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Publication of virtual events of various prominent leaders in the HiFi community coordinated by the Audiophile Foundation AKA San Francisco Audiophile Foundation
Audiophile Foundation Zoom Event with Jason Stoddard of Schiit Audio
Jason Stoddart answers participants questions about Schiit Audio and its products.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:47 Company Background
05:59 Product Design Considerations
08:30 Mike Moffat's Role
10:39 Product Price Considerations
13:17 On Manufacturing in the USA
15:57 Turntables
17:35 CD Player
19:07 Is USB the Best Digital Interface?
20:34 Company Move
22:33 New Products
26:13 A Better Yggy?
29:21 DAC Technology
33:09 Can the CD Transport Rip CDs?
33:34 What's wrong with TOSlink?
34:14 Thoughts on Ethernet
36:02 On Surround Sound
38:01 Jason's Gear and Music Preferences
39:48 Attracting a Younger Audience
43:48 Vinyl and Phono Stages
45:40 On Power Supplies
47:09 Nordic Product Names
48:29 Loudspeakers?
50:42 USB vs SPDIF - Clocking
52:35 Life Before Schiit
57:11 On Science Fiction
59:12 AI and the Future
1:01:46 Do You Feel Space X Launches?
1:02:55 Do you ever visit the Bay Area?
1:03:13 On Audio Shows
1:05:35 Women and Audio
1:06:48 Headphone Amp Power
1:07:37 Marketing to Women
1:09:49 Future DAC Improvements
1:16:13 Revisit Marketing to Women
1:22:48 Wrap-up
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:47 Company Background
05:59 Product Design Considerations
08:30 Mike Moffat's Role
10:39 Product Price Considerations
13:17 On Manufacturing in the USA
15:57 Turntables
17:35 CD Player
19:07 Is USB the Best Digital Interface?
20:34 Company Move
22:33 New Products
26:13 A Better Yggy?
29:21 DAC Technology
33:09 Can the CD Transport Rip CDs?
33:34 What's wrong with TOSlink?
34:14 Thoughts on Ethernet
36:02 On Surround Sound
38:01 Jason's Gear and Music Preferences
39:48 Attracting a Younger Audience
43:48 Vinyl and Phono Stages
45:40 On Power Supplies
47:09 Nordic Product Names
48:29 Loudspeakers?
50:42 USB vs SPDIF - Clocking
52:35 Life Before Schiit
57:11 On Science Fiction
59:12 AI and the Future
1:01:46 Do You Feel Space X Launches?
1:02:55 Do you ever visit the Bay Area?
1:03:13 On Audio Shows
1:05:35 Women and Audio
1:06:48 Headphone Amp Power
1:07:37 Marketing to Women
1:09:49 Future DAC Improvements
1:16:13 Revisit Marketing to Women
1:22:48 Wrap-up
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Your Favorite HiFi Tweaks Virtual Event
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Participants share and discuss their favorite hifi tweaks. 00:00 Intro 03:20 Origin Live Gravity One Record Weight 08:51 Vibration Isolation 15:08 HighEnd Novum PMR Premium 20:29 Budget Turntable Vibration Isolation 24:32 Inexpensive Resonator 27:54 First Watt F7 Amplifier 28:50 Granite Speaker Platforms 31:44 Acoustic Traps 35:49 Spikes 43:40 Ferrites for Power Cables 44:31 Contact Cleaners 50...
MSB discusses the technology behind their flagship Cascade DAC
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At a recent event hosted by Audio Video Integration in San Rafael, CA, MSB Technology's team, led by co-founders Daniel and Jonathan Gullman and Sales Manager Vince Galbo, shared design principles that allowed MSB to achieve "the lowest noise we ever made in a product." Attendees learned about the exceptional engineering behind MSB's Cascade DAC as the MSB team discussed topics ranging from Up-...
Audiophile Foundation Discussion on Buying and Selling Used HiFi Gear
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Some ideas and experience regarding buying and selling used HiFi gear. © 2020 Audiophile Foundation. All rights reserved.
Audiophile Foundation Presents Cookie Marenco 2024
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Cookie Marenco discusses the six degrees of degradation of audio production © 2020 Audiophile Foundation. All rights reserved.
Audiophile Foundation Website Review
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With the rebranding effort of the Audiophile Foundation, we have made some changes to our website. This video provides an overview of the website capabilities and changes made to make the site easier to navigate. ©Audiophile Foundation. All rights reserved.
