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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

      2. Ambiophonics

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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

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    3. Music and Recordings

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

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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: So-Cal Meet and Chill this Sat October 1st from 12-6pm netforce Oct 4, 2022 at 12:49 PM
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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

      Latest: A/B test Garns Aug 31, 2022
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: 403 Errors shotgunshane Sep 17, 2022
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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: The Mighty Utopia: Focal Utopia Revisted GuySmiley'sMonkey Oct 5, 2022 at 4:04 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Schiit Lyr+ Review (or random thoughts about it) purr1n Oct 6, 2022 at 9:55 AM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

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      Latest: Headphone Cables denny_dow Oct 3, 2022 at 12:26 AM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop. caute Oct 6, 2022 at 9:31 AM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Roon Discussion Tom R Sep 30, 2022 at 10:02 AM
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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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      Latest: Humminguru - The budget ultrasonic with the funny name yotacowboy Oct 5, 2022 at 4:16 PM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Schiit Freya + and S Impressions - Stream of Consciousness monacelli Aug 29, 2022
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Chi-fi superstar - Aiyima T9 integrated amp k4rstar Oct 5, 2022 at 4:17 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Bookshelf / standmount speaker impressions GuySmiley'sMonkey Oct 6, 2022 at 2:37 AM
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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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      Latest: Dan Clark Audio Stealth Measurements and Thoughts SoupRKnowva Sep 27, 2022
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Massdrop Plus IEM M3NTAL Sep 7, 2022
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: NITSCH x Schiit Magni Piety Technical Measurements atomicbob Oct 4, 2022 at 7:09 PM
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: schiit yggdrasil LIM technical measurements atomicbob Oct 4, 2022 at 11:50 AM
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Tube warm up time technical measurements gixxerwimp Mar 9, 2022
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: Tutorial - Amplifier Distortion vs Amplitude - A Visual Guide atomicbob May 15, 2022
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

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    1. EU Forum

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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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    4. DIY

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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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    6. Photography and Cameras

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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: Hyundai Veloster N Car Stereo Misadventures Kernel Kurtz Oct 5, 2022 at 8:41 PM
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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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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