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My amazing, but 8 year old, Topping VX-1 amplifier with USB digital audio amplifier died a few days ago, so I needed a solution for my office rig. So, I decided to experiment with budget stuff. I'd seen these for awhile on various sites and decided to give it a chance. It is a cheap, Chinese...

I have vivid memories of discussing the failings inherent to music streaming for high fidelity. We ran in circles on data rates, lossy compression codecs, and the bandwidth we could get from our ISPs. Well, until about a year ago if I wanted to sit down in my main listening room for some...

Here's a set of interesting speakers I designed and built a couple of years ago for one of our community members. They are bass reflex loaded with a 6.5" woofer, 1.1" ring radiator tweeter and finished with weather-proof sealants and paint which will hopefully protect them well enough to last...

This week I got the opportunity to listen to a pair of Buchardt S400 bookshelf speakers, which the hip audiophile crowd is going ga-ga over at present. https://www.buchardtaudio.com/shop/s400-white The pair I was able to hear were setup in a nice large performance room in a recording studio...

Well, it finally happened. While I was mildly irritated by people on Social Media posting videos of girl metal bands and calling them "BAD ASS" or "KICK ASS" or "ROCKIN' ASS" or some form of ass being used to mean really rocking their instruments and music, there has been a substantial increase...

The Lickerish Quartet is releasing an EP soon and the initial single is pretty damned good! I cannot wait! They intentionally were trying recapture the style and feel of a band who would have been "influential" about 35 years ago. In an interview I heard on the radio band leader Roger Joseph...

Seriously, even fans will get creeped out:

This presentation does a great job of explaining the loudness war, the issues associated with it, modern concerns, and a new way of making a recording which sounds "loud" while fitting into the new world of streaming. Who would have thought that something as feared as streaming would solve...

https://www.whathifi.com/us/news/psb-speakers-puts-acoustic-isolation-first-in-new-speaker-line From the press release: An alternative to traditional mass and floor spike techniques used to control the connection between speakers and the floor/stand (or other supporting surface) they sit on...

Since I've abandoned surround sound in my own home, I am no longer paying close attention to the technology being released for surround sound. I am lucky to know enough people in my area to get to demo the tech, but I avoid long technical discussions with them since most have no idea what they...

https://www.stereonet.co.uk/news/velodyne-acoustics-revitalised?fbclid=IwAR048v29E75WIOzTGNSXpe9FjgHsu7JmmVG4sfCU5WqLgGnTiPiEKFnwZ5w In their day, Velodyne was an incredibly innovative company who found a way to deliver what was at the time an incredible amount of bass at affordable prices. In...

I was looking for this to send to a friend and couldn't find it. So, I am creating a new thread with the list to reference in the future. feel free to add your favorite loudspeaker auditioning tracks in your replies. I haven't updated this list in a long time, so I am missing out on a ton of...

I built this for a friend and a few bucks over the weekend. Looks great and cost about 1/10th what another neighbor did a month ago on a smaller wall. To cause as little damage as possible to recently painted wall, I mounted 2x2 "studs" on the surface with 6 wood screws each. If this wall...

I've gone on and on about this for a long time on this forum and with anyone will to put up with my rants on the topic, but how we hear frequency response is entirely tied to how loud we are listening. Recently, I've realized that about 2/3rds of the audiophile systems I've auditioned have the...

A friend of my son asked me to build him a set of the Flint Acoustics Lil Jokers coaxial speakers and The Arthur sub but intended for high fidelity indoor use. The original versions of this system were designed for outdoor applications which called for sealed enclosures and a brighter, sharper...

Now TVs will have a standard calibrated mode for watching movies the way the film makers intended: https://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/uhd-alliance/filmmaker-mode/4K/hdr/LG/Vizio/Panasonic/uhd-alliance-announces-filmmaker-mode-for-more-accurate-picture-on-4k-tvs/44731

https://syncopatedtimes.com/acoustically-recorded-78-rpm-discs-make-a-comeback/ Let's just pretend that all the technological advancements we achieved don't make a difference! On the one hand, it is cool to see people experimenting, tssying, and doing interesting things. On the other hand...

This isn't completely new, but when I installed my new top end speakers, the new "Statement" model, I chose to remove all the gear I didn't absolutely require to play audio. I went from a rack of gear to the bare minimum: speakers, amps, crossover/processor, TV, and sources (Fire TV and...

Amongst my activities, including looking for work, getting new funding for my startup, designing for another audio startup, and trying pay my bills, I was commissioned to build a nice set of high-fidelity loudspeakers to be mounted on a screened in porch (protected outdoors). I've been working...

BBC News - Nirvana and Eminem music 'lost in fire' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48599007 While recreations might be possible, these were the original masters approved by the artists when they created these albums. No recreation can exactly duplicate what was originally created.