Recent content by waynel

Depending on how loud you listen one AHB2 would be great, I used one and never saw the clipping light. If you listen loud or want lots of headroom for peace of mind then its hard (impossible?) to do better than a pair of AHB2's in bridged mono. For lower budget options a Purifi or Hypex amp...

I agree that 16 bit 44.1KHz is generally enough for music distribution but not for recording , editing, mastering or playback. For music production it's helpful to have extra headroom as the peak may be unknown as well as the additive noise with multitracking discussed above. For playback...

Neither cover would fit with the HAT, so I did without a back cover

if running off a 12V trigger, ignore the power supply and the two pins on the left, they are for a different use case ( public safety announcements in venues)

I'm using the two pins on the right with the 2V trigger from my AVR, and no separate power supply. It stays on A unless my AVR is on. (the two pins on the left are not shorted or connected at all, they are for another use case w/o a 12V trigger supplied)

I agree with mdsimon2, you are making a mistake with the gain structure here. There is no reason to have the DAC8 FS output greater than the sensitivity of your amp regardless of Dirac.

Any streamer with a coax spdif output would work with a coax to xlr cable should work , otherwise the neutrik or Canare spdif to AES transformer will definitely work. The 8Cs support spdif https://support.dutchdutch.com/8c-aes3-input/...

The way streaming works is Taylor Swift gets all the money. Spotify will take the total pool of subscriber money and allocate a share based on overall plays. It’s not divided by subscriber.

To support the artists, to have a permanent library, to make sure I have an uncompressed file, habit. Just to clear , I rip them then play off a server. Would rather be able to download cc’d quality.

I haven’t done an abx test but Spotify sounds fine and the UI is far superior, for stuff that I really like I buy and rip the cds but will likely stop doing this someday.

I use Spotify and asset as a local server for cd quality music stored locally. I tried Tidal a few years ago but became frustrated with the lack of gapless support for MusicCast.

Yes, I’m happy with the Denon, it sounds transparent and serves my needs, audessy xt32 is very good using the app.

Those extra bass and large with subs settings on the Yamaha are not consistent with a science based approach to sound and are more for impressing the unknowable who are not used to balanced sound. As I mentioned earlier they do a lot of harm to proper sub integration and if you prefer more bass...

I disagree, it never makes sense. I even cross over my Salon 2’s at 80Hz to my far more capable subs.

You can do this but I believe you shouldn’t . 1) any decent sub should be able to produce low frequencies with less distortion. 2) when you allow the low frequencies to overlap between the main speakers and the subs , there is no guarantee that they will be in phase across the overlapping...