The Audiophile Foundation Presents Leo Ayzenshtat of Orchard Audio
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Leo discusses his design philosophies for his GaN FET amplifiers and his PecanPi DAC for an interesting and educational presentation. © 2020 San Francisco Audiophile Society. All rights reserved.
SFAF Presents John Hunter of REL
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John Hunter of REL Subwoofers talks about subwoofer design, placement and how a subwoofer can improve the sound quality of a two channel HiFi system. © 2020 San Francisco Audiophile Foundation. All rights reserved.
The Audiophile Foundation presents Norm Varney of A V Room Service
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David Janszen Discusses His Electrostatic Speaker Design
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SFAF Presents John DeVore
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David Berning ZOTL LTA
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SFAF Presents Andrew Jones talks about his move to MoFI and designing speakers. © 2020 San Francisco Audiophile Society. All rights reserved.
SFAF Presents An Inside View Into John Curl’s Laboratory Trim
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John talks about the equipment he uses to measure amplifiers, sources of distortion, different types of distortion, FETs and more! © 2020 San Francisco Audiophile Society. All rights reserved.
SFAF Presents a Special Conversation with Michael Fremer
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Michael talks about his new position with The Absolute Sound, The Tracking Angle UA-cam Channel, records, pressing plants and factory tours, among other topics. © 2020 San Francisco Audiophile Society. All rights reserved.
San Francisco Audiophile Society Presents Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere Music Systems
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San Francisco Audiophile Society Presents Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere Music Systems
SFAS Vinyl Discussion Forum with Special Guest J.R. Boisclair
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SFAS Vinyl Discussion Forum with Special Guest J.R. Boisclair
San Francisco Audiophile Society Linkwitz LX521 Speaker Event
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San Francisco Audiophile Society Linkwitz LX521 Speaker Event
SFAS Vinyl Discussion Forum, October, 21, 2021
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SFAS Vinyl Discussion Forum, October, 21, 2021
SFAS Presents Frank Doris, Editor of Copper Magazine
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SFAS Presents Frank Doris, Editor of Copper Magazine
George and Carolyn Counnas of Zesto Audio
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George and Carolyn Counnas of Zesto Audio
David Gans interviews John Curl: The Audiophile Sound of the Grateful Dead
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David Gans interviews John Curl: The Audiophile Sound of the Grateful Dead
AudioKinesis Subwoofers with Duke LeJeune and James Romeyn
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AudioKinesis Subwoofers with Duke LeJeune and James Romeyn
SFAS Digital Audio Focus Group #4: Roon 1.8!
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SFAS Digital Audio Focus Group #4: Roon 1.8!
My sister has hifi audio gear, but only because I gave it to her. Now she can't listen to anything else without comparing it to her own. My brother is the same way. Even though he's really in to music, being a musician, he never had hifi gear until i gave it to him. I would say most people don't have hifi equipment because they don't know about it. Also, for the average joe-schmo, needing to buy an amp and dac, along with headphones with cords attached to them, is not convenient. It's a matter of convincing people that quality is more important than convenience.
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Everything devolves into DEI Jason strikes me as a left of center fellow but his simple answer ROI Women getting into Hi Fi will only work if it is organic I am old and the cigarette industry got pretty good at marketing women’s cigarettes but only because the ladies liked to smoke too Love the stereotype idea from the ladies to make the Schiit components pretty in pink and colorful Every single component I own is black and the more industrial the better Fortunately we all have choices
Fantastic interview!
Great vid and company philosophy.
I admire companies like Schiit that create great gear that is truly affordable (cutting out the ridiculous distributors’ and retailers’ margins). Kudos 🫡
I love Tweaks thank you for the video
To bad about the name. The mono amps would be great but just don't want that name in my rig. Think it has only been the first time not wanting to buy a product because of the name. All the best and keep building excellent products and great prices - we need more of these options.
To Two Too Three, different words.
@@n.lyndley.9889 Understandable, but the name is only in small print on the back plate so you tell give your guests any "S" logo euphemism you like. The "S" logo is pleasingly tasteful.
Interestingly enough, I took a look at my own Schiit gear--a Hel, a Hel 2e, and a Syn--and the company name appears on none of them. It's just the logo and the product name.
The whole thing about women is insane. Stop trying to make a woman like your hobby. The women that do like your hobby, like your hobby. Do you think Schiit or whomever should be advertising in Elle Magazine, the Lifetime channel, and The View to lure in the women? I'm a ham radio operator and all we've talked about for the past 15 years or more was how to get women interested. Well, the ones that do like ham radio, like it. Every effort they've ever afforded fell flat on its face. The percentage of licensed ham radio operators who are female has stayed pretty constant through the years. Guys just like and want women to like their hobbies. The whole ham radio paradigm and HiFi paradigm are very close in perspective. My wife likes to drink wine and listen to music on the couch with me, but she could care less about the music or gear; she's spending time with me. Men and women are wired differently and that is just fine. Occasionally a woman likes HiFi and occasionally a guy likes crotchet!
