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ooo, this looks just the ticket. The non-pro is the right price etc. And it even measures really well for 4ohm speakers etc. Shame the parametric eq is only four band... but I think the ten band graphic might be sufficient, I'm pretty sure REW has a mode to create 10 band graphic eq curves. Just...

Not heard of that before - that's a beautiful looking product. It's a bit overkill for the purpose, with all the wireless streaming etc, it's quite pricey here in Australia - US$1,000 AUD$1,600. I dont' see anything on the product page about being able to set an EQ? Maybe I should have put a...

Hi, I'm looking for a combination DAC/Power Amp unit that has: 1a. Either HDMI or Optical input from TV 1b. USB input (so I can run laptop to run REW to measure the room) 2. Enough output power to power bookshelf speakers 3. Remote Control for volume 4. Ability to set an EQ curve. I plan to...

It's for studio usage that I'm interested.

Looks great. is there anyway for the latency of a DAC to be added to the testing? In ASIO if you can?

In a way, it's kinda pointless measuring digital devices using analogue testing equipment. Simply looking at the resulting 1 and 0 on the bitstream and error rate etc, will tell you if the cables have any inherent improvement. The same 1 and 0 fed into a DAC will always produce the same output.

Genelecs are popular in studios for their unhyped response curve, natural impulse response, and most of all, a wide listening field where tonal response stays relatively consistent (so you can move up and down the console without colour shifts occurring)

On a more serious note, I'd pay good money (not $1400) for a lightning cable that my kids couldn't break every five minutes.

You probably didn't use good enough quality Wax. Here, this should help: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/164088871412

There's nothing new about these tests. There was a test over twenty years ago of a coat hanger vs a top end digital cable, that showed there was zero difference. Sadly the plonkers that buy that crap just won't be swayed by science or logic.

I think at this stage we all know that cd transports are all the same, and digital cables are all the same, power cords make no difference, power conditioners make no difference, speaker cables make marginal to no difference. Given the choice I would rather your valuable testing time was spent...

Not sure - whatever the current ones are. I always quite liked the look of them, but he was pretty clear they weren't for me given the criteria I'd given him... Either way, still super happy with my JBL 305p's. Now - just need to fix the acoustics in my crappy 2.5m x 2.5m room - utterly sucks...

I was lucky enough to audition a huge range of monitors when I bought my new ones recently. Went in prepared to spend genelec money, and left with 305p. A short list below, but I listened to many more: 1. ATC , I think they are the 80, but the smaller ATC. Absolute dynamite. Just amazing in...

Depends what you're looking for in a speaker, i would say. Bose surround systems, yep, totally hot garbage, they don't even sound good in the special store demo rooms. Really zingy and literally painful, tuned to be super trebly, which I guess impresses some people in a store. If having tiny...

I own this for my desktop setup. Connected to Dynaudio BM5 passive monitors (about 20 years old or more at this point). Whilst it's not the best little amp ever, it was a huge improvement over the denon receiver it replaced, that really struggled with the 4ohm load and distorted audibly and was...

I have these headphones, on an Asus stx essence (that Amirs measurements say is trash, but in reality it sounds fine, but am looking at switching to a DX3 pro just for a change and something to compare with). My experience has been just as Amir has found, bass is attenuated, great mid and needs...

Absolutely agree!!! I almost wrote this on my other posts - the whole balanced signal thing is all correct on paper - but in real life, you simply can't hear the difference. I started the whole thing to show the OP why he doesn't need balanced, not to say that he does... that was my original...

https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/balanced-vs-unbalanced-analog-interfaces excerpt: <quote> TYPICAL PERFORMANCE OF AUDIO INTERFACES Based on what I have seen while testing audio products in the lab, I have attempted to put together some typical performance numbers for audio...

"There in no use in using XLR unless you need really, really long cables or you have grounding issues or hum. " Well - the third use of balanced XLR is when you want to start building a system that exceeds 100db of THD/SINAD (higher SNR and CMMR) but with budget systems this is a long long way...

One thing to watch, those AV amps tend not to play well with 4ohm speakers (distortion goes up, and you run risk of tripping the current protection circuit - I changed from a Denon AV amp that was known to have issues with 4ohm to the Topping PA3 on 4ohm Dynaudio BM5 passives, and the PA3 is...