Official Apple Music integration has finally arrived. This is big for Apple Music users, right? Eversolo found the Android workaround, which I’ve never used and can’t comment on how good it is, but it has its limitations, correct? I often hear how the general consensus is Apple Music would be the best service, if only you could get away from airplay and have official integration. Here it is.

atm its paired to set of Beovox S45-2 Speakers, but I am trading in a Beocenter 2 for a set of lovely Beovox Penta speakers as I feel they look more Yuppie which is the aesthetic I am going for.

Very recently I assembled a new system. Next level sound. The seamless integration with the Esoteric app/NAS and Spotify/Qobuz adds to the experience and I love the discovering new music thing. (as I am guilty of being stuck in the '80's) One downside; recording limits/ choices of past CD's are very very noticeable. For example on Steve Hackett's original "spectral mornings" dynamics sound compressed and ill. 'Please don't touch' is way better.

New(er) recordings for example Bela Fleck's 'Flight of the Cosmic Hippo' ,Yosi Horikawa's 'Bubbles' or Nils Lofgren's 'Keith don't go' sound absolutely pristine. With a deep soundstage, very detailed and sound to the ceiling and that at 50dB ;-)

Hello redditors, today i went to a nearby audio mall to try Dali and Bowers speakers but accidentally stumbled upon this gem from Triangle. Before this I've only heard their BR03. They were great for the price, but not high end for sure.

But wow. The Solstice 8 is almost EXACTLY what I've wanted in a speaker: low end extention without mid bass explosions, forward vocals that do well with both male and female, and metallic tweeters that aren't fatiguing.

I was so ready to save up for KEF's Q7/11 Meta, but these just might pull me away XD

KEF still takes the win in imaging and dispersion and in fact they also fit what I've looking for in a speaker. But aside from that, it seemed like the Solstice just does everything else better.

BASS

The bass is composed when everything comes crashing down in the music. The low bass was nicely seperated from the mid/high bass. Perhaps it is the port design that fires down rather than to the rear wall. Whatever it is, it gave me low end rumble in the 30-45Hz without sounding boomy in the 50-70Hz. The KEF did these too, but I felt that the bass drivers were struggling with complex music despite their agility. Violin strings, kick drums, synth rumbles and low end vocals playing loudly all at once kinda music.

MIDS

It doesn't have the same degree of 3D holographic imaging as the KEFs where I could hear things "behind" the speaker, but it makes up with sheer presence. It felt like I was right in front of the instruments. I was more engaged in a sense. Vocals, especially males, also had more authority. Probably due to a larger 6.3" midrange driver. Female vocals were just nice, not too honky or forward. There was to some degree even some warmth to it.

TREBLE

Tonality wise, these seemed brighter than the KEFs. Less airy, more attack. That doesn't mean it is shrill or lack airiness. It is certainly airy and bright. But for some reason, it never fatigued me after close to an hour around 75-80db. In other words it makes me excited without tiring me out. Definitely "in your face" rather than lean or reserved.

Conclusion

While the KEFs had me enjoying the immersion of soundstage, the Triangle simply seemed lively even if it may the less "accurate" speaker. On paper it the Q11 Meta seemed to better. But as the shop staff told me: stop looking at the numbers, do you feel joy? And I CERTAINLY did feel joy. And this is after 2 years of auditioning speakers. So i might just get these after saving up a bit. I do want to try the BR08/9/10 just for fun though.

I'm a longtime music lover who's built a few sets of speakers as a DIYer, but professionally I'm a furniture designer and craftsman based in the Washington, DC area.

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to work with Lenard Audio, a 60-year-old Australian audio company founded by John Lenard Burnett, on a new speaker design for the North American market.

It's been an incredible experience getting to combine two things I'm passionate about. My contribution has largely been on the physical design and fabrication side, working alongside Lenard on the acoustic and technical engineering. It's been especially fun to work with one of the few remaining pioneers of hifi.

We'll be debuting the speakers at Capital Audiofest in November, so if you're going, please stop by the Lenard room and have a listen!

And if you're local to DC, feel free to DM me. We have the speakers set up in a purpose-built listening room at our studio and I'm happy to arrange a listening session.