It almost took me longer to read this comment than they spent talking about the subject in question. Like Leslie said, if Schiit can figure out the marketing, there's a huge untapped market. Hifi doesn't have to be gendered. Everybody has ears.
@@grimani Sorry for the long comment, but it's a conversation people like to bring up a lot with Jason and others in the business and the answers are usually awkward out of necessity.
+1 for Syn. It's a great piece of kit
Also a Syn here, happy with it. No more complains or help actions wanted. Only "thing" i had was that when unit was cold the left selector did not switch. but after some time i found out when it always on it is good.
Maybe take a step back and stop putting focus on what a review thinks.
Love the story about building drag racing engines and playing Bach. A man after my own heart! Awesome!
Treat the listener not the room . When room treatments are not an option because you LIVE in one room then learn to treat the listener . rooms have finite potential , but levels of consciousness have no limitations . learn how to increase sensitivity , joy and appreciation and ones external circumstance becomes irrelevant . The listener has infinite potential , a room does not.
Curl still designs amps. HIs designs for Parasound are top notch and very popular.
Everyone interested in cables needs to take the time to watch this - it pulls together cable knowledge really well. Thanks Galen.
Just getting into the cable rabbit hole 🕳️…..oh boy!
Uh Uh Uh ... Did you Did you Uh Uh
wonderful set of speakers. i only wish the upper part is shorter... much shorter. why does it have to be so tall ??!. if they position the min range and the tweeter lower?. . it will be half as tall.
I have a sx 1050 I csn drive a lot of dofferent speakers with this old reciever
In my opinion speakers and preamp most important and an amplifier that sounds effortless
I only have vintage gear I just think it looks like quality and has a really good sound in my opinion
I design my own speakers and I have a multiple layer cabinet system that I came up with and I don't know anyone who does anything like mine. The out layer I have been using solid oak and maple. The crossovers are high end components and crossover are all top notch. Big companies can't make a speaker like the way I do because it's not practical. But I spend a fraction of the price as buying a big name speaker made in China
I have heard the Merrill class D amps, they sound very good, solid performance.
Steve taking a dump on Apple headphones is right on.
Video is abruptly cut off at the end. Is there a second part ?
Omg guys. Laugh at his jokes. Andrew is a lovely funny guy, with a great sense of humor.
The Dead really screwed me with the Wall Of Sound and I'm sure thousands of others......I saw and heard that thing and t was wayyyyyyyyyy more than a simple PA. It was a genuine phenomena. The thing was an instrument in itself and seemed to have a life of it's own.......Incredibly coherent and terrifying in scope at times.........I think they played for around 6 hours and it was epic. And they didn't publicize it so it was a shock to walk in the ballroom and see something like that............Still the best concert sound I've ever heard... So I jabbered about it to anyone that would listen because the Dead were still sort of an underground niche thing..........They disappeared for a couple years and then returned......I told everyone I knew and took my whole band to see them. They had a borrowed PA from Bill Graham, the sound was lackadaisical and they were playing that slowed down "poky-poky" shit that they got famous for later and it was just a lame show.................I felt like a fool and everyone was like "THIS is what you've been raving about??????!!!!" It was really embarassing and every show I bothered to go to after that just didn't have the fire, passion and otherworldly quality of the Wall Of Sound and I finally lost interest...... I think they screwed up BIGTIME mothballing that system...........It's just a legend now most people never got to hear.. You probably know Bear left them after a roadie threw him into a water cooler backstage.....He said while he was in the joint their scene changed and they had all these beer drinking , coke snorting cowboy types that tended to be aggressive at times.. And I agree with John Curl on Live/Dead............THAT is a genuine masterwork , fantastic improvisation, textures and invocations..........and beautiful relic of the Psychedelic era that is as much of an arcane text as anything these days,,,,,
Dead & Co are playing in The Sphere with 167,000 speakers which is about 10 drivers per person. The sound quality is incredible. It's like a more modern wall of sound.
Can [listening] multi-tasking include a nap? Best, D.
