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So am I correct that Barbican is pretty bad? I always thought it must be good because it looks nice.

So I went to a couple of jazz concerts in the barbican centre in London recently. One was the great Herbie Hancock and the other was Ibrahim Malouf last night, whom I didn't know much about and just went based on the recommendations of friends. I came pretty disappointed out of both and I blame...

If I ever got rich and stupid enough to end up in the game of JewelleryFi, I would hope I could either afford one of these http://www.onlycreative.it/products/darkblock or I would just feel like a wannabe. Anything less than is a compromise.

Ok fair. Honestly, I don't care much about the brand and the people who bought them. My main issue was actually with Stereophile framing of the measurements and saying they were amongst some of the best they have seen with no mention of better measuring products that cost 100x less. While this...

I realize that but I still expect it to be perfect in every possible way not just good enough. If I were one of those people you said, I would send it back and sue the company with my army of lawyers if I found that it isn't. Unless I bought it to launder the money I made dealing crack to the poor.

No, it doesn't probably but when you pay what could be a downpayment for a house (or the full house itself in some areas) you expect at least the courtesy of actually getting the best money can buy.

It's certainly lighter. But elaborate please?

THD+N compared with measurements of pre90

I didn’t read the subjectivist stuff and jumped directly to measurements. https://www.stereophile.com/content/gryphon-commander-line-preamplifier-measurements I was curious how this monster at 100x the price fares compared to my SOTA Topping pre90. Turns out not so great after all! The funny...

LOL, good one.

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@boXem | audio Any reason why such measurements are not available on the company’s website for all products?

I should say in my second run with Revels, that’s pretty much what I focused on. In all but one track I could simply hear no difference whatsoever. But I think ABX is a better format for this kind of test.

I guess at this point I am looking to find a way to try ABX tests, but I don’t see an easy way to accomplish that. I could ask my partner to connect two of the ports of the AB switch, but it’s a bit difficult to hide that, and I think discontinuities in switching will probably give it away. I...

I was also thinking about the effect that the speakers could have had on masking any differences. Coincidentally my new Revel M105 also arrived today, so I re-randomized the cables and re-ran the test with the same set of tracks. I increased the volume by 5dB on Pre90 to -28dB gain and set it to...

32-36dB normally; a bit more quiete in the evening due to fewer cars passing.

also I just recorded the peaks of the song using the max tracking function of the SPL meter at 72dB. I think that still sits below 100mW :)

:) The speakers are 92dB efficient but I think that will not change much in what you said. The trouble is due to cable length limitation I can't sit farther away from them (which I normally do).

Yes, I also agree with Kal; though this was intentional. I should probably reword the title of the thread to make this explicit. SPL for the first track was between 55-65dB with my sound meter (not a very good one tbh) at the listening position, which was about 2m away from the tweeters; Being...

Mostly existing Hegel owners entertaining exchanging their units for something that measures better can chill now :)