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    Michael Fidler Spartan 20 Phono Stage Review

    Thank you for such an in depth and we'll explained response.
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    What is timbre and can we measure it?

    I would say this thread has been really helpful. If I'm summarizing what I've gleaned from it. Essentially, timbre is the "artifacts" that an instrument adds to a note that is played. After reading this, I would say it absolutely can be measured in the sense of we can take a recording of an...
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    What is timbre and can we measure it?

    Is it subjective? I don't mean to be combative but a bugle horn playing e flat and an electric guitar playing e flat are objectively different sounding (at least I think you can say that's objective). Yet, both should be around 311hz. So, if the frequency is the same, what's causing them to...
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    What is timbre and can we measure it?

    My understanding is timbre is describing the differences in sound of different instruments playing the same note. My understanding is also that this site effectively evaluates musical equipment by passing a set frequency (a note) and evaluating how faithfully the equipment reproduced that...
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    Schiit Skoll Balanced Phono Stage Review

    If you have a balanced preamp and power Amp then you have to go from balanced to unbalanced at some point, right? I don't know if there are pros/cons to doing that in the phono stage rather than in the preamp.
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    Schiit Skoll Balanced Phono Stage Review

    I think a puffin would be fun to have. The waxwing, IMHO, made a design flaw in having all controls be done via an app. I get so frustrated with streaming or Bluetooth apps. Plus, one of the biggest advantages to vinyl for me is the "analog experience" - I'm not talking about the sonic...
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    Schiit Skoll Balanced Phono Stage Review

    If you're already committed to strictly MC or MM, I'd be very tempted by Michael Fidler's stuff
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    Buckeye Amps 2ch Integrated Amplifier

    I'm worried about alcohol poisoning
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    FAQ Questions on Audio/ASR

    What is ABX testing? Why is it so hard to do in practice?
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    Schiit Skoll Balanced Phono Stage Review

    Almost certainly. But you could also look at the cheaper Mani 2.
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    Denon PMA-600NE Integrated Amplifier Review

    Pretty well summarizes the thread.
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    Denon PMA-600NE Integrated Amplifier Review

    It's probably more than just "r&d". They probably have a whole ecosystem of parts and boards and interchangeability that make it so they can deliver at the cost they can for a number of products and overhauling designs would lead to needs to redisgn that while ecosystem. That said, it looks like...
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    Denon PMA-600NE Integrated Amplifier Review

    Oh I'm not saying it's great by any stretch. My point, if I even have a point, is that there's a hole in the market for these all in ones and while you can build a much better system piecemeal, it's hard to do so for $400.
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    Denon PMA-600NE Integrated Amplifier Review

    And a free phono stage and Bluetooth
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