1/18/2024 0 Comments Audioquest nightowl specs![]() This is a complex issue we all have our unique experience and references for defining excellent playback. AudioQuest driver design – from their site I am, for a couple of reasons, willing to trade a small measure of that world-class performance for other things. Yes, they are fast, and they deliver scale, low distortion, and power in ways most dynamic headphones cannot. WHIle my experience with planar headphones (I had the Audeze LCD-XC for a time) is limited, it left me wanting. I’ve not heard the Meze Empyrean ($2999) yet, for example, but it has received several glowing reviews. The latest luxury products are primarily high-priced planar magnetic and electrostatic designs with which the builders have driven measured performance to Olympian levels (Focal’s headphones are one exception). The current mainstream trends in headphones lean more toward HiFi, or what I might describe as hyper-real playback. One point I’d like to make here is that even those dedicated to two-channel playback and maybe a less modern hifi sound can find satisfaction in personal audio. With headphones, we lose the scale, full body immersion, and some social aspects, and in turn, get a more direct and intimate sound that removes the influence of a listening room. That said, I have spent ever more time with headphones in recent years, and now with my reference system, find the trade-primarily, a much smaller listening space-to be an equitable one. The pendulum swings… The Verve 1995 stereo reissue – found it at StinkweedsĪs time passed I came to prefer two-channel over headphones for its scale and power, and still do. Today, we know many who continue pursuing (I’d like to experiment with a mono cartridge, well, because I want to know, and information isn’t knowledge.) mono playback, and with verve. Mono was benched to make room for stereo years before I was born, and, I suspect (hoping, actually) there has been a Loyal Order of the Monophonic since the industry made the switch. Of course, music (making it or playing it back) is not a sport. I went mono before it was cool, uh, again. I can’t recall the exact model, but this looks like it… My first loudspeaker was not two channel, but instead a single speaker in a small red briefcase, with the 8-track slot on the side and a microphone. I was most likely listening to the Star Wars soundtrack. I recall sitting on one end of our couch in the living room with some big 70’s headphones on, leashed (with the coiled cable) to an 8-track player like a tetherball (skinny kid/big head) to a pole. Two channel systems with loudspeakers, or “stereos” as my childhood friends and I called them, and headphones have always run together, side by side-my earliest memories of listening to playback include both. Hi-Res FLAC Coming To Tidal HiFi Plus in AugustĪlbum of the Week: Arthur Russell | Picture of Bunny Rabbit In Barn for Review: YG Acoustics Summit Loudspeakers Review: A Cambridge Edge Stack: Edge NQ Preamp/Network Player & Edge M Monoblock Power Amplifiersĭarko.Audio Podcast #47 (Uncensored): Rick Rubin, Dolby Atmos & Audiophile Red Flags In Barn for Review: Zu Audio Definition 6 Loudspeakersįurther Thoughts on Dolby Atmos: By the numbersĪlbum of the Week: Modern Cosmology | What Will You Grow Now? How Much Is Too Much to Spend on Speakers? SME M2 Series Tonearms Now Available in the US and Canada ![]() The Brand New Schiit Urd: CD Transport Meets USB Hub with a Twist (for less than you might expect) Review: Vivid Audio Kaya K45 Loudspeakers ![]() Album of the Week: ANOHNI and the Johnsons | My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross ![]()
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