Apologies...just catching up on the thread.
As a reference point, I can't explain this at all, but for some reason my Zu Druid 6s seemed to crave higher power amps than what the numbers suggested they might otherwise. I think those had the same drivers as your Defs...just one less full range...
He's using Room Eq Wizard (REW) for making the measurements/curves, then it gets loaded to a MiniDSP device which sits between the pre-amp out and woofer amp inputs. In fact, I just remembered that in my first speakers from him (with traditional woofers), he used a MiniDSP device that had an...
I haven't but I think they look interesting, and I would like to hear some. They don't appear to be using field coils, perhaps to stay at some particular price points (I know Voxativ makes some pretty serious field coils, and that seems to be the full-range maker they are using).
I was skeptical about the dsp at first, too, until i heard it and played around w/ it for a while. First and foremost it's just a basic digital crossover for the woofers. You don't have to use the room correction, but I think it helped tighten things up from there with the correction. Rich...
I am still a huge fan of my little Soul Supremes and happy to report that I have them back after loaning them to a friend, running as a little bedroom system and performing marvelously with a PX4 SET amp. I have yet to hear any Definitions but would still love to...I have no doubt the new ones...
Yeah, I actually own 2.5 pairs (2 stereo pairs and 1 mono!) from Treehaus now. In full disclosure, I have worked with Rich and Treehaus so long now in his designing, building, and delivering the speakers, amps and pre-amps he's built for me...I definitely consider him a friend at this point...
How much improvement one gets is going to be dependent on so many different factors it's almost not worth trying to discuss it, unfortunately, as there's isn't a universal result we could agree to. I do find the different data points from individuals very useful as a direction (including the...
I very much agree w/ your way of thinking here--especially at the relative price levels you're suggesting. But I might make the additional comment that overspending on the server relative to the DAC could be a miss at higher price points. You might make the same argument with the opposite...
I haven't made the jump to the newest Antipodes servers yet (EX/CX currently, but looking forward to doing so based on the feedback here and elsewhere), but for those of you with the top Antipodes servers, I would strongly suggest you experiment with top external clocks, network switches...
Great points all around. You are very clearly in the position to get the absolute most out of the medium, which is awesome and enviable from my end.
You are absolutely right that digital, too, has all the media limitations you spelled out.
In spite of this, I somewhat mentally tried to move...
I'll be even more clear in my response in hopes of ensuring no one thinks I posted some loaded BS question because I was paid by someone with a financial interest in a piece of gear. It's such a stupid supposition I can't even believe I'm justifying it with a second response let alone a first...
Not sure how to respond to that accusation other than simply to state that in my case you're dead wrong. This is/was a legitimate question from me and I have nothing to do with those names or other posts you're referencing.
On a personal level I find ASR to largely be a joke, mostly with folks...
I am very late to this thread and chime in only to offer a side opinion of someone who has been climbing the DAC ladder for a while and made many bad and a few good investments, so I feel I can offer both opinions fairly objectively. I haven't counted recently but I have owned at least 10...
If the first comment was to me, it's a fair one. My interest in tape is a couple-fold. First, I've had a number of folks that say they feel when well-done, it's often even better than vinyl, and of course there are the folks that also feel vinyl sounds better, on average, than digital. I...
I totally get your points. As a younger me I shot a lot of 6x6 medium format and a bit of 4x5 and even 8x10 black and white film, and printed in my own darkroom for a decade or so. I was a fairly early adopter of digital photography for convenience, but loved the process of the film and the...