ahendler
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| Tapping on my table I use thishttp://www.crutchfield.com/p_927ISOTONE/Auralex-ISO-Tone.html?tp=68326&awkw=134193792265&awa...Inexpensive and it worksAlan | |
| Store sound v/s Home sound When I bought my Maggie 3.6 speakers they sounded much better at home then in the store. Maggies need a reflective room and the store had just the opposite. Home auditions are a must.Alan | |
| active room nuetralizer??? What is the product? Are we supposed to guess?Alan | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps Sounds great from the startAlan | |
| TIDAL Desktop Application or Chrome Browser? I know you used to need Chrome to get 16/44. Am not sure if the desktop application gives 16/44. When 16/44 is playing the HIFI logo at the bottom of the screen is brite white. If not 16/44 it is greyAlan | |
| Tidal streaming 192.0Khz/24it? Tidal is 16/44 or lower. There are a few 320kbs files on tidal if they can't get a 16/44 file, but there are very few of these You are upsampling.. Classicsonlinehd does up to 24/192I have never found upsampling to improve sound.Alan | |
| Magnepans 100 watts per side of tube amp power will drive most maggies. I have 3.6's and have driven them with as little as 40 watts per side. I now biamp my 3.6's and have about 200 watts per side. In my opinion Maggies sound best with tubes.Alan | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... I remember when HDCD first came out. I was ready to get a new cd player and found one that decoded HDCD. When comparing the same non encoded cd with the HDCD encoded cd I found no difference in sound. I have heard MQA at home and I hear a differen... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations Try Belden 8402. I have found these to be better than any other cable I have heard and that includes some very expensive cables. You can make your own or do a search and find premade cablesAlan | |
| Review: The LampizatOr DSD Komputer: An Audio Expo in Your Living Room -- or Not? I switched from a PC to a Macbook Pro and never have any problems anymore. Sounds greatAlan | |
| Been "Gone" 10 Years...What Have I Missed? You have missed major improvements in digital sound. A good transport and a newer dac will be much better than anything from 10 years ago. The re-emergence of multi-bit (ladder) dacs is a major change in digital reproduction.. The advent of stream... | |
| How long will tubes last in a pre-amp? Preamp tubes for the average use listener should last 10 to 20 yearsLeft a 12ax7 on 24/7 for 10 years and it still tested goodAlan | |
| power conditioner I use a power regenerator. All my gear is plugged into the Regenerator. Major inprovement in sound. Filters never did anything for me. Also blind testing for audiophiles is worthless. Live with a component for a couple of months playing a lot of m... | |
| Upgraditis I had the 2M Bronze and replaced it with the Black. Major upgrade. It would be much better than the BlueAlan | |
| Reclocking device for the Schiit Gungnir? Try the Intona galvonic isolater . Alan |