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| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? @emergingsoul next to adding a Trinnov the kscape is the biggest improvement to my system. Flat out I’ll pick the kscape first and only stream a series or occasionally movies unavailable to buy for the kscape system. Often I’ve bought titles that... | |
| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? What is your budget? Are ok buying on the secondary market? I have both in the same room, with XLR switch for HT bypass for Vinyl from my 2ch gear. Our house is open concept, the HT\2Ch is in the corner of the L shapped floor plan. Its amazing bo... | |
| Hooking up two preamps to one power amp Does that amp have an XLR RCA toggle in the back? Can it accept both inputs live and at the same time? If so, I doubt your XRL is a true balanced. Perhaps it has some auto-switching when you plug in the XLR. I built my own XLR switch to toggle my ... | |
| DAW vs Alexia 1 vs Sasha 2, descending order of $$ I am indeed still enjoying my Sophia 1, a humble speaker in the Wilson family. I still think about "upgrades" Yvette or Sabrina X, or DAW, the Alxia which is too large for my room as is the Sasha if I am honest. I recently replaced all the resisto... | |
| When were the best tube amps made? I would suspect Lamm has built one of the finest tube amps ever. | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? I love having both, but prefer my vinyl setup when I am in the mood to be fully involved in the listening. I also love my cassatte tape system, even though its noisy but that pure analog has some magic. My go to Daily system is all Digital via Roo... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I recent sold off my excellent Classe' Audio Omega Mono's that did Pure Class A to 30% rated power, at 200lbs per amp they were never more than warm no matter how i played them. They did take a few hours to fully warm. I decided to try Trinnov AMP... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender I suggest that mesh is the best if you have low interference; things like Microwaves (kitchen) and other devices generate noise and can attribute slow to no network information. Modern equipment falls back to the lowest speed to compensate and, if... | |
| Snake oil of the year? I'm in the engineers camp, 25 years in IT; there is nothing a fancy switch can do to change the packet to make it sound better than an inexpensive switch, as mentioned earlier in this thread. Anyone who uses Qobuz or Tidal, even Pandora, your data... | |
| Improvement in Musicality for home theater system I run a 2 channel tube pre with an XLR switch to bypass my processor (Trinnov AL16). The only time I use the tube is when playing vinyl or cassette tapes. The Trinnov does digital very well, the room correction is excellent. When setting up the sy... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? I have been in IT services for 20 years; my understanding is that data arrives intact or doesn't. If you hear a difference, you have a bad power supply in your switch that adds noise, affecting the DAC's Analog out. Wall warts = noise, but a good ... | |
| Smart buying buying a preamp with tubes anot avail except as made by preamp manuf? There are only so many tube makers in the world so would suspect they have called out design to one of the mfg. What is the mfg of the preamp? do they call out the tube spec? | |
| UPS vs LPS What about noise from transformers at the pole? I would imagine that a UPS would calm that noise down, perhaps replace it with its own, and then the filtering of decent power supply in the sources. | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? If it has not been mentioned, setup a discogs.com account, you can inventory the LP's and get sense of there worth. Some LP's can hold value, I know my collection has a fairly high value, if using the median price for sales history. You can list t... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. I buy tapes from small artists in very limited runs of tapes, some better than others and just like vinyl record pressings. Some winners some losers. |