Having worked through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound, in this next part, I’ll describe the process I followed to integrate the excellent SVS 3000 Micro subwoofers. I’ll wrap up by building FIR filters for use with Roon’s convolution engine. Here’s a link to the start of this series. Polarity It’s…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 4)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. I completed all of the listening position and speaker placement tuning in part 3. Later in his book, Paul touches on room treatments, cables,…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 3)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. In this part, I’ll describe how I set up the grid, performed basic system checks, and got busy with basic tuning. If you’re…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 2)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. Before I get into setting up the grid and describing what I’m learning from the listening tests, I thought you might like to…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 1)
I picked up Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound, plus the companion discs to see what more I could learn about room setup. For most audiophiles, the listening room is the largest and most expensive component in their playback systems, often by an order of magnitude. Even small…
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – Friday, Part 2
The crowds were lighter than I expected on Friday. As a result, I covered more ground than expected, but with each room, my notes and publishing backlog grew. I’m expecting today to be actually busy, so that should give me time to catch up a little. The day was full of surprises, there were a…
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – Friday
I tried to take the best advantage of the two-hour headstart afforded to members of the press on the first day, but despite my best efforts, only visited half of the rooms on my list. The layout is good this year with most exhibits in the tower. The stairwells are unlocked, so one can take…
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – Thursday
Before the Show I’ve been an audiophile for thirty years, but weirdly, this is my first time traveling to Denver for the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. It’s a little intimidating with 400 or so companies displaying products in over 160 exhibits and an expected attendance north of 3,500. It’s impractical to thoroughly explore even half…
Raspberry Pi 3 for Roon Bridge
Roon is an amazing piece of software for organizing your local digital music collection and seamlessly expanding your library via streaming selections from TIDAL. The v1.3 update of Roon has been covered well on many sites so I won’t dig into it here, but DSP and convolution plus third party integrations shift Roon into the…
HOWTO: Streaming TIDAL via JRiver Media Center
I’m so excited! I just have to share…even though chances are slim that you will have any need for a setup like this. Before I get started, let me first explain my situation and why I’m excited. I have large loudspeakers in a small room, so to get the bass under control, my system really needed…