John Reekie
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Article Follow-ups

I don’t like NAS (network attached storage)

This is a footnote to some of my HifiZine articles. I felt it better to put an explanation here than clutter up the articles. First, what is NAS? According to Wikipedia, NAS is “a file-level (as opposed to block-level) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group […]

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RME ADI-2 Pro vs ADI-2 DAC

This is an appendix to my article RME ADI-2 Pro : a Technical Overview. Not long after I purchased my ADI-2 Pro, RME released the “DAC only” version. It felt it worth a brief comparison. Here is the block diagram of the ADI-2 DAC: As you can see by comparing to the block diagram of […]

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Update to Neo3 PDR tweeter mount

In the article Refining a 4-way open-baffle speaker with the miniDSP 2×4, I noted a dip in the on-axis frequency response of the “naked” Neo3 tweeter. The on-axis curve is here in red: A dip like that is hard to remove – you can’t EQ it, as then the off-axis response will have a peak […]

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