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| How long does a DAC take to burn in? There is no benchmark, it varies by component. In detail, what I have personally experienced is a very wide break-in period variance with no empirical explanation other than an anecdotal summation that the better the build quality, the longer the ... | |
| Have you ever duplicated another system that you heard? Yep....I saw and heard my present high-end "A" system first at a dealer.... it impressed me enough to re-audition it several times over the following 2-months.I eventually traded in my current "A" system gear at that time, and I cheerfully bought ... | |
| My Onkyo NR-905 Receiver is making my speakers chirping. Speaker caps either gone or failing (at a minimum) and/or blown driver ???some experiences links: http://www.head-fi.org/t/415732/annoying-chirping-sound-from-speakershttp://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=94615.0http://ask.metafilter.com/1508... | |
| My Onkyo NR-905 Receiver is making my speakers chirping. Never heard of electronics suddenly creating a speaker "chirping" sound phenomenon. ONKYO has a well-known and well-travelled lengthy legendary poor track record of HDMI board failures, but that is USUALLY a catastrophic failure in nature and eas... | |
| Center channel speaker to match Snell Type J speakers? Option 2....(arguably preferred in the long-run) depending primarily on (I) your budget and (ii) speaker shipping logistics, AND (iii) assuming that you are still enthusiastically married to the SNELL family of speakers; and you will be able to fi... | |
| Center channel speaker to match Snell Type J speakers? Every brand of audio equipment , including speakers, has its own sonic signature .Within the available used SNELL model variants -- especially for a 5.1 setup wherein the CC and RL and RR are a non-critical manufactured audio track-- , it won't... | |
| Center channel speaker to match Snell Type J speakers? IMO... just go buy them (ideally two used pairs) that you can find used on hifi shark for easy budget moneyhttps://www.hifishark.com/search?q=snellNOW....(1) Mothball / pack up one speaker aside from pair #1 as a future repair backup, and (2) Hook... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 To CLEEDS"....There is no one subwoofer, there is no one component, that is perfect in every system. The world of audio just isn’t that simple...."I never said it was the final single bests-all-comers solution ..... it wasn’t my article ...just a ... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 "....My question is .... but rather other folks experiences who have tried this and do they feel they got substantial benefit from an extra half octave added to (almost) full range speakers to justify the expense, hassle and real estate taken up i... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 A re-post of a prior good background readhttp://ultrafi.com/why-everybody-needs-a-good-subwoofer/August 3, 2008 …And Why a Really Good Subwoofer is so Hard to FindAudiophiles and music lovers are missing out on one of the most dramatic improvement... | |
| Best speakers under $500? Fire away! At that pricepoint and the specs of your NAD, here is another contender.Wharfedale diamond 10.1google the reviews | |
| Best speakers under $500? Fire away! Can you please list the rest of your system? What music genre is your main passion? SYSTEM synergy matters - big-time. I am assuming that you are also choosing pre-owned and not new speakers.A blind speaker brand and model offering randomly poste... | |
| Interconnect Choices The question as posted is impossible to answer.The cables audio performance -- and your resulting preference of one over another -- , is entirely system dependent. System synergy matters, big-time. A contender in one bespoke system is highly like... | |
| Ceiling Speakers Agreed with stringeenBUT....Martin Logan Architectural Series makes some of the very best in-wall / in-ceiling speakers to meet that genre of speaker model that will smoke anything from BOSE.https://www.martinlogan.com/product-list.php | |
| Portable DAC and Iphone To the OP, lets face some cold hard facts (1) The quality of the audio medium varies widely - choose wisely ... -- All mp3 or even mp3 360 quality recordings (compressed format) have a crap Resulting washed audio signature with a truncated rolled-... |