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Hello and a warm welcome to the ASR Forum! Fortunately, the question is very easy to answer: The Evernote, as a black device, has a richer, stronger bass foundation. It might sound a little dark, though. So to prevent it from being too imprecise in the treble range, you should definitely...

After all the other active cardioid speakers have been mentioned already, I‘d like to add the Mesanovic CDM65 as another option. The additional Stereo Hub or the new miniDSP Flex HT, which will also support WISA wireless audio standard, would be relatively cheap pre-amp options, for a total of...

If I'd be you, I'd take the Wharfedales. - local product, so most likely a better spare part and service availability. Since you plan to keep / use them for a long time, that's even more of a factor. - if you're not able to order both and compare them at home directly to each other, you'll be...

Not at all. Here's the link to the thread (it's in German, though): Denon x4800h Bi-Amping + Klipsch RP-8000f Erfahrung @ www.hifi-forum.de The OP has absolutely no clue what he does and what he talks about. I tried to translate some of it and from the other thread the same OP started: I...

And while all of that sounds really great and might even be true, it just doesn’t make any audible difference in 99,x% of the use cases… And you know that it doesn’t, which is the reason you tend to answer as vaguely as possible to any reply that questions your narrative. At this point it’s...

Oh boy, here we go again. Don't you ever get tired of singing the same old song of any NAD devices being superior to every other possible solution, @pogo? And why exactly should that be the case? By the way, Soundstagehifi seems to be a very, very credible source for information...

If you keep in mind that with an increased feature set and therefore also complexity in a box, it’s also getting harder to keep distortion and noise levels in check and compare the ASR reviews of the Matrix mini, miniDSP, Purifi based power amps and the NAD v10 (although not the upgraded...

It doesn’t matter. Both solutions provide three digit SINAD numbers, more than enough power and Dirac room correction, so you won’t be able to notice any audible difference.

Imho it’s not a question of quality loss but a question of whether you prefer to have everything in one box or separately… There are pros and cons to both.

The one and only answer is: We don't know and never will. Did the Sansui 8080/9090 really sound better than all the Marantz models? What does better mean anyway? Has the awesome feeling of finally finding the receiver they've been looking for, had an influence on their expectation and therefore...

It depends, but definitely more likely than reliably identifying one of two solid state amps in an ABX test.

As @peng has already correctly pointed out, nobody claims that all amplifiers sound the same. Intentional sounding, poor design, the cheapest components, age, etc. can certainly result in audible differences. It's about the order of magnitude and the resulting questions of whether the...

Since you’re the one who thinks that this is an absolute necessity for everyone who wants to buy a new amp and doesn’t get tired of posting it in every other thread: How about buying the equipment to do that and providing that info by yourself? Or what do you mean when you say „we should“?

English isn't my mother language and thus, from time to time, I fail to understand some things properly. Unfortunately that seems to be the case with your recent post, because, even after reading it a couple of times, I don't understand what you're trying to say... :confused: How has sound...

My top five might be the strangest mix of music in the history of top fives... :D

While the audible impact of room correction alone might be lower at lower volumes and therefore is less of a "requirement", imho there's no harm in doing it anyway if your audio gear already offers the feature. With automatic loudness features like DynamicEQ from Audyssey on the other hand, you...

Is it, though? My personal experience says that more often than not, it's exactly the other way round... Most expensive and/or "high-end" technology brings a whole lot of features, which do not exist in their cheaper counterparts. And with each additional feature, the number of configuration...

Before I go on, here's a fun little story: The Marantz SR8002 was actually the second AVR I ever owned, replacing a Pioneer VSX-1024 and later being replaced with the SR6012. I loved it, because it waAnd it's still running strong in the living room of a friend of mine... :) --- My...

Honest question: In your opinion, how does one aquire a reference of good sound? I don't even know how to respond to that. In one single paragraph, you managed to disregard about everyone who ever designed a single piece of audio gear and 95% of the members of this forum, served the cliché of...

Their respective room correction features and your ability to set them up properly will make the difference, not the hardware itself. With the X4800H you‘ve got the choice between Audyssey XT32 and Dirac, the RZ50 has Dirac „only“. Whatever it means, it’s way too subjective to be relevant for...