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| Audioqest Wild Wood or Tara Lab Omega Gold? Gentlemen, the reason for all of the uncertainty about the gauge of the Tara cable is that the wording at their website is ambiguous, in two respects.First, the Omega Gold speaker cables are described as having a "separate positive and negative co... | |
| Rock with strings Thanks, Marty(kl). Agreed.There is a good deal of ambiguity inherent in the term "rock," of course, which was added to (at least in my mind) by the reference to "rock/pop" in the OP.Speaking of the "schmaltz factor," BTW, I won't deny not being av... | |
| Rock with strings 11-11-15: PhasecorrectCould be worse. Rock + flute(vomit).Sorry Tull fans.Check out the "Projections" album by The Blues Project, ca. 1966-67. To me one of the best rock albums ever made. The cut "Flute Thing" on that album has a flute as its feat... | |
| Are you happy with Windows 10 Pro? Pete (Ptss), i7, i5, and also i3 refer to different series of Intel CPU chips. Various versions of each series have existed since around 2010 for laptop applications, and since slightly before that for desktop applications. Each series has evolved... | |
| Transitioning from SS to tube amplification Jim (Broadstone), 'twas I who referred earlier in this and other threads to these measurements of the currently produced Reference 3A MM de Capo BE, optimistically spec'd at 92 db and 8 ohms, and speculated that the sensitivity of your earlier Ref... | |
| Quality Power Cord Not surprisingly, out of 12 responses so far in which specific recommendations have been made, by my count 12 different power cords have been suggested (although some more than once).It appears that the NAD C 356DAC, which is an integrated amplifi... | |
| Are you happy with Windows 10 Pro? ZD, thanks very much for the nice words, and for providing the link. It reinforces the feelings I've had that in my case, at least, there's no reason to "upgrade" from Windows 7 to 10. (To put that into context, I should add that I don't use compu... | |
| Transitioning from SS to tube amplification Jim (Broadstone), having no experience with PrimaLuna, Rogue, or Cary products, I can't add too much at this point. What I can say, though, is that among medium powered tube amplifiers I and a goodly number of other audiophiles do have a particula... | |
| USB printer cable VS USB audiophile grade cable? I would think that bits would arrive cleaner by having a sort of wall between the noisy multi purpose computer and the dac. Optical i would have thought would provide this vs a usb which relies on an electric signal from the computer.Yes, that is ... | |
| Peachtree Audio Nova - No subwoofer connection B_limo, it's hard to say which approach would be better in your case. I suspect that either one would work reasonably well.I assume you are referring to the Asgard 2, as the earlier version does not appear to have provided pre-outs. Although I sus... | |
| Are you happy with Windows 10 Pro? P.S: See the section toward the bottom of this page entitled "How to perform a clean installation of Windows," which appears to confirm my previous comments. See particularly the note below item 5.Regards,-- Al | |
| Are you happy with Windows 10 Pro? ZD, good point, but I believe that clean installation media can be created by downloading Windows 10 via this page. And if 7 has already been upgraded to 10 and 10 has been activated on the particular machine, per my comments above installing from... | |
| Are you happy with Windows 10 Pro? Steakster, assuming as I would expect that Windows 10 has a task manager function (which is taskmgr.exe in Windows 7), open it and under the "processes" tab see what process or processes have high CPU utilization percentages indicated. If the fan ... | |
| Phono Interconnect Makes sense to me. The capacitance-related differences I referred to, though, are probably going to be fairly slight in a 5 or 6 foot length, as long as cable capacitance is in the area of the Mogami or Blue Jeans cables. And I suspect those diffe... | |
| Phono Interconnect Thanks Sam. The cartridge manual states as follows:If your receiver or pre-amp has capacitance loading capabilities, a Sumiko high output moving coil cartridges should be loaded with a value no higher than 200pf, and ideally below 100pf.Unfortunat... |