Recent content by amarsicola

All this story seems to me as a turning point to create an AudioScienceReview Foundation to support independent reviewers. E.g. when funds will be raised, if by chance Tekton does not proceed with legal actions against Erin, the foundation will own such a fund. At that point that money will be a...

Ready to fund Erin and defend freedom of speech. Which is the place chosen for fundraising? GoFundMe? Waiting for practical instructions from @amirm

You can also try Volumio on raspberry pi. Qobuz integration is better than Upnp as far as i remember (did some experiments few years ago) and you have Fusiondsp. Unfortunately it requires a small subscription (around 60€/year). Try and see

1 what is ASR and who pays for it 2 what is hi fi? 3 how to educate my hearing 4 a good loudspeaker 5 a good amplifier 5.1 do i need a preamplifier? 6 a good dac 7 a good streamer 8 cables 9 the world of vinil 10 room correction 11 what should i buy 12 power conditioner and other snake oil stuff

Following you, unfortunately the Audiophiles on budget will pay for features they do not use. It would be much better for them if wiim added USB out to the wiim mini...

recommendation from Jimster makes a lot of sense in general, but D70S specifically has a not-so-perfect jitter performance when fed by spdif or toslink, i'd prefer a streamer with USB output. I would go for Raspberry Pi 4 (60€ + case) and Volumio with either Tidal or Qobuz. As far as i know...

Same opinion. If they had a streamer with usb out I would replace my Rpi running Volumio, which is also requiring a subscription to access Qobuz streaming, and user experience is basic. Unfortunately my dac has some jitter imperfections on toslink otherwise I would be happy and done with Wiim...

@morillon you are right, tests are showing the same issues seen in other implementations of the same chip, so they seem reliable. Good (but not excellent) sinad is reported and a heavily load-dependent frequency response which is a no-way showstopper for me. Frequency response is the base, sinad...

They are also much prettier, which is not something to ignore.

Great product! Is this the best desktop streamer so far? Having a max output voltage configurable to 1V lets you use it with a Hypex NCxxMP power amp with no fears. This is a plus over any topping/smsl dacs so far. I'd love to have it with xlr...

I have not found any floorstanding active loudspeaker with a good preference score (e.g. above 5.5) below 5k€ per pair, do you know any?

I am using a Topping D70S directly connected to the Audiophonics in bypass mode. I read the Topping has an output impedance of around 200 ohms, so quite lower that the input impedance of the amp. I have never compared the sound with or without the buffer, but i have read around that if the input...

I was in the same doubt as you a couple of years ago, then i took a breath and went into the raspberry hole. 60 euros and 15 minutes later i was done with no regrets. Also consider that Volumio has a parametric equalizer for room correction. The money you save can be spent in a Umik microphone...

I wouldn't. You can check also the Audiophonics implementation with more or less the same input gain settings and a bit lower price.

Thanks EKA, I also have read somewhere that contrast has the biggest weight on preference. Calling in our professor @amirm in case he knows any scientific paper on the topic