the house with my music
Of course you may be correct although I did lavish the same care, attention and budget on optimising several CD-based systems as i did on streaming but could never get anything like the same results. I imagine it’s why a lot of audiophiles still prefer analog over digital. The difference, as I...
Hi Ron,
I used to share this opinion until I had the opportunity to experiment extensively with local and remote streaming.
In essence, you take the output of a transport, cable it into a DAC and listen to the result. About the only thing you can improve is the quality of the cable
In...
Hi sbo6,
Ah yes, thanks for reminding me about those top-notch remasters. At the same time i was ordering the initial parts of my streaming system I treated myself to about 170 of my favorite rock, jazz and classical LPs. The ones that were available I bought new on 180G vinyl and the rest I...
In general, the more you spend on local and remote streaming and the more carefully you optimize what you bought and its network, the better it will sound. With over 50 years in hi-fi I owned several top-flight turntables, arms, MC cartridges, phono-stages and TT platforms. I spent the previous...
Swap the speakers left and right. If the right is now +10dB vs the left it’s the speakers. If the left remains at +10dB it’s the room or system. Then swap the speaker cables. If the +10db moves with the cables, it’s the system. If the 10dB imbalance hasn’t moved, its the room
The terminal on the Doepke switch allows for either 1 or 2 large gauge cable cores to be connected. If you install Gigawatts in series, that requires a single core to the Doepke, which is then daisy-chained between the Gigawatts. If you want to wire your Gigawatts is parallel then you are...
Hi PYP,
What you will likely find is that if your network is injecting a lot of noise into your system, remotely streamed files are not the only thing affected. I spent several years removing noise from my audio network and the effects were broader than just internet related streaming. The...
I spent 5 years building a refining a local and remote streaming system. From the very get-go the system was extremely pleasing with virtually nothing I didn’t like, with the exception of a slight hump in the bass that seemed to affect double bass notes more than anything else. As I continued to...
First let me say that I am never comfortable with denying what a listener hears, so if a 16th of an inch speaker movement has an audible effect, then I’m personally perfectly happy to accept that it indeed has a audible effect.
But I would apply some logic here. First, it‘s reported that the...
I built a jig to burn in power cables off line without any listening, because the listening can be slightly excruciating. The difference between a partly burned in and a fully burned in cable isn’t subtle. One has clear anomalies, the other doesn’t. One is fun to listen to, the other isn’t. No...