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I don't know exactly what made some channels of the amplifier failed. I suspect it was maybe because of too high temperature (my system's cabinet was not very well ventilated), but it is supposed to be protected against that. The good news, at least for you (!) is that it never broke my...

Slam: sufficient amplifier power to play dynamic range peaks without clipping; Texture: fully subjective reviewer's creative way to rather describe the quality of the recording they're listening to... :D

The new DEQX Pre 8. Need it as a gift because it will be way too costly for my budget :(

Agree ! I had a 7 channels NAD27 for my active 3 way DIY loudspeakers. Without any obvious reasons, when the guarantee period was over..., 4 channels died one after the other within one year. It has always been running rather warm for a class D, maybe it was a ventilation problem, but hey...

Buckeye Amps may not have the crazy sexy look of a Pass Labs or a D'Agostino, but for a fraction of the price, they beat them easily on the test bench when electronic performance is what that counts. If I had to impress someone with my system, I would do it with its SQ rather than its look or...

Yep ! This is why I choked to jump into the new DEXQ pre-8 acquisition and testing. I'm afraid that, to reach more non-technical users and to lower after sales support costs, the software will be developed to be more user friendly and possibly do a lot of calibration automatically behind the...

Fully agree. Too bad they don't know what to do with all those microphones... Approximately 35,000 titles in my music database. I think I have enough of my two hands to count the number of tracks where the drum is well recorded and sound real, with punch, as it does on the stage. Very...

This is a low cost but very effective imaging and soundstage enhancer :)

Yes but... I'm looking forward to receiving my new Buckeye Purifi amplifiers (2 X 3 channels) for my 3 way active speakers to replace the current one who is dying slowly one channel at the time... As soon as I received them, I will certainly be able to vote a "full Yes" !

It's been a while since Amir tested the M27 and these tests of course can't evaluate the long term reliability. I have been enjoying mine for 9 years but over the last two years I had to replace 3 channels that died without any obvious observable signs and no obvious reasons, I never get close...

Yep. The "Circle of confusion", again and always...: our worst enemy! Even if you would have calibrated your speakers perfectly to a "well recognized" target curve, it will works great for some recordings, but for some others, you will not get the "pleasing results" expected; it can be even...

Harmonics generated by an amplifier are considered as distorsion in world of audio since something is added that was not on the source. But in the world of music, harmonics added to the original makes it sound richer, especially the 2nd harmonics: it is like adding other performers that plays...

I would avoid any manipulation of the signal if it would have been recorded perfectly, which is not the case most of the time. Circle of confusions again, we have to live with the hearing and musical tastes of the recording engineers, and moreover, decisions made from their small studio monitor...

I would rather say "why do we think a natural drum is ok but the recording engineers don't record it that way"

Fully agree ! As an amateur drum player, I do know very well how a drum sound and it is rather the exception when I find an album in which I find that the drum is well recorded and kept truly as a percussion instrument. Of course the produced SPL is often too loud to be recorded without a bit...

Thank you for you answer: loud and clear !! I thought that maybe both of them are playing digitally with the phase of some signals to create those effects, but it is certainly more complicated than that!!

The way you described these effects you had with uBACCH on the soundstage looks somewhat similar to what I get when I use the JRiver DSP Studio effects. Here are the settings I use: Of course, the quality of the results depends largely on how is made the mixing of the recording: for...

Same for me. After reading those comments in this discussion, I thought I may be the only one here who considers his DEQX processor as the best piece of audio equipment I've given to myself as a long time DIY speaker builder: eboleyn, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! The DEQX processor...

An other application is for active speakers where your tweeter is directly connected to the amplifier without any crossover in between. This ensure no DC will get to the tweeter should there be an amplifier failure or more simply, from amplifier's turn on/off thump (should there is) or any...

Hoping it is not in the "too good to be true" category. Keep us posted Amir ! (Hoping one day I will be able to listen to music without this sinewave generator working in the background ;) )