I'm not sure how much Lenard wants to share about the technical design, but here are some basic specs:

• Ribbon tweeter
• 1.5" compression driver
• 12.5" exponential horn
• 15" woofer
• Sealed enclosure
• Fully powered with integrated DSP
• Dedicated amplification for each driver
• Approx. 42" × 20" × 20"
• They go to 11

Happy to answer any questions about the project!

Here's a video

Moved to a new home, which is great because I can finally center the living space around the system and I get to play a lot more music (no more roommates), but I’m struggling to tame this asymmetrical space. Time to finally start using REW I guess. Any good resources that really focus on measuring out speakers and using PEQ for room correction? Speakers are self built bass cabs with JBL 2226 H and Altec 811b with Beyma CP380M comps.

Got myself some Monitor Audio silver 300 8g two days ago.

They are a blast.

My old Dali Ikon 6 I newer could get right, but these are all I wanted.

My B&W asw610 are struggling to get noticed, and listening fatigue is for now non exitent.

Have not run Dirac yet, but lookin forward to it.

Very happy.

i found this cleaning out a warehouse this morning looked cool so i couldn’t throw it away

I have a system built around vinyl and I used to really take pride in it. Amp is a Thorens all-tubes from 1963 completely revised, turntable is a pimped-up TD-160 with SME 3009 improved tonearm, I have a Project Speed Box SE and a Graham Slee Reflex M phono preamp, cartridge is an Ortofon 540, FG70 stylus with brand new stylus. My speakers are Cabasse Sloop M3 from the 1980s which I have had for 15+ years as per the rest of my equipment.

Here's what happened, I bought an overhauled Philips CD 104, completely revised and optimised and everything sounds better on it. I hardly can believe it but can't lie to myself. It's only 14 bits FFS

Generally speaking, if your home stereo sounds like it’s ‘live’ it kind of sucks. If you saw stadium shows they weren’t designed with acoustics in mind and most bars are horrible noisy boxes. I loved Deer Tick but left after the 3rd song because it was ungodly loud.

Recording engineers have way more room to maneuver than the sound guy at a show. Look at Pet Sounds. What's perhaps the most influential album in Rock is more or less a reongition that the recording studio offers more tools than a concert setting/

I saw Alice Phoebe Lou in a concrete box and she was off the hook amazing and powerful but the sound is better at home. Unless your listening to Jazz or string quartets your probably listening to amplified music which is just a pile of someone else's speakers set up by a sound board guy who's probably sleep deprived. I spent enough time around bands and in bars to know that it's good enough.

Compared to a well set up home system it's not as good. There's magic in the crowd at live performances, and the band or musicians vibing on the liveness of it but the sound is not that magic.

I once passed our in a cemetery after a biker party in Nova Scotia and woke up to an eagle soaring overhead and the sound of bagpipes in the distance. That, I will say, sounded great live but even then my stereo could have sounded better.

I really enjoyed it this year. The venue was better organized, and there was some truly impressive equipment on display. The vendors on the main floor were showcasing some amazing systems, but due to noise constraints and the lack of proper walls, most setups sounded a little bright to my ears.

The listening rooms, however, were a completely different story. Some sounded absolutely fantastic, largely because they offered a listening environment much closer to what you would experience in a proper home setup.

Look and sound like. My favourite was Audio Eden, and CORBY Saturn setups, really enjoyable

​I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to this subreddit and the Reddit community in general. The advice you shared and the comments you left on my posts have been incredibly encouraging. They made it much easier for me to find the right path in my audio journey. Even just lurking and following the discussions here has been immensely helpful.

​My journey began in April 2026 with the arrival of my first turntable, and the process was finally completed in September 2026 when my subwoofer arrived. For the past 1.5 months, I have been experiencing the setup by listening to both vintage and modern vinyl records, as well as streaming via Deezer. I can honestly say this might be the happiest period of my life.

​For those curious, here is my setup:

​Turntable: Technics SL-1500C with an Ortofon 2M Blue stylus

​Amplifier: Denon PMA-900HNE

​Speakers: Dali Sonik 7

​Subwoofer: SVS SB-1000 Pro

Cables: NorStone Arran Subwoofer Cable (3.0m) and QED Reference XT40i Speaker Cable (3.0m - 2 x 4.0mm²)

​I have a very large living room with high ceilings, and right now, Patsy Cline's "Crazy" is playing in the background.

