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I'm using Senheiser HD560s via UAPP with Oratory or Crinacle PEQ.through E1DA9038D DAC/amp. It really is a marvellous listening experience. Using model specific PEQs, would HiFiman Sundara (£300), Edition XS (£430) or any other headphone up to about that £400ish price range be superior and if so...

Hello, looking to upgrade my Elac Debut Reference DBR62 speakers. I have a 30sq meters living room, use is 95% music and 5%.....music:cool: and my favorite genre is soul/funk/rnb. Never had a pair of floor standers, never liked them aesthetically but it seems I am in love with the looks of...

Hi, I feel a bit lost as I'm new to this space, and I'd really appreciate your help. I'm looking to get a setup that would power both a pair of active studio monitors and a pair of headphones. Both are entry-level (JBL 305P MKII and Sennheiser HD 600). At first, I had been considering buying...

Hello All, Wondering if you could help me review some of the results from REW, just concentrating on the centre speakers for each room. Measured with the same laptop and a iMM-6 Calibrated Mic with a cal file added in REW. Room1 - More sofa's pictures etc in the room and with some very cheap...

I'm creating this thread in order to discuss which midfield studio monitors are the best in terms of sound, price, looks, value for money, etc. I'll start by comparing two great brands, Focal and Adam. I havent had the pleasure to listening to the old Adam A77Xs (now discontinued because of...

I just happended to stumble upon THD+N data @ 4 Ω for the AO200, published by Aoshida. SMSL isn't even displaying this data themselves on their AO200 page. They only show results for 8 Ω. Obviously, I can't check whether the data is correct and actually belongs to the AO200. But I thought I'd...

This thread is meant to once and for all settle the age-old question on whether different non-broken DACs have a "sound" or if all DACs sound the same! :cool: ...just kidding - those debates will probably never end. :p Let me start by providing the link to the ABX test. Note: There are 16...

Hi! I’d like to simply offer my impressions of these headphones if somebody is pondering which to buy or how are they like. Both headphones are well known and widely considered to be the best in their price range, HD650 being a dynamic headphone and Sundara planar magnetic. These technological...

My journey so far... I've been on the hi-fi merry-go-round for a little while now, and having an engineering background, decided to go the vintage route as an attempt to save on costs. I've found that after re-capping these units from the 70's, these units generally perform quite well...

Apples to oranges or pear-to-pear networking, that is the question. https://www.lewitt-audio.com/microphones/lct-recording/lct-540s So that on top is the bog-standard hearing threshold curve for sinusoidal stimuli, I assume. Now what would have happened if they chose another analysis...

I saw a similar concept on a headphone forum I follow, I thought it would be great/fun to get a list running of ranked Studio monitors/powered speakers with the great community here. I am a new member but have been following the threads on here for a while List/rank the studio monitors/powered...

I wanted to compare amplifiers measured elsewhere to the ASR standard measurements: SINAD at 5W in 4 ohms, and power at 1% THD+N in 4 ohms. So I chose some amplifiers that interested me more (let me know if you wish I can add more), read their graphs, converted to SINAD, color coded and created...

Just a short video I made, have not made one in a while... but I wanted to share as thought some users here would be interested and enjoy the discussions. I try to split the video into objective performance and then my subjective thoughts. Assume the poll question is for good performing dacs...

CD player vs. DAC shootout I was curious to compare parameters of the nicely built CD player Vincent CD-S3 (2004) vs. a good but not the newest DAC, Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus (2012). Cambridge DacMagic Plus was already tested here. Vincent CD-S3 is a player with HDCD decoding option and has...