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Funny you mention luxury goods in the same sentence you argue it's just a speaker... Speakers are luxury goods. Speakers for Atmos or in wall installation even moreso. It doesn't have to be priced in any way like it's simple, because it's not. Many people using these will be doing ground up...

https://www.ferrofish.com/product/pulse8-ae/ New product from Ferrofish. Quoted DAC THD+N is 115dB, ADC 108dB. It's a pure ADAT ADC/DAC and does not function as an audio interface - you would need another card like an RME HDSPe Raydat to connect this to a computer. It sits in a very nice...

If you think the Gen2 is colored I don't know what to tell you. It is a very premium product with good components and implementation in every single path. An upgrade to anything else will be a very modest difference, especially a Topping 2x2 which doesn't perform as well as their consumer...

If we are seeing very high distortion numbers in a simple sweep, it stands to reason multi tone performance will be much worse and probably a lot easier to hear. Cdm65 is closer to 10% THD in the low bass, not 1 or 2%, and reaches 10% in a multi tone measurement above 100hz. Also a trained...

Good lord this forum sometimes... Great speaker for a good price. But it would be nice to see one of these cardioid speakers achieve lower distortion in the bass. For this price it's acceptable.. at the 8C/Kii price point, not at all.

You can always reduce gain up front and then add it back on the way out. Not ideal but there are a lot of clean boosts out there that would make up 10dB if you had to trim the input down 10dB. I even tested my outboard hi-Z input to confirm it'd have enough headroom for what the Internet said...

measurements of the hi-z input on the ART TransX... quite nice! I was getting a lot of noise running XLR to an XLR->TS connector straight into the TransX, so this is "re-amped" through a Littlelabs Redeye, the really old passive one. AIO Pro balanced out to the Redeye line level in, the...

Yup that was totally it. Fixed now... ART TransX two channel transformer isolated discrete transistor preamp. Much better. Deleted the other post... I still have to test the hi-z input to make it more comparable to the direct boxes in OP, but I think this is still helpful if you're...

No I didn't have loopback enabled, but @KSTR post turned the lightbulb on. I was almost certainly monitoring analog 2 input on analog 2 output, creating a loop. My bad. The output I used usually feeds my reamp box, so I am always monitoring it from the analog input (which comes from the ART...

The ringing is present in the original calibration as well. I tried at quite a few different sweep levels and it was the same in every case. I thought if I used a calibration it would level out the measurement signal but it didn't so I definitely have some more to investigate. I can share the...

Can you give me a quick rundown on how I could run a similiar set of measurements? I was in need of some transformers to solve ground loop issues so based on this thread I got a two channel discrete mic pre with Jensen transformers... But it's also an ART, so I want to verify its performance...

What are you using for the smaller midi controller? I've got a cheap m-audio 49 key and an Akai mini for when I want something really small but the keys always feel horrible.. even for a synth guy like me.

Of course it is, fact remains its DAC performance is on par with par with low end cell phone dongle amps If this is not audible... Perhaps you are literally deaf. Or maybe you just want to argue. If you haven't actually owned a UC and can't read charts properly, I guess it's the latter - good...

Are you sure you are reading those charts properly... Those are mediocre measurements in 2024 and exactly in line with the spec sheet. DA THD+N below 100dB is not fine and easily audible. Look at where the IMD curves start.. that is even easier to hear and dongles do better. 2nd harmonic is...

I wouldn't build around a UC anymore, the converters are downright bad by modern standards. Thd+n is so bad you can easily hear a difference going to a truly transparent converter. They have a pleasing, somewhat warm sound due to the distortion but cleaner is better. Not sure if I would go to...

My big takeaway from this is that it is completely and entirely pointless to even try and discuss audio production on this forum... Dunning-Kruger to the max here. Being somewhat astute consumers does not, in fact, give you any insight into being producers...

Is someone playing an electric guitar also an engineer, then? Lots of technology at play there. You guys really need to listen to a microphone shootout. Sweetwater has a few of them - the differences between microphones, even ultra high dollar ones, are very pronounced. There is no one size...

How can there be any science in audio production when consumers consume music on an enormous array of largely terrible systems? We could only even begin to handle this by starting off by banning things like air pods, laptop speakers, mono Bluetooth speakers, etc because they are utterly...

XLR to TRS is no trouble at all, it's just two different style ends. I gotta say my brief experience with ARC was horribly unpleasant. Bloated, laggy software which is a deal breaker all on its own. The measurement process was extremely time consuming demanding 21 measurements. Then the end...

Minidsp does offer balanced IO with TRS jacks.. available on the Flex, at least. Toslink from one system, spdif from the other, then four balanced outs with monitor control. Dirac base latency on my system is just over 4ms plus delay correction on my filters ~23ms but since I am doing Dirac in...