qSpins: AudioEngine A2 & Edifier S2000 Mk III 2-Way Bookshelf Speakers
Hi everyone, thought I'd just publish a couple of "qSpins" today as I might be away for a little bit to attend to other duties in the next couple weeks.In the last while, I've been looking at getting...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: S.M.S.L. SA300 - Infineon MERUS-based Class D desktop...
"BAS" on screen indicates I'm using the bass-boost EQ here.Today, let's have a look at the little SMSL SA300 desktop amplifier I'm showing above sitting beside the Topping DX3 Pro V2 DAC (previously...
View ArticleOn "Measurements, Listening, and What Matters in Audio" by Robert E. Greene,...
It has been a busy week, so alas, I didn't get a chance to finish some recent measurements in time for the weekend. Will aim for next week!The other day, I read Robert E. Greene's editorial on The...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Fluance Reference XL8S Bookshelf speaker. (Blog post #401 with...
Let's continue with discussions and measurements of bookshelf/desktop speakers. As I expressed a few weeks back, these days I've transitioned to using passive speakers on the computer workstation...
View ArticleMUSINGS: "People, please, you want to grow our industry?" - Comments on...
Make sure to consult this site if you see anyone ever consumer one of these mushrooms BTW... :-)As you can see, I have a picture of George Carlin (from 2008, RIP), known for the quoted comment beside...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Tannoy REVEAL 501a powered monitors
Today, let's have a look and listen to the speakers you see above.These Tannoy REVEAL 501a, though discontinued now and replaced with the newer Tannoy REVEAL 502 released in 2014, have been...
View ArticleAs We Hear It: A High Dynamic Range Christmas Playlist by Allan Folz
A High Dynamic Range Christmas Playlist [Guest Post by Allan Folz] For this Christmas I'd like to share with Archimago and readers the albums that have become a large part of our family's holiday...
View ArticleMUSINGS: Noise, Jitter, Faith & The Autistic Fantasies of Digital Audiophilia...
Happy New Year dear audiophiles!I hope 2021 brings with it many happy returns in the year ahead.Note that this post will be of a rather critical tone... So if on an auspicious New Years Day you want...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: ELAC Debut 2.0 A4.2 Atmos Speakers
Well, with the pandemic of 2020/2021, one thing that has changed markedly in my family is that we're spending way more time watching movies and miniseries at home this past year. In fact the last movie...
View ArticleRETRO-MEASURE: Radio Shack / Realistic / Tandy Minimus 7 speakers (early...
While the "latest and greatest" gear is always nice to check out, read about and measure, over the years, I've also loved the opportunity to examine some of the vintage, "retro" stuff from back in the...
View ArticleCable review: Monoprice Stage Right Series XLR - gold plated connectors,...
Behold... An XLR cable. How exciting. :-)Although I've discussed speaker cables more recently, it has been ages since I've talked about interconnects. Nothing unusual about that - there's really not...
View ArticleREVIEW/MEASUREMENTS: S.M.S.L. M100 Mk II Hi-Res DAC (USB, S/PDIF Toslink and...
[Disclosure: Over the years, I have measured and reviewed products I have either bought or borrowed from friends. The product discussed in this post was sent to me by Aoshida Audio for an honest...
View ArticleRETRO-MEASURE: Spendor SA1 (1976) monitor bookshelf speakers (The foam...
For this week's blog post, let's have a look at another "retro-measure"! This time, I had the opportunity to listen and test out the early-version Spendor SA1 speaker which hails from 1976. Remember...
View ArticleREVIEW / MEASUREMENTS: HiFiBerry DAC2 HD HAT for Raspberry Pi
It has been awhile since I've measured any of the Raspberry Pi DAC HAT boards. In fact, it was back in 2016 that I got the HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro which I still use for basic streaming in the living room...
View ArticleREVIEW / MEASUREMENTS: HiFiBerry DSP Add-On with the DAC2 HD. A quick Roon...
This post is in many ways a continuation of the HiFiBerry DAC2 HD measurements presented last time with the devices sent to me by Doug Gardner for testing. For some background, this DSP Add-on is...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Emotiva Airmotiv B1+ bookshelf speakers. A comment about Andrew...
Emotiva Airmotiv B1+: Comes with small manual, and some stick-on rubber footers in the plastic bag. Fabric covers in background.Since mid-2020, I've been on a quest to find some replacement speakers...
View ArticleRETRO-MEASURE: Pioneer CT-S605 Cassette Recorder/Player (1989). On cassette...
After the usual recent posts on DACs, DSP, speaker measurements, let's discuss something very different this week!The other month, I was cleaning out some stuff from my basement and came across an old...
View ArticleHOW-TO: Partial Frequency Correction with Acourate. Spotify HiFi coming and a...
Over the years, I've discussed the use of DSP room correction in these pages (here and here for the more recent articles). In Acourate, there's no single-step macro to tell the software to limit the...
View ArticleA look IN the Audio Precision APx555 B-Series. Thoughts on price and value in...
From our "RETRO-MEASURE" of a 1980's cassette tape player a couple weeks back, let's make a 180° turn, look at some photos, and chat about "state of the art" performance gear this week! A reader...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS / MUSINGS: Headphone impedance, sensitivity, efficiency, and...
Some people have walls of headphones. Well the other day I thought I'd take out my little collection accumulated over the last few decades around the house, some of them used by the kids, and let's...
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