I'm new to this forum and recently bought the DF Red. I'm also new to the whole audiophile field. The Red is also new so the audio scrapping sound while watching a video last night may go away, I'll give it time to break in.
I appreciate tomf's comments and his reply. Yes different opinions are important as is the flexibility to hear others opinions. What I also liked about tomf's reply was the point about the "sound compared to what". This is why I'm reading this blog. Frankly I'm not interested in hype. I don't mind Chris's comments bc those are his opinions, c'est le vie.
So far most of what I've read about this whole audiophile stuff, e.g. Berkeley Audio Lab, is way past my purchasing power and frankly with all the shit that's going on in the world I don't think major money should be spent on this anyway. But that's just my .02$. I know, should be posted elsewhere.
What I'm interested in is a audio hardware value sheet. E.g. Newbies should do steps 1-5 first. That sort of thing. Basics matter.
So I've read most of Riden's iHi-Fi ebook and found it useful and informative. I use the Herbie's Audio Lab isolation feet under my dated, 2007 HK Soundstick 2 speakers.
I'm also interested in a sound system that plays high res audio and TV audio out of one system, iMac, for less than $1000US. Is that the holy grail? When I chatted with Sonos they told me their sound bar, $700, was for TV audio. So that was a block.