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One of the amusing aspects of this fracas is that the anti-measurement people get extremely upset when their favored components are the...

Unfair lawsuits are Murica's Bread and Butter right now!

I have followed this story from the beginning and read most of the posts on here concerning it and i would like to share my take on this...

All you will accomplish is making the files bigger. Unless you have a really bad DAC, it will already filter out the noise. You don't...

I can't imagine wasting my time like this. You can hear some sort of difference?

I'd be very surprised if anyone can hear that difference with real music in real listening conditions. Scoring them 2 or 6 (presumably...

Sorry for the clickbaity title but I thought it was time for another ASR bun-fight ;) For some time now, I have noticed that both...

The point of buying and ripping CDs is have a copy in case the album is removed from the streaming services and to give a bit of money...

Surprisingly 20 db is enough. Cartridges used in LP are lucky to have more than 30 db with few having more than 35 db. Many cartridges...

The vinyl playback probably doesn't have flat frequency response, and you prefer that response over neutral, which the digital is.

From SPL point of view excursion increases 4-fold(!) with each octave lower if you don't change driver diameter or to keep the excursion...

Crossed at 680 Hz the woofer will reach its limits earlier with most music, also since the 1" tweeter has no waveguide 4" is better than...

If they sold this for $1,000, they might have a compelling case - transparent performance, great look and seemingly excellent build...

Cartridges are balanced as an inevitable result of their design and the output very low so it has always made sense for any phono system...

The year is 1877 and Thomas Edison presents his “Phonograph” to the world. It wasn’t the only device able to reproduce recorded sound...