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    Magico M3 and M2 construction

    From what I have read here, everyone who has heard both seem to think M3 has significantly more bass than the M2. So coming from a Sasha W/P, I suspect you’ll prefer the used M3 if you can find one. I’m perfectly happy with my M2 but I have a smaller room. That said, if you’re upgrading from a...
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    How would you spend my money?

    Having a photo of your room really helps. As your place reminds me of my own listening room and in the end, I had limited options to move my seat or to put up bass traps so I ended up resorting to DSP after strategically placed bass traps to optimize the sound. My gut feeling is that you don't...
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    Magico in Munich

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4sWz3qO9L6/?igsh=MXV5cDA5dXN2YW02aQ== I guess Magico S5 2024 will be announced April 2, 2024 and then people can see it in Munich?
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    Help me replace my digital player/vault

    So yeah, if you look at the stereophile review, you can see that feeding Okto DAC8 USB has lower levels of jitter compared to other sources. So I suspect if you upgrade M50.2 to a more modern digital streamer, you probably would get slightly better sound out of the Okto DAC8. But it's really...
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    How would you spend my money?

    Hmmm. That is extremely unusual. Often the reasons for this are in order because 1) you are sitting at a bass null in the room so no amount of speakers or subwoofers would pressurize your sitting position 2) your subwoofer is sitting at a room null for the frequency that you want to pressurize...
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    How would you spend my money?

    2nd sub. But... do you already have microphones and computer hardware to measure to optimize sub integration with your speakers? Because if so, you might get more bang for your buck measuring the system, moving your listening position, speakers and maybe putting selective acoustic treatments...
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    Help me replace my digital player/vault

    For $10,000, you can get a lot of different products that would probably give you more of a sonic upgrade. I'm also a bit unclear on how your system is currently connected based on your bio. Is it M50.2 to miniDSP SHD streamer/Dirac processor to NAD M32 amp? Or is it just M50.2 to M32...
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    S3 MK3 (2023) Arrived

    Sounds like there are some acoustic issues in the room causing a pretty odd frequency response. Most speakers are not designed to give such an up and down frequency response. Other Magico’s I’ve measured at my dealer also don’t give this kind of frequency response (A3, A5, M2). But did you use...
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    Sound levels in your listening space

    Just looking at my September 29, 2023 NY Phil concert Apple Watch dB measurements. Quietest was 50dB, loudest was 100dB briefly. Average was 83dB. I was about 20 rows from the stage.
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    Sound levels in your listening space

    very interesting post. Just got to work so I can’t measure at my loud living room. I have to admit I’m a nitpicker. but I don’t actually know if the radio shack digital meter is calibrated. So the relative dBs you got are correct but the absolute dB might be off. I’ve looked into this before...
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    Does DSP belong in State of the Art Systems?

    Haha. That was embarrassing about the inches to feet conversion. Thanks. Yes. I have the AVAA C214. It works very well but it’s just like a bass trap. So you still need to put it at the right spot. For example, clearly your bass traps at the corner were not absorbing the 40Hz peak adequately...
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    Does DSP belong in State of the Art Systems?

    Hmm… If you’re 390mm from front wall and 435 from back wall, your room is 33” deep not 27”. The 40Hz & 80Hz peaks are room mode resonances from the 33” depth but you’re definitely not sitting at the room mode which is why the peaks are not that high. However, their decay time is still...
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    Does DSP belong in State of the Art Systems?

    Sometimes you have to accept that you can’t always get things to be perfect. The frequency response looks pretty good even without DSP. I’ve seen DSP responses that look worse. To me, the first thing to explore is the waterfall plot (or RT60). That’ll probably give you more ideas of what you...
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    Please recommend some Monoblock Amps

    Bryston 7B3 is a huge leap over the 7B2. Unfortunately, I've never heard the 7B original series before. My understanding is that if you don't like the 7B or 7B2 sound, you still might like the 7B3 sound. But if you don't like the 7B3 sound, you definitely won't like the 7B/7B2 sound. If OP can...
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    Does DSP belong in State of the Art Systems?

    Yes and no because it depends what’s causing the bass null at the seating position. If the problem is that you’re simply sitting at a room node, there is a significant limit to what treatment can do for that bass null. The solution has to be to move the seating position. But if the bass null is...
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