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For organ music you want good bass response: linear response, extended depth, and low distortion. If you can use headphones, I recommend...

It's common for hearing tests to only go up to about 8 kHz. Usually they're only testing for obvious deficiencies that would make it...

Be aware: these toslink switches have a maximum bandwidth. Many of them max out at 48 k / 24 bit, so they don't pass higher bit rates...

I agree that electronica is good for listening for frequency response, for the same reasons. But electronica is not good for listening...

Does Timex still make mechanical watches? Mechanical to quartz isn't a fair comparison.

You are right that digital and conventional analog volume controls both show similar behavior: SNR drops 1:1 (more or less) as you turn...

As others mentioned, that noise is the IEM responding to noise in the amp's output. You can think of it as a design flaw in the amp. But...

One important thing I've learned reading reviews here is that at 1/4 to 1/2 volume, where we typically listen, the preamp's SNR and...

This same test went around here months ago. IIRC, at the very end of this audio file there is an obvious "tell" and someone here was...

Yes that was the idea, though the ordering of values doesn't have to be completely immaterial. Even if noise shaping constrains the...

Wow. Then DSD has many different ways (bit encoding sequences) to encode the same signal. Because many of the permutations mean the same...

That's what you'd get without noise shaping, which is what sigma-delta modulation is all about. That's pretty much what the result...

This might be a dumb question, but it will help me understand how DSD works, so here goes... If DSD encodes 0 and 1 whenever the...

I too am a proponent of listening at moderate volumes. And I consider the 85 dB measured to be "loud" not "moderate". Here, the above...

Of course one always has to do that to prevent clipping, but it doesn't solve the problem I'm talking about. In the above graph, bass...