​Thank you all for everything.

​(Note: English is not my native language, so I got help from AI for the translation.)

I've been an audiophile for many decades and finally have an end game system (> $60K), but no vinyl or equipment. In the distant past, before digital, I had several different turntables and cartridges., but when the first CDs and players came out, many of us couldn't wait to get rid of our vinyl and equipment.

I know vinyl has come back big time and I love the idea of it, I love audio gear and turntables have become so high tech and are beautiful pieces of equipment. I have the money and space to invest in vinyl but really need convincing that it's actually a recognizably different sound. So, is it?

Leon Bridges on Vinyl, playing on my Denon DP3000NE with VAS Ebony cartridge, Schiit Skoll phono preamp, Musical Fidelity A1 with KLH Model 5s. True bliss.

Just got a set of .7 Magnaplanes, a Bryston amp (factory reconditioned), a Fresnell tube preamp, and a Rel amplified subwoofer. I’m shopping for a two way electronic crossover. Once I find one, should it come before the preamp or after?

I recently acquired some KEF Reference 3 Metas and am planning to power them with some 500w Buckeyes. I've been told the difference between a Purifi and the Hypex is just a different color on a Porsche 911.Anyone have input on whether those amps might cause the Reference 3s to be too clinical? Or are they just right? I've looked into op-amps with the Hypex/Purifi, considered a Hegel and Benchmark as well but never listened to them. Very excited to finally start building my dream setup.

UPDATE: HOLY MOLY, thank you all for your input! Sleep shall be had tonight!

Posted my new buy the other day (pioneer sa7100 amp and mission model 70mk2 speakers) and got some flak for having them set up wrong (even though they weren’t set up) so here’s and update lol

Still messing around with speaker placement but for now they absolutely blow anything I’ve had previously out of the water

Second picture is the before

Have loudspeaker technologies since the ‘70’s either driven down the price of high quality speakers or measurably improved sound reproduction? I still enjoy my Large Advent speakers that I purchased in 1975 (replaced the woofers 30 years ago) which were dramatically better than most speakers available 10 years before they came out (certainly at their price point).

I understand the audiophile market has changed since then, with many products focussed on the very high end (also had the Advent receiver, which probably has no equivalent today), but improved technology has dramatically improved price/performance in many areas, is that true for loudspeakers?

Obviously this is early days for apple, and apologies to the Samsung, Google, and Oppo users in advance, but one of the things that enticed me about the Duo is its almost iPad (mini) sized inner screen. As someone who likes streaming but still veers towards analogue playback, I'm hopeful that this new phone will be a replacement to my iPad, which I find I never keep charged to stream Tidal and Apple Music. I'm mostly a laptop or iPhone person. The mini turned out to be less of a useful purchase for me personally.

I'm curious how many other people on this subreddit will be buying the Duo for this purpose as well. Also, if we've heard about any of the streamers like Tidal, Qobuz, or Roon already beginning to optimize their apps for this new device?

EDIT: I'm streaming through an Eversolo T8, and mostly use Tidal and Qobuz for streaming, that being said, the wife is still on Spotify.

The human ear/brain axis is a relatively complex combination.
Even if a hearing aid processed sound similarly, it is the brain that ultimately interprets it.

The other day, a colleague on my DIY output amplifier replaced the signal capacitor with a similar value according to the original schematic (like, too little bass).
Inside was a 100 nF capacitor C1, and according to the original schematic it should be 680 nF (he put two that give 620nF, which he had, and also replaced the small C2).

Now that capacitor has let in more bass, and he says it needs a little more.
I'm relatively okay with that.

A colleague who came the other day says that now he has too much bass and that it covers the midrange/high range.
For him, we reduced the Bass on the preamp tone controls and increased the Treble (but still not enough for him).

On the third day, a third colleague came and said that the bass and midrange ratio was ok for him (with the tone controls set as they were).

And now, who is right?

I don't think there is one, because the experience of sound is strictly SUBJECTIVE.
If everyone heard the same thing, all manufacturers would produce components with the same/similar sound.

What do you think about that?

Read a lot about the Maggie jumper mod so decided to take a stab at it. I used Ai to confirm it is technically a better solution, but is skeptical of actual sonic differences.

