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  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: When Audio Reviews Face Legal Threats: dCS vs. GoldenOne roderickvd Jul 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? mediumroast Jul 26, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: Bay Area Meet July 28, 2024 vzamayoa Jul 23, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Hearing limits experiments waxxmonger Jun 21, 2024
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Austrian audio Hi-X60 Riotvan Jul 26, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Schiit Mjolnir 3 Impressions nilov Jul 26, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: USB DAC/amp (dongles) Climber Jul 25, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: ZMF Earpads for HD6xx Series Headphones Biodegraded Jul 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Diretta Thread Failed Engineer Jul 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: The just announced Schiit Skoll Polemarkos Jul 25, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Denafrips Hestia preamp review Wojciech Czupta Jul 16, 2024
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Review Fosi Audio V3 Mono with different Speakers dethaw Jul 9, 2024
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Nearfields for audiophile listening? Collusion Jul 26, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: HIFIMAN Headphone Compendium JK47 Jul 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Drop x JVC HA-FDX1 DD IEM: The second coming of ... micr0g Apr 4, 2023
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Schiit Ragnarok distortion analysis Serious Jul 18, 2024
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: KTE Spring2 technical measurements 5bs5vuiz4 Feb 28, 2024
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Riva Audio Festival (Wand series) hawaiiancerveza Nov 27, 2023
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: The Quest for Quiet Hrodulf Apr 19, 2024
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

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    1. EU Forum

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    2. Loaner Programs

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      1. Rules, Payments, and Other

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    3. SBAF Blogs

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    4. DIY

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      Latest: How to Pass a little time ...cont dBel84 Jul 26, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

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      Latest: WTB: Schiit Aegir 2 Polemarkos Jul 26, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: FluxLab FA-10 powerful headphone amplifier RenEH Apr 7, 2024
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    2. Beezar

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    3. Bloom Audio

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    4. Schiit

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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: Have Used Headphones, Amps, or DACs you are looking to get rid of? Trade In and Save with The Sourc netforce Oct 22, 2020
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