Klipsch – The Three – Review
March 25, 2017 Comments Off on Klipsch – The Three – Review
” My family used Spotify exclusively with The Three (other than my testing). It worked fantastic and streamed without a single issue. Products that have connectivity issues or need to be fiddled with after a period of nonuse, are nonstarters in my house. If I have to tell my family, “wait a second while I reconfigure something on your phone real quick,” after having set it up previously, my family won’t use the product. I know, first world problems, but problems nonetheless. With The Three and Spotify Connect, not only could my family stream to the unit near the kitchen table, they could tap the device name within the Spotify app to select a different Klipsch speaker. It’s really that easy and it worked every time. ”
LG G6 Quad DAC: The Next Audiophile Phone? – Video
March 6, 2017 Comments Off on LG G6 Quad DAC: The Next Audiophile Phone? – Video
Making Hi-Res Audio Wireless
February 18, 2017 Comments Off on Making Hi-Res Audio Wireless
“The process is simple and quick. It involves declaring the product to be tested and then sending it to one of the testing houses where engineers run wireless performance tests to ensure the product meets WiSA quality and transmission requirements. Components that pass receive a certificate and permission to use the WiSA logo under the terms in our agreement.”
Hofa Diffusors
February 16, 2017 Comments Off on Hofa Diffusors
Because the paintings covered a very large portion of the walls I ordered 8 Hofa Diffusors rightaway with the idea of combining them into a 2 meter by 1 meter area above the audio system. I should also note that the sound of the Divas, perhaps due to their dipole nature, even without any treatment, is very good. At the listening position there is no peakyness in the bass, nor any evidence of room modes. However, when standing in the room talking, especially when near the system, with the bare walls there is a peak in the midrange where the sound lingers on just too long and voices sound somewhat hollow. Some would refer to this as echo, but it is actually more like reverb. It is this hollowness that I aimed to address with these panels and it was my hope that the overall performance of sound via the Divas might also improve in the process.”
Unboxing Peachtree Audio’s deepblue2 Bluetooth Speaker – Video
February 11, 2017 Comments Off on Unboxing Peachtree Audio’s deepblue2 Bluetooth Speaker – Video
On Collecting Audio Gear and Music
February 9, 2017 Comments Off on On Collecting Audio Gear and Music
“Many of the older audiophiles I know still have large collections of gear and the software to play on that gear, with multiple copies of audiophile faves such as Dark Side of the Moon or Belafonte at Carnegie Hall. But how many is enough compared to too much? That is a tricky question – sometimes it comes down to the conditions of storage – If you still have room to keep everything properly (not resting on their sides underneath 100 LPS stacked on top of them) you are a collector, not a hoarder, I suppose.”
DCS VIVALDI VERSION 2.0 REVIEW
February 3, 2017 Comments Off on DCS VIVALDI VERSION 2.0 REVIEW
” Much of the emphasis of these Version 2.0 upgrades is targeted at improving the ability of users to employ high-resolution sources. I personally continue to like playing CDs, but the industry is clearly moving with the introduction of servers. So when Quick proposed setting me up with a router and a NAS, I was eager to give it a go, especially because I have a cache of private recordings bestowed upon me by recording engineer Peter McGrath that I always enjoy playing.”
21st century room acoustic design.
January 30, 2017 Comments Off on 21st century room acoustic design.
“Herzog and De Meuron’s concert hall is built from not less then 10,000 unique, gypsum fiber acoustic panels. Parametric design, that is the result of special algorithms calculations produced more then one million unique cells, that can be in diameter from four to sixteen centimeters. ”
Top 500 SuperSonic List – Part 1
January 23, 2017 Comments Off on Top 500 SuperSonic List – Part 1
“What better way to introduce this new long term project than to quote Geoffrey Sumner’s spoken words at the beginning of the classic 1958 Decca compilation A Journey Into Stereo Sound [SKL 4001]. Nearly six decades since the introduction of stereo sound onto vinyl, and seven since Columbia cut the first 33 1/3 rpm microgroove LP for commercial release”
Do Lossless DTS-HD MA Soundtracks Stay Lossless?
January 20, 2017 Comments Off on Do Lossless DTS-HD MA Soundtracks Stay Lossless?
” When a disc with a DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is played back, depending on the capabilities of your hardware the DTS decoder will either process the core 5.1 version (downmixing to 2-channel PCM if necessary), or process both the core version plus the extension data to effectively reconstruct the full lossless 5.1- or 7.1-channel soundtrack. In cases where a 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is played on a 5.1 system, the back rear and side channel information is folded to a single set of stereo surround channels, but the resulting audio is still output in lossless, high-resolution format.”
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