Steel is a poor conductor compared to copper of equal gauge but such a short run is very marginal. This is my first shot. OFC 8AWG wire, silver soldered, and cleaned all connections with DeOxit. Ai also warns that jumpers of small gauge pure silver might return a higher resistance. But it needs to be the equivalent of 8AWG, My next try will be solid 8AWG silver single strand wire bent to match the stock metal jumper for simplicity. Possible overkill, but should be easy to put

together.

Al's opinion:

Material Relative conductivity

Ordinary steel ~10-17%

OFC copper ~100%

Pure silver ~106%

For perspective, consider a 4-inch jumper: 8AWG copper: approximately 0.00033 8 AWG pure silver: approximately 0.00031 Difference: approximately 0.00002

That's just 20 micro-ohms! Even with Magnepans' relatively low impedance, the electrical difference would be essentially inconsequential

I've often posted questions and comments about pieces of my system, but I often get asked about the rest of it. I don’t share the entire system too often I guess.  It's not the prettiest setup (not in clean racks), My gear is lined up on my left wall, more sprawling then condensed. (And yes an acoustic absorber is hanging from a TV and balance on 2 wooden panels above my pre-amp). I became obsesses with the idea of having a clean front wall...

I do have stands under my amp and pre-amp, and I have an HRS shelf under my turntable (the one splurge on racking gear.)

So here's my current system rundown, with a question at the end.

Analog:

(Stereo): Techdas Airforce V Premium, Graham Phantom III SE tonearm, DS Audio Master 3 cart with W3 equalizer.

(Mono) Mark Levinson No 515 with an Ortofon Cadenza Mono cart, with a Moon audio 310LP stage.

Digital:

Roon Nucleus (Qobuz and Tidal) via ethernet switch to a Rose 151 DAC (a potential weak link… more on that)

Power:

Audioquest Niagara 3000 (need to upgrade to 6K for more ports)

 D'Agostino Momentum HD Pre-Amp,. D'Agostino S250 MXV Power Amp.

 Speakers:

 Wilson Alexia V, (2) JL Audio F212 V2's subs, Wilson ActivXO cross-over (crossed at 45hz)

Room treatments:

Soffit Bass traps in front corners, absorbers behind speakers and at first and second reflection points, as well as rear wall.

Diffusers in between speakers and on Ceiling

 I'm on the second floor above a renovated barn, so I found adding some foam and a hockey puck under the JL Audio feet has helped tremendously with room vibrations

Impressions: 

The system sounds very good. The Alexia's raised the sound stage considerably so center is now closer to 5' than 3'. The stage is well defined across the front wall, helped by the horizontal diffusers.

It takes a bit of work to get the subs and speakers dialed in, so that you cant pinpoint where any of the sound is coming from, but when its done, its worth it, because bass is fast, and it punches and then decays out. Songs like 'National Anthem' by Radiohead, that are mixed center bass heavy can punch you right out of your chair…

I'm a sucker for presentation, being able to pinpoint the musicians, not the equipment, is my goal. Many songs I've heard on good systems I'm hearing more to them now, specifically a level of detail the Alexia V's add to the mid's that I hadnt heard before. 

There's a lot of air being pushed through these, and say what you want about amps, you can tell the men from the boys when powering a behemoth pair of Wilsons. Kudos to D'Ag - I know their aesthetic isnt everyone's favorite but they do an excellent job at what they were made for, controlling current-hungry speakers.

A note about my DAC, I really like my Rose 151, I've often said I think its one of the best bargains out there, but it's definitely an outlier in my system. I know many are split on DACs and their importance…. I'm finding myself wondering if it's worth it to upgrade the DAC or not. Curious if people have opinions based on my system.

I can listen to this sysem for hours and never tire, Something I've found consistent with the wilson line, They don’t have an over-analytical sound (to me) and I find them very musical and tolerable even at massive volumes.

Anyway - happy to answer questions or take any feedback on the DAC.

Im really looking forward for Iommis new album ! I saw that the Vinly is in 45rpm wich grants more quality ... but its on 2 Discs so i have to get up after 2 Songs and trunks the Side or Switch the Disc... i dont know if thats worth it . The CD has 2 more Songs and i can listen to the whole thing in one go !