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The Debut References are on sale on Amazon right now for $470 a pair, a good price. For amp, yes, Hypex, but get a two channel 502MP for ~$800 or even a 252 for ~$600 from Buckeye or VTV. I have the 502 and it has more than enough power to drive them to ear-damaging volumes (and they handle...

One of the Goldenear's was measured by Stereophile. They all use the same tweeter I believe. It measures rather poorly above 10k, rather choppy. Having demo'd the Triton 1's I can say I was not impressed with their sound. Of perhaps greater concern, the bass, which is powered, sounded...

Which raises the question unrelated to speaker break-in of whether speaker manufacturers do enough to match drivers. Snell used to test each driver and match crossover components to them and then match the entire speaker to a reference speaker. I'm sure better manufacturers do this today, but...

I have their stands and it looks like it will be easy to kit-bash them into wider stands for some Lintons or something else "larger". There are two bolts at the bottom of each leg that could easily be run up through a wider wood plinth, and the single screws at the top are beveled so a metal or...

If this is real behavior of an actual driver and differences of +/-1.5 dB are detectable by an average listener (is that the going number?), then shouldn't it be easy to prduce a measurable change in speaker behavior simply by measuring it cold and then hot? Something doesn't seem right here...

I hate to go off-topic, but I gotta ask, did you actually receive one? what was the order/receive lag?

I feel like this is a great thread to hang out in on weeks when Amir doesn't have any interesting new reviews to study and everyone's bored :)

I wouldn't be making any generalizations like "all break-in is imaginary". Amir tested one speaker, and he's limited by the precision of the testing method (granted fairly fine resolution and to the limits of what the Klippel currently is used for). In my example it was an old driver that sat...

I had a pair of Infinity Kappa car audio speakers that sat on the shelf for years before I installed them. When I did install just one of them I noticed a "thunk" from the woofer during music playback. After a while the sound went away. I have not re-opened the car door to inspect the woofer...

my concerns about the product do not make your concerns invalid. I never criticized that there was something you found inadequate about the product, only that you dismissed my concerns. Live and let live.

I'm glad you're here to tell me what's important, because I didn't know.

I originally searched for similar threads but didn't find an answer, just one very short thread that mentioned the miniDSP unit. I chose an SMSL thread because 1) I own an SMSL M300 DAC that works quite well and was $300, 2) SMSL makes a lot of good, cheap stuff, 3) the DO200 is one of their...

Looking at recent DACs like SMSL's DO200 mk II (and many others) and comparing them to SMSL's DAC/AMP's like the A300 (and several others), NONE of the DAC's have subwoofer outputs MOST of the DAC/AMPs have subwoofer outputs One might assume that the high pass filtering and signal splitting...

I really don't see where it's asking for too much considering that the A300 for $200 already does more., nor do I see where you have offered one detail on why, from an engineering or design standpoint, that it might be "too much". In fact the A300 even offers mono-amp mode where it sends a...

well, it still wouldn't give you any bass management with the main speakers, but it would derive sound from both channels. Of course such a setup would depend highly on the bass output behavior of your main speakers, a likely problematic issue. My Monoprice M-10 does have two inputs, but...

not unless you can get an output the sums the bass from both channels. Subs only have one line level in and two subs are for reinforcement typically and not channels.

From an English speaker in a 60's design I would have expected some dry gin and martini stemware...

Yes, I'm testing the RCA out on my SMSL M300 to a sub, but it has the problem that you are only pulling from one channel. While that wouldn't matter for most material where the sub-bass content is probably evenly split between the channels, some modern music has bass that was mixed to swing...

The point about processing and relative delays is well taken. If there is a technical reason why the SW are being left off the DAC's, it most like is because the companies designing the chips at the core of the cheap amps have included a SW out. For example the SMSL A300 uses an Infineon...

My point was that the DAC+subwoofer out should exist given that SMSL and others make DAC/AMPs that include subwoofer outs and that cost less than $200. Examples include SMSL's SA300 for $140 and A300 for $200. Would either of these units test well? They're cramming a lot in for <$200...