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Certainly has all the buzzword specs and a lot of inputs packed close together, why do I worry about dependability?

I can't handle it. It verges on very high-end, sophisticated trolling, especially on this site.

Right.

"..The owner of a Patek-Philippe Nautilus or an Audemars-Piguet Royal Oak or a Vacheron Constantin Overseas (steel sport watches all) isn't going to swoon in admiration of a Rolex Submariner on the arm of a person with whom they are interacting. But neither will they disrespect it--those owners...

DAC: $100 - $300 (with state of art sinad) AMP: $200 - $1200 (with state of art sinad) Cables: $10 - $100 Speakers: Really variable but yes up to $20K depending on space Anyone can pay any amount they want for good looking equipment but you can also look really stupid, fast.

This reminds me of fake posts I'd see on photography websites sometimes, like: "gee guys, I found this lens that says f/1.2 on it for $20, should I buy it?" It's designed to draw attention and most likely completely faked by someone who's bored who wants people to argue about...

I meant to say pffb-based 3255 systems like this Fosi v3 mono, but I'd bet that 100 blind ABX tests against a Purify for example vs non-PFFB 3255 like A07 Max - same speakers, same everything else, typical modern speakers - abx test would bring something close to 50-50, random plot, for...

Here's the eternal issue: In this crowd, when everyone has the necessary background, it's obvious looking at those charts that the Purify/etc amplifiers will not be able to provide any audible difference over the Fosi that a human being could detect with any modern speaker playing music at any...

I'm late to the game but a search turns up nothing, what is an A400 going to be? DAC, DAC/amp combo, what chips and technologies, etc?

Speaker cable: Roll of 50' of 12-gauge from Amazon Basics Coax cable: n/a USB cable: Use what comes with the equipment, or one of my standard USB cables I have lying around Power cable: Use what comes with the equipment

Want to know how my entry into classical music happened? It wasn't years of learned research, didn't involve acquiring a deep historical knowledge of the pieces or composers or music theory leading up to a wine-like appreciation for the nuances of the art - No, I simply hit 'play' on the...

Has someone measured sinad, etc? I don't see any actual reviews out there yet.

^ Very good response to this type of question IMO. The only possibly viable argument I've heard against this is based on interesting data about the capabilities of the human eardrum, inner ear and auditory nerve - apparently there's some data suggesting that higher frequencies do reach the...

Coming to this conclusion as well. There's only so much snake oil that can continue to exist outside of the realm of objective measurements like SINAD. Really good, affordable powered speakers might be the next field to take off now that these excellent audio technologies are so cheap...

Being that we both find ourselves on ASR, your amps are indeed my concern. I hereby invoke forum agreement A6-1 and you are required to reveal your amps.

Do people usually use monoblocks with a pre-amps of some sort where they actually adjust volume? I imagine people usually set both monoblock amps at top volume, and then actually adjust the volume via a remote control streamer/pre-amp? Or how do you make sure volume is equalized on both...

That's what I was wondering, but I suspect there are multiple definitions for 'headroom' existing in this same thread

I think this entire thread boils down to the fact that Zaphod thinks the "C" amplifier above is the best of those three, and that makes the others 'bad', especially B, which is obviously a Gatsby-esqe pretender that wants to walk in the rarified air of real 150wpc amplifiers but doesn't deserve...

What definition of 'headroom' is Crown Audio using in their calculator below, and is it the same thing the OP is talking about? Is 'peak power' and 'headroom' being treated as the same thing consistently?

After reading this thread I'm not entirely sure everyone's working with the same exact definition of "headroom." Aside from that I suspect the above illustrates the bulk of what OP is arguing against, even if he doesn't realize it, and he may not realize it because he's applying some older...