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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

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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 now 80s edition (although late 70s new wave is OK too) Deep Funk Jan 24, 2020 at 2:52 AM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: SoCal (ZMFestivus) meet Fall 2019 - Impressions Veritas Jan 15, 2020
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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: Burst Response! HD800, SR-207, HD650 dietwater Jan 21, 2020 at 3:09 AM
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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: ZMF EIKON & ZMF ATTICUS I_want_all_the_tacos Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08 AM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Soekris "dac1541": DAC/Amp - Stream of Consciousness Impressions Otto Jan 24, 2020 at 1:54 AM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: DAP talk (formerly best DAPs 2015) Scubadude Jan 21, 2020 at 12:13 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: HD650 KISS mod RobS Jan 3, 2020
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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: Pi 2 Design - How do I get started? G0rt! Jan 24, 2020 at 5:49 AM
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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: Schiit Sol Turntable Review - Episodic. SuperRoo Jan 23, 2020 at 8:05 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Bottlehead 300B Kaiju yotacowboy Jan 23, 2020 at 4:35 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Nearfields for audiophile listening? bilboda Jan 24, 2020 at 6:55 AM
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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: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar I_want_all_the_tacos Jan 23, 2020 at 11:33 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 ... limesoft Jan 23, 2020 at 1:47 AM
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: JDS Atom Measurements And Review Forza AudioWorks Jan 6, 2020
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Schiit Bifrost-2 Technical Measurements atomicbob Jan 21, 2020 at 8:03 PM
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA1X and SA2X passive attenuator technical measurements zonto Dec 18, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: Using a microphone calibrator Luckbad Jan 3, 2020
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Rosson Audio Design RAD-0 DEATHxMACHINE Jan 23, 2020 at 2:09 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog fp627 Dec 31, 2019
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    4. DIY

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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

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: Yggdrasil A2 Gen 5 RobS Jan 24, 2020 at 6:23 AM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

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

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

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    4. Food and Drink

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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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    2. Beezar

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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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    4. Schiit

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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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