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Never heard that from my sub before. The amount of woofer excursion from both the sub and my speakers is extreme.

YES. On the HE6 it causes dizziness. One of my favorite OSTs!

Wow, holy hell that's awesome!

'Vinyl resurgence'? You're 20 years out of date. CDs now!

Save your money. Don't be dumb.

There's nothing like those red-painted needles with bright shiny tips. Nothing. Forget vinyl, shellac is the way to go.

But seriously, I cannot see the point of getting into vinyl. If already into it, fine. But...

Well, if you really want another way to spend, spend spend, then it might be a good idea.

Arcam CD73 - might be just the newness, but the immediacy and pace and slam/dynamics I’m hearing initially is awesome! Might be some noise issues though - I may be hearing a bit of etch possibly, but will see. Need to do some detailed comparing at some point soon.

I wonder if it is more a change in digital inputs and the sound difference between them. I doubt that the Arcam really is better than your SMS-200 ultra especially with recent clubhouse additions. Weird. I was using a Emotiva ERC3 and sold it after how bad the streamer spanked it.

Could be partially the SPDIF vs USB thing, but I can say for certain that the Sotm going through Eitr into SPDIF on Yggdrasil doesn’t sound anything like this.

never used as pure DACs, but iFi nano BL iDSD and xDSD are great sounding with IEMs primarily.

I get space (atmosphere), bass and smoothness from this thing. Bass is strong, but not offensive, and no hint of digititius anywhere. And a big soundstage too. Really fun to listen to. It’s not a resolution champ or crazy on transients/dynamics for sure, but flows really well and sounds pretty natural.

Competent Burr-Brown implementations are about as good as it gets for delta-sigma.

Remember to model the deteriorating hearing.

I’m going to create an inverse model for that, so the remasters stop being so bright they strip the paint off your walls.

And the standard reply is, of course, because I don't need it anymore.

Maybe trying to weed out problems but if they didn’t list any problems they are unlikely to say so later. Many times the answer should be “Because I have new toy obsession and I can’t stop buying shit.”

The day a sound system can sound like a real cello.. ill become a believer

Depends on the band for me, really. Mostly studio albums for me personally, but occasionally there'll just be a few live performances that have that bit of organic realism you don't get in a studio.

^The day is already here, you just haven't spent enough $$$.

Any more impressions of this bad boy?

I’ve got a bunch of incoherent notes on it. Will try to get it into shape for a post soon. Spoiler alert though: I sold it last night.

Gotta raise money for Aegir(s) right? :)

Prob

What is this? One of Ra**e's projects?

Him or another 'influencer'

Audiophile Style is the new site name for the former “Computer Audiophile”. And I’m sorry but Chris Connaker is about as far from stylish or an influencer as you can get. His new videos are also terrible, and his writing is not much better. He and Rafe should duke it out for worst audio reviewer. At least Srajan/6moons takes good pics of gear and don’t just post manuf. promo shots.

@yotacowboy cancelled how? We’re you on a free trial as well, or maybe a 1 year sub?

subscription cancelled, but tracked down a 30 day trial coupon, so no lapse unless this stupid shit lasts into february

There goes your monies.

Hilarious!

Will feel better when my Yggdrasil comes back to me.

I think most of those that I've seen have been carry-overs from the Changstar days that just haven't contributed as much on SBAF

There's no real standard for Friend status except that they are friends. If Marv knows you in real life, he can give instant status.

Fair enough, and makes sense in the case of someone who is known IRL for sure.

If you’re into self-flagellation go read the second paragraph.

Press release on Veterans Day, how touching. Another entry for the wall of shill.

I actually didn’t mind Lavorgna on that site before. At least I could read his stuff without wanting to gouge my eyeballs out. He has a new site now with a really weird name: TwitteringMachines.com
Strange name.

BLASPHEMY!!!

Ok, you're probably right. Why did you have to go use the word flesh? It's kinda creepy. We normally call it meat.

I actually totally made it up. It could be true, makes sense to me which is why I throw it around. I'd apologize for ruining your appetite, but it would be disingenuous at best.

Listening on the JBL, right?