With all due respect to Matt but the following statement by him breached the forum rules:

"Audiophile fuses are pure madness"

Moderation of any forum isn't effective unless it's consistently applied to old and new members without bias. Effective and timely moderation can defuse situations.

If you read about the Harman methodology it's not time or staff intensive to go from concept to prototype.

Spannko wrote: ↑2022-01-13 10:36 You’re confusing “sound preference” with “musicality”

I'm confusing nothing.

There's a body of science to back up the theory. Read what I wrote - there are carefully worded caveats about musicality.

For me, what you’re both highlighting is just how unmusical practically all modern loudspeakers are To quote Brent Butterworth, "In the case of speakers, measurement methods that have been shown to predict user satisfaction with 86% correlation were established more than 30 years ago. They were dev...

lejonklou wrote: ↑2022-01-02 20:17 I think you missed 'exact order subject to correction', Lego.

I missed that too because the use of parenthesis implies that "exact order subject to correction" applies to the bearing in the sentence used.

I think you missed 'exact order subject to correction', Lego. The main bearing is perhaps the most important part of the LP12 and the plinth is way down on the list. That I am not convinced of Karousel is a different matter entirely. I have installed a bunch of them, tried various torques and liste...

Here’s another couple of woofer clips. Same bass units, but this time filtered at 90Hz instead of 2000Hz. One of the woofers is about 120mm dia, the other about 200mm dia (that’s about 4 1/2” and 8” for our imperial friends) https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B1253qWtHuohvLT That first one is usel...

Thank you Lego! I've already established my preference for preamp first. I did that when I still had a Urika. On your clips I ranked Kairn-Lingo-Linto first, and Kairn-Linto-Lingo last. Accordingly I've swapped my Entity-Radikal for Radikal-Entity. Nice! You're welcome David ,glad to hear it. Unuse...

Here’s another couple of woofer clips. Same bass units, but this time filtered at 90Hz instead of 2000Hz. One of the woofers is about 120mm dia, the other about 200mm dia (that’s about 4 1/2” and 8” for our imperial friends) https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B1253qWtHuohvLT I'd like to hear them ...

Tony Tune-age wrote: ↑2021-12-30 19:28

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 18:33 And after you refurbish your TT, your CD’s might unfortunately be stacked like that in the end as becoming useless for now.

Eventually we'll either donate our CD's to the public library, or give them to somebody...

A few years ago people said that about LP's.

Very stupid to judge by specs instead of listening. 708P is without doubt the best speaker I've heard and I couldn't care less about the technical solutions used when it is obviously very well implemented for musical performance. Couldn't agree more. If you don't trust your ears it's maybe time to ...

I am not sure if my understanding is right but that ST STA350BW is directly functioning as a power amp so there is for the 308 only signal conversion analog into digital and the 350 is some kind of a digital power amp? For the 3 series the Cirrus ADC does analogue to digital conversion, the STA350B...

what I was trying to say is the 708 transfers analog to digital and than digital to analog and than drives the ClassD amp where the 308 transfers analog to digital and than uses a digital amp directly without transferring back to analog before so it seems one conversation less. I know its a theoret...

Defender wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:26 FairPlayMotty not that it is of relevance but of interest do you know which ADC and DAC chips are used with the JBL308?

JBL LSR 308P CS5341 ADC, ST STA350BW Codec
JBL LSR 310S CS5341 ADC, ST STA309A Codec
JBL LSR 708P CS5361 ADC, TI (Burr-Brown) PCM1796 DAC

COOKING' does it for me. But what's most striking is how invisible the influence of the JBL ADC/DAC is. I experienced the same unimpeded clarity with my Rega P9. The engineering by JBL is masterful.

That's better.

Adjusting the volume manually was close to giving me exercise :)

310S passing signal or not should not have anything to do with which connections you are using on the pre-amp. If it works when you are using tape out, it should work when you are using line out unless there is a fault in your pre-amp (the line-outs are completely dead). That was my assumption too ...

It is because bitrate is not high on the list things of things that matter most when it comes to streaming performance. Many "old truths" when it comes to digital music reproduction will prove to be wrong with Källa. For playback bitrate is overrated aside from very low bitrates (around eight) for ...

Why use tape out? That has fixed volume, right? Does that mean that you play the subwoofer on the same level regardless of the volume of the 308P? 3. Preamp line out -> 310S -> 308P is the way I would connect it. I tried your suggestion first and got no signal passing from the 310S to the 308P. I'l...

The JBL LSR 310s arrived as scheduled. I'm experimenting with the configurations. The main options are: 1. preamp (tape out) > 310s > 308P. 2. preamp (tape out) > 310s plus preamp line out >308P. Both options sound very musical. The 310s uses the same ADC chip but a slightly different codec chip (CS...

The Japanese remasters of Rickie Lee Jones have surpassed my expectations. More on the way. They leave the other digital versions looking like amateur day out.

Donald wrote: ↑2021-12-24 17:55 And we can't say it often enough, RAID is not a backup! Please ensure you have a full backup before proceeding!

Too right. I've never got a RAID to completely restore lost data. Thankfully I have several back ups these days including off site.

The accepted "wisdom" in the IT world for NAS drives is to use matching make and model of hard drive. My experience is that's risky. I've experienced a failure of two WD black caviar drives. They were from the same batch and had the same fault. These days my Netgear NAS has drives from two different...

Some people like their speakers naked, some prefer clothed. For me grill(e)s are useful only for cooking :) Back to the JBLs, after watching an interview with the 82 year old Floyd Toole I ordered a JBL LSR 310s. Despite some hearing loss and life's ups and downs Floyd retains a razor sharp mind an...

Hi Tony, can you give some detail on the release/pressing? I would be very interested in adding a decent one to my collection. Ta Hope this is useful... "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane (black vinyl album). Comes with the original gatefold design, remastered from original analog recording by Micha...