Recent content by beemerphile
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Do Audiophile Network Switches Make a Difference?
Easy. But you have to believe.- beemerphile
- Post #27
- Forum: Sound Science
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1 DAC to 2 Amps
No, per the logic that @groovyd presented, the input impedances of the amps are so high that they do not significantly load the source. Most likely you could remove the input from one amp and not notice a change in output of the other because the input voltages would not change. The...- beemerphile
- Post #15
- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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1 DAC to 2 Amps
Voltages are not divided by loads in parallel - current is. Whether it works well or poorly will depend on the ratio of the resultant input impedance of the two amps to the output impedance of the DAC.- beemerphile
- Post #12
- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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HiFiMan Susvara
Mine were $4,500 new. I would not have paid $6,000 either.- beemerphile
- Post #6,800
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Do Audiophile Network Switches Make a Difference?
The transformers in every ethernet receiver (including cheap ones) prevent this. The only ground loop possibility that I see is if you use shielded ethernet wire instead of UTP.- beemerphile
- Post #12
- Forum: Sound Science
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Do Audiophile Network Switches Make a Difference?
The opinion of anyone who has first-hand experience with it would be suspect for having bought it. So, no.- beemerphile
- Post #3
- Forum: Sound Science
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HiFiMan Susvara
Neat trick indeed. If you find your thinnest card too thick even after using it to buy the Susvaras, These plastic cards from iFixIt are made for the purpose and work well.- beemerphile
- Post #6,455
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
He's was half dead for fifty years before he tried the real thing. "You Want it Darker" was even closer and "Thanks for the Dance" was literally posthumous. Different strokes. The pads were gifted and have a new home where they will be loved (I hope). - Lee- beemerphile
- Post #6,454
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
After some extended listening with the Dekoni's and I am having some reservations that they may indeed be too bass-light. I thought they improved Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris on "If This Is Goodbye" and "Love and Happiness". Then I queued up Leonard Cohen "Live in London" and I think they...- beemerphile
- Post #6,443
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
Less doesn't have to mean insufficient. It is well-controlled. The guy with a sub-woofer in his trunk that rattles the license plate has "more bass" but not better bass. In the couple of Mark Knopfler tunes I was able to listen to before I left, the bass was there and I thought that it was...- beemerphile
- Post #6,413
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
I only had a few minutes with them before I had to leave town for a while. It will take more listening to confirm anything. I can only say at this point that there was nothing to not like. The treble was crisp and clean; the bass was well defined and full; mids are not recessed; the...- beemerphile
- Post #6,406
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
Add me to the Dekoni Elite Fenestrated Sheepskin pad fan club. My condolences to the family of the particular sheep who has some skin in the game, but it was a noble sacrifice. I don't notice them being particularly thicker than the OEM's, maybe a little, but they compress less easily and...- beemerphile
- Post #6,402
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
Heck, I could buy an XP32 for my headphone rig... If I sold my car and put some money with it.- beemerphile
- Post #6,397
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
They are like flowers in a well tended garden. All are pretty - this one for this reason and that one for that. I am at the point in my life (retired old man with declining hearing) where it is time to just pick one and enjoy it. In words attributed to Rabbi H. Schachtel, "happiness is not...- beemerphile
- Post #6,388
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HiFiMan Susvara
I have not. Other than that damned itch that we in the hobby get that there might be Something Better out there, I have no reason to consider a different power amp for the Susvara. I have heard one reviewer say that the XA25 brings "extra heft" that the J2 lacks. These comments were made in...- beemerphile
- Post #6,384
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum