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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

      Latest: New Members - Introduce Yourself Khanabadosh Feb 27, 2020 at 2:50 AM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread gixxerwimp Feb 24, 2020 at 10:52 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? (2nd Part) robot zombie Feb 27, 2020 at 3:07 AM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: Atlanta Audio Club Annual Headphone Meet - May 3, 2020 jhm3 Feb 24, 2020 at 4:58 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: Questions on the Audibility of High-Q Peaks and Dips in Headphones Lyander Feb 22, 2020 at 1:35 PM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: 403 Errors YMO Feb 14, 2020
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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: ZMF Verite Closed Taverius Feb 26, 2020 at 7:09 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Schiit Asgard 3 Headphone Amp with Continuity Output Stage redrich2000 Feb 27, 2020 at 1:14 AM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: Sony ZX300 Walderstorn Feb 24, 2020 at 12:14 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Tidal Cable Break-in jexby Feb 24, 2020 at 5:48 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. fastfwd Feb 26, 2020 at 11:10 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Roon Discussion M3NTAL Feb 20, 2020
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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: Post your turntable setup...can't get enough of those spinners! Thad E Ginathom Feb 26, 2020 at 1:08 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Schiit Freya + and S Impressions - Stream of Consciousness Samac Jan 31, 2020
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Parasound Halo A23 Stereo Amplifier Review elmoe Feb 20, 2020
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Nearfields for audiophile listening? yunie_ Feb 26, 2020 at 8:19 PM
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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: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Sean Ng Feb 26, 2020 at 11:26 AM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Drop x JVC HA-FDX1 DD IEM: The second coming of ... gixxerwimp Feb 18, 2020
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: ECP Audio T4 technical measurements Hi-Fi-Anatomia Feb 8, 2020
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Matrix Element X Measurements ultrabike Feb 12, 2020
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA1X and SA2X passive attenuator technical measurements zonto Dec 18, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: 711 Coupler - Reference Point? Dr. S Feb 26, 2020 at 5:52 PM
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: European friends listing hallgard Jan 9, 2020
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Grado RS2 with TTVJ Deluxe Flat Pads StageOne Feb 26, 2020 at 11:41 AM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog rlow Feb 26, 2020 at 3:05 PM
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: Cable Building fraggler Feb 26, 2020 at 1:49 PM
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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

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: DAP inventory reduction lcmusiclover Feb 26, 2020 at 10:30 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

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      3. Health

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    2. Outdoor World

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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

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    4. Food and Drink

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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: Show off your musical instruments! daytripper Feb 3, 2020
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) SoupRKnowva Feb 26, 2020 at 7:43 PM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: General Auto Chat Taverius Feb 13, 2020
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Last Call for Eddie Current yotacowboy Feb 26, 2020 at 4:29 PM
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Jul 5, 2019
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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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      Latest: Spotlight on Audeze Bloom Feb 20, 2020
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    4. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog Ice-man Aug 28, 2019
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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: The Source AV Black Friday netforce Nov 29, 2019
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