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"Audiophile fuses are pure madness"
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- 2023-09-21 22:06
- Forum: Lejonklou
- Topic: Forum issues are discussed here
- Replies: 372
- Views: 502189
- 2022-01-13 15:44
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
If you read about the Harman methodology it's not time or staff intensive to go from concept to prototype.
- 2022-01-13 14:49
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
- 2022-01-13 12:02
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2022-01-02 22:09
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: LP12 Building Advice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37984
- 2022-01-02 20:58
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: LP12 Building Advice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37984
Re: LP12 Building Advice
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...
- 2022-01-01 00:52
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7085
- Views: 5153614
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
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...
- 2021-12-31 22:05
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7085
- Views: 5153614
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
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...
- 2021-12-31 22:04
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7085
- Views: 5153614
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
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 ...
- 2021-12-31 02:19
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Tony Tune-age System
- Replies: 514
- Views: 1147039
Re: Tony Tune-age System
A few years ago people said that about LP's.Tony Tune-age wrote: ↑2021-12-30 19:28Eventually we'll either donate our CD's to the public library, or give them to somebody...
- 2021-12-29 21:50
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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 ...
- 2021-12-29 21:24
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2021-12-29 21:09
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2021-12-29 19:37
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
- 2021-12-29 11:11
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7085
- Views: 5153614
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
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.
- 2021-12-27 17:48
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
That's better.
Adjusting the volume manually was close to giving me exercise :)
Adjusting the volume manually was close to giving me exercise :)
- 2021-12-27 17:26
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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 ...
- 2021-12-27 17:22
- Forum: Källa
- Topic: Recommended control points
- Replies: 230
- Views: 147797
Re: Recommended control points
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 ...
- 2021-12-27 17:06
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2021-12-27 16:57
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2021-12-24 20:43
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Latest records to enter your collection
- Replies: 464
- Views: 252353
Re: Latest records to enter your collection
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.
- 2021-12-24 20:38
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: NAS Hard Drive 'problems' (maybe)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
- 2021-12-24 00:24
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: NAS Hard Drive 'problems' (maybe)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
Re: NAS Hard Drive 'problems' (maybe)
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...
- 2021-12-22 09:58
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: JBL 308P and 708P
- Replies: 789
- Views: 397501
Re: JBL 308P and 708P
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...
- 2021-12-20 21:32
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Latest records to enter your collection
- Replies: 464
- Views: 252353
Re: Latest records to enter your collection
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...