Steve hit it on the nose, 10/10 when he said, "The review is only valuable when the viewer develops his relationship with the reviewer over time," so beutifully and simply said!!! That is, after listening to Steve's, Sean, Thabarma, Ron, John, Andrew, Thomas' Review, and you go out and buy those reviewed products and then gauge it for yourself. And if their descriptions matches what you've experienced, then the product review is valuable. And over time THAT REVIEWER is trusted and valued. That's absolutely true for me, and I believe also for many audiophiles. For me, in terms of hierarchy, top of my trustworthy and accurate list of reviewers is Sean, Steve, Thabarma, Thomas, Andrew and John. And it's a "relationship" we've develop over time. I value John's knowledge, but his products are usually out of my budget. Same can be said for Thomas, some of his products are in the Gate's, Buffet's and Bezo's level (exaggerated)! Steve's reviews are fresh, wide-ranging. Sean's is more focused and clear, so it really helps me to buy--or not.
Joule Electra made OTLS superior in sound quality. So sad the designer passed away not many know about him. Like Tesla, he was the true genius but Bell gets more recognition Jud Barber was the same Ralph gets more recognition but having owned both My Joule Electra Grand Marquis 160 mono OTL sounds better than my MA1. Really wish Jud was still around his amps just had that little bit more of humanity if you know what I mean that came through his amps. I baby mine because I know how special they are!! They still look new and have all their silk screening in place. I get frustrated when his name is not mentioned when people talk about OTLs the people who have heard them will tell you the same he made the best OTLs bar none. Ralph would probably even admit this lol.
The lady in green looks like the mono Lisa picture behind her
Wow, as a software engineer who’s interested in great audio, this was an absolutely fantastic interview. I love the passion and knowledge that Ralph shared here. Thank you for doing this.
Hi Steve, I know you think your pedestal is rock solid! I am truly sorry to be English, and the bearer of bad news! Audiophile literally means LOVER OF SOUND. Who is not?
Great guest!
Great talk - thank you! It’s really difficult to choose amplifiers because there aren’t close by (for me) stores to audition them.
Great talk - the poor audio quality of the presentation is ironic as the topic is audio quality. Please find a way to have high quality audio. This sounds like a 1960s transmission from an astronaut in outer space. It’s tedious listening because of the terrible audio quality.
Fantastic! Thank you for posting. Long form is the best for these topics.
Great talk on stylus set-up. I learned a lot. I use a mono conical stylus and a mild elliptical stereo stylus. My logic is that these shapes allow me to enjoy and safely play my recordings without being hyper careful about set up. If I were using fine line stylus shapes I would certainly take the time to “dial it in” correctly. An improperly set up fine line stylus could damage records.
Great talk - on the topic of utility power - In addition to the steps Michael discusses at 2:00; consider asking the power company to replace your old pole transformer (if you have one). Our utility company was happy to change our 25 year old service transformer for a new one at no cost to us. Also - if you have a home backup generator; your transfer switch may buzz and introduce noise into your power as it uses an electromagnetic switch system. Our Koehler transfer switch occasionally buzzes. I switch the whole house power on and off to exercise it and the buzz goes away.
50% of the US population has only 1% of the National wealth. With the loss of a middle class, audio will be for the rich. Wealth isn’t distributed relatively evenly across the US population as it was in the 1960s and 70s. Today’s manufacturers will target the wealthy with high priced products as that’s where the money is. The average American can swing an iPhone on an installment plan and that’s about it. It’s all about where the money is and isn’t.
Pirate ship is still how it is
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I really enjoyed sitting to to such an enlightening discussion. I am going over to direct grace records and checking it out, if only just to donate.
I've tried or heard everything, over many years, and nothing worked anywhere near as well as the DBA built a couple years ago based on Duke's Swarm. Somewhat better 10" drivers, same Dayton SA1000 amps. Placement could hardly be easier. Just like Duke said, place them different distances from corners. Setting levels could hardly be easier. Very small adjustments are subjectively larger than they seem, and this varies with volume. So after getting it very close almost right away it then took about a month of tweaking level a tiny bit one way, then another, until finally settling and now haven't felt the need to touch it in like 2 years. The beauty of this is the quality of subs is far less a factor and so just about any four subs will get you far better bass than any amount of money spent on just one or two. Everyone I know who has this raves about it. We all say the exact same things. Only those who haven't tried it stick with the same old approach that simply does not work. This does!
Dream stuff. Not only making speakers but making a community and a commune.
Steve was spot on ! If you listen to music in a dedicated manner ie not multitask , = Audiophile
I love Jason's comment about how few singers can change their voice to the mood of the music
Your best yet.highly entertaining . thx
Jay guy is a clown 😂
Good stuff, thanks for putting this out