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Hi All, I've got two separate issues going on right now, in my office/home studio space and in my living room/home theatre space. The first, in my home theatre - I have a gaming PC hooked up to my surround system and TV, which I use regularly. When plugged in normally, there's a weird...

Question for you folks about how best to optimize room-correction in my new space. My front three speakers - Totem Forests and a speaker I built myself based on the Totem Signature One with the same drivers as the Forest acting as centre channel - are running from a Denon X4700H receiver, out...

Hi guys, I'm pulling my hair out at a problem and hoping someone here can give me a suggestion. Here's the background: We've been renovating our family home for the past two years and haven't been living there - we've been in two apartments over that time, but last week we finally got to move...

I'm currently working on a couple of microphone mod projects involving a 47-style large diaphragm tube mic, and a C12-style large diaphragm tube mic. For those not super familiar with microphone tech, tube microphones house the tube in the microphone body. The standard 3-pin XLR cable is...

My wife and I watched The Menu - the new-ish film with Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and Nicholas Hoult, directed by Mark Mylod, who is mostly a TV director on shows like Succession and Game of Thrones. It was weird, funny, and disturbing, and I highly recommend it to folks around these...

This editorial ran in the latest edition of Sound on Sound. SoS is a magazine more oriented to pro audio / recording and engineering of audio than to home users and listeners, but I think the underlying point of this piece is one well-taken...

I'm starting a project to build a pair of bookshelf speakers for a friend. This friend is not a discerning audiophile. His primary speakers for the past 15 years have been a pair of Logitech computer speakers with 2" drivers and a "subwoofer" with a ~5" driver. A few years back I built him a...

Hi Folks, I'd very much appreciate your feedback on the following project. My main system features a pair of Totem Forest speakers in cherry. I've had them for around fourteen years and I love them and have no intention of replacing them any time in the near future. I've been using them in...

Denafrips paid a fair bit of money to make this review show up in my news feed today: Denafrips Ares II, Pontus II, Venus II, and Terminator Plus - Hi-Fi Advice The review reads like it was auto-generated by AI full of audiophile buzzwords - it's nonsense from start to finish without a single...

Hi guys, I have a new album out today - 'A Voyage / A Destination' - it's a mix of symphonic progressive rock and more modern post-rock music. There are two prog epics - "Pool of the Naiads" featuring Eric Gillette of Neal Morse Band on lead vocals and guitar, with Lars Fredrik Frøislie of...

Hi folks, My current recording setup is built around a Focusrite Clarett 4Pre USB interface with four additional DIY preamps - JL Audio Baby Animal preamps with J99v opamps. I find the focusrite Clarett preamps are very clean and transparent sounding, but lack a bit of warmth. The JL Audio...

So, I'm going on a bit of an adventure over the first week of May that will involve seeing around 20 rock, metal, and fusion bands over the course of five days. I would like to survive the experience with my hearing intact. I have a load of standard foam earplugs kicking around, and a set of...

[Edit] So I changed the HDMI connection from the receiver to the TV from the 'HDMI/ARC' input to HDMI2, and it works. So it is the TV, but god only knows why. If anyone has a suggestion for getting it to work on the ARC connection (since I kind of need that), it'd be much appreciated. Hi...

Hi folks, I see from searches that similar questions have been asked before, but not quite for my particular setup, so apologies for some redundancy. I pulled the trigger yesterday on a Denon AVR-X4700H which will be used as preamp/processor for front channels and amplifier for...

Hi folks, Long-time reader, first time poster, with one objective question and some opinions to solicit. First the objective question: I'm currently biamping my speakers from my receiver using the main outs and assignable rear speaker outs. If I want to switch to a dedicated power amplifier...