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I am perfectly fine with that. Anyone who puts out these kind of audio reviews deserves a piece of my pie, no questions asked. I wish that others, supposedly "non-profit" organisations, were honest enough to admit that they use up to 80% of donations for their own "operational expenses" (read...

Ok, so this is a short list (I am relatively new to this wonderful audio hobby): 1) JBL Live 660 NC (I use them for phone calls and occasional bluetooth listening where noice canceling is more important than sound quality); 2) Fostex T50 RP 50th Anniversary (I use them for dedicated listening...

I believe it should not affect the sound because the fuse is situated before power supply in the electrical path. I would like to point out that I intentionally use "electrical path" instead of "signal path", because there is no audio signal going through the fuse. If what I just wrote is 100%...

I rund active speakers in desktop setting. It is simpler and presumably there is a better matching between amp and drivers. Powered speakers are also fine, they need one power cable less but one signal cable more (to connect two boxes). Passive speakers can also work perfectly fine, so if you...

Now I risk to sound like someone who knows very little about audio stuff, but I wonder what is the point of directional cables? Alright, I can imagine some audiophiles being concerned about two RCA outputs from source/preamp being very close to each other and somehow extorting tiny amount of EM...

If you go too large you have too much of a narrow sweet spot for highs and you also increase mass (inertia) of membrane, making it slower and therefore less detailed sounding in the treble bandwidth. If you go too small, you cannot move enough air to achieve high SPL without large excursion and...

I must confess I did not thought about it (since I usually do not mix audio stuff that I use at home with audio stuff for outside) but I am very glad you have mentioned it. Slick thinking Sir indeed. Makes even stronger case for my belief that there should be such products on sale.:)

Sometimes companies tweak in order to attract new reviews and sell new tweaked version and sometimes they must change specs because of parts supply depleting and they sell it as a new tweaked version. There is no mystery that the new tweaked versions are often worse.

Perfect example of a product where if you do the design right and put an old geezer with fake half-british accent waving his spectacles in front of similarly old and posing geezers, you get to sell 17 Kg of scrap metal for a price of a decent home cinema system.

Funny enough, I was more than once in the following situation: Being outside with a friend from a band I use to play with in, wanting to listen the same music, so we can discuss it afterwards (both having wired IEMs). On top of that, I am a nature lover: When one packs lightly for nature...

You have a bin of Stax headphone amps? Does it sit between a bin of USSR space programme valves and a bin (shipping container) of ATCs main monitors?:D

I never though of too tight (or too loose) clamping force to be a dealbreaker for headphones. For example, I have stretched headband of my JBL 660s over-ears by letting them sit on smallish speaker box over the night. They were really tight on my head and problem easily solved. Although I do...

Very good writing sir. For a moment I forgot I do not even like tube sound and wanted to obtain this particular amp. It proves further the importance of stories we tell to ourselves and others in order to make sense of the world and to direct our actions.

Hi Amirm. Thank you for all the tests - you are slowly becoming one of my favourite AV guys on the web (along with, for other reasons, The Cheap Audio Man). You wonder why someone needing this functionality would simply not use a computer. I probably belong to margin users (at least among the...

I think Darko simply makes vids for different kind of crowd than us here. I am sure many of his fans would call us nerds incapable of making the ever important distinctions in audio world: Distinction between what is really important and what is merely true.

Me too:rolleyes:

Congratulations on enjoying C boxes from Abacus. I wonder do you use their "Linetrieber variabel 2020", which is also a preamp for those C boxes? If you do, what are your impressions on running them with/without the little Abacus preamp? I am asking because I already own the preamp, use it as a...

That is pretty much unavoidable. Majority of active speakers made in the west (if not all of them) contain components made in China (or some other asian country). I personally do not remember coming across a modern speaker that is 100% made in the west, except for some single driver passives. If...

When listening to music on my Wharfedale's, which sit on stands some 30 cm from both sides of my TV, I cover the TV screen with a thick blanket. The difference is very subtle with acoustic/organic music and a bit more pronounced with rock/metal/electronica.