Recent content by Wicky

I'm a user of Roon so I browse around e.g. artists other works, similar artists, the producer, record label, composor, colaborators etc. associated to what I've been listening to... also Roon's magazine style articles with recommendations, playlists etc... I think they do a pretty good job of...

The benefit of streaming music is to enable you to find new music so it's 'browse', even when listening to the back-catalog I'll browse for inspiration more often than I'll have a pre-conception of what I want to listen to.

https://audiofirstdesigns.co.uk/fidelia More discussion here on ASR: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/audio-first-fidelia-on-erin%E2%80%99s-audio-corner.58943/

Michael Kiwanuka, Small Changes

Simply believing there was a direct correlation between price and quality. Thankfully ASR has disavowed me of that misconception :)

Product design has seriously stepped up for Gustard, IMO a very nice looking unit. Of course, the X30 is backed up by solid engineering. A premium product deserving to it's price point

Have you considered fine-tuning these models? I've heard this gives big improvements especially if you are using the smaller 7B models?

Apologies, yes keyword "galvanic isolation" :)... USB filtering is not helpful

Yes, also the products @staticV3 linked to in the post above.

The Crossfeed effect may sound "better" on certain recordings where the stereo effect is overdone, this comes out more in headphone rather than speaker listening. Typically found in some older recordings. Theory, if you are interested, here https://bs2b.sourceforge.net/

It is called "width" if you mean the feature that reduces stereo to mono through to inverting the stereo channels

Measurements and theory are scientific tools and therefore subject to error, misinterpretation, or at best, an over simplification or incomplete view of more complex underlying phenomena. They are however by far the best tools we have and certainly more trustworthy than individual subjective...