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  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Verum 2 Review and Measurements dasman66 Apr 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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    2. Power Amps

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    3. Speakers

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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: 6AS7 OTL three amp comparison technical measurements atomicbob Mar 17, 2025
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Holo Audio Cyan 2 technical measurements atomicbob Mar 19, 2025
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Holo Cyan 2 + xDuoo TA-66 system distortion surfaces atomicbob Mar 30, 2025
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: The Quest for Quiet Hrodulf Apr 19, 2024
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

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    2. Loaner Programs

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      1. Rules, Payments, and Other

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    3. SBAF Blogs

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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

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    5. Musicians and Instruments

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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

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    3. Bloom Audio

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    4. Schiit

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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: Have Used Headphones, Amps, or DACs you are looking to get rid of? Trade In and Save with The Sourc netforce Oct 22, 2020
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