Recent content by BowsAndArrows

Well, we've discussed A/B/x testing a few times in the forums... it's not as easy as people think to conduct such tests and to analyse the data without bias and confounding... See the discussion here if you are interested... but that's basically why we recommend extended listening at home (or a...

Of course - vibration, resonance and microphonics have an effect on SQ... I mean a huge part of speaker design is spent on these aspects. And obviously the speakers interact with the room, etc

That's just not true at all.... Please spend some quality time with a few different separates and honestly re-evaluate that judgement of yours...

Almost every contemporary hifi equipment manufacturer disagrees with at least half of those... 🤔🤷‍♂️

Oh boy here come the snake oil salesmen once again!! 😅🤠 FiiO just dropped an affordable linear PS that's compatible with many of their separates. I can't think of many high end audio companies that aren't deep in the power supply cult at this point. Many sat on the fence for ages, but it's...

I think people in this thread are reading into all the media hype a bit too much. 😬 Calm down lads - the chatbots do seem somewhat useful, impressive even - at times... But let's not forget that under the hood they are just models for predicting the next word (or token to be more precise)...

does the hum change at all when you move cables around or touch the chassis of any device in your system? does the hum change in volume when you change the volume or is it constant - even at 0 and when no music is playing??? i would also try disconnecting one cable at a time and see if that...

i feel like a sub is almost always a positive addition to a system. so i agree with others for the most part who are recommending a sub in general... i'm not yet at @CptKaos level. but i do miss my sub if i turn it off. in my main system - i actually use my sub as bass management as the signal...

one: Qobuz. because of no distractions in the app, exclusively human-curated playlists, and now the convenience and rock-solid stability of qobuz connect... ofc the hi-res too! had tidal for ages, and i DO kinda miss the music video feature sometimes... but it's not a big deal. switched to...

no harm in trying the analogue RCA connection. @harkpabst is right that there would be "unnecessary" A>D conversion in the active speakers, but there's no harm in trying it if you are clearly disappointed with the sound. the issue with active speakers is that they rely on their DSP tuning that...

i doubt they are gonna make an ARM version of the windows app tbh. i had honestly thought that they had abandoned/shelved development of the desktop apps entirely since it doesn't seem like a priority for the team... but they actually seem to be working on it slowly but consistently, so you...

you mean arm on windows? can't you run the android app using bluestacks or something similar?? 🤔

of note i am having some scaling issues in linux which i fixed by changing the "screen resolution" dpi setting in wine graphic settings (from 90 dpi to approx 220)...and i also used winetricks fontsmooth=rgb to fix the kind of jagged text rendering... no other major issues apart from that it's...

Just wanted to update the community about decent progress that has been made on the windows beta of the WHA. 👌🔥 A lot of functionality has been added - we can now browse our qobuz libraries and radio paradise from within the app and it actually works quite well... the presets also show up and...

also, there's no reason to get overly tribal in here and let things upset you personally. if some of us are ignorant fools, then so what? log off the internet, relax, and revel in your own superiority... :LOL: let's try find common ground and share experiences.