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[gus6464]

$1k for speakers is really not bad and it's how much my SVS MBS-01 cost but now I am more into headphones as I prefer the more bang for the buck since I am the only one in the house that uses them anyway.

 

[Number1]

No, you are misinformed. Fiber optic lines still suffer from noise and jitter. It's a well known fact and is old. The problem is dispersed light does get through the cable, but only after it has taken a longer path, causing the data to arrive later. All these imperfections and impurities in the fiber are found in $4 fiber optic cables...and all this delayed timing affects audio. It doesn't only apply to analog cables but digital cables including FIBER OPTIC. Since you use everything cheap stuff (cables) you wouldn't have known what details and dynamics you have been missing all this time. You know some of your own gears but seem to be way behind on other things that are easily overlooked.

BTW, thanks for your useless recommendation on that cheap arse audio receiver and passive speakers which I have absolutely no use for. I wasn't asking for what to get. This thread is for posting my impression on the Benchmark DAC product.


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You were talking about electrical interference in the outer plastic layer of optical cables, LOL. Now you bring up jitter and noise, stuff you probably read about on wiki. As for my recommendations, it was just a quick search on the internet to see what could be obtained with the kind of money you spent and what I found blows away anything you're using.

the $1200 you spent on a friking cable could have purchased a decent high quality amplifier. That to me is the definition of insanity.

 

[Anubis]

What a monumental waste of time and money.

Let see
Focal speakers $1000
Dumb audio cable $1200
DA converter $1200.

Total $3400 +

Let see what can be obtained with this kind of cash.

ONKYO TX-NR818 7.2-Channel Network A/V Receiver – Black $1200

Definitive Technology SuperCube 6000 1500W High-Performance Powered Subwoofer Each $1000

Polk Audio RTi A9 $750 each

TBH the supercube really is not that good for what it costs, the reference version which costs like 2k is a total waste of money

 

[sdifox]

TBH the supercube really is not that good for what it costs, the reference version which costs like 2k is a total waste of money

never understood the fascination with trying to make a sub as small as possible... It just doesn't work.

 

[Plugers]

TBH the supercube really is not that good for what it costs, the reference version which costs like 2k is a total waste of money

For real, I just picked up an EP2500, and I'm going to order 4 Fi IB318s after the new years, so for $1.1k it will decimate either of those 2 above subs.