antigrunge2
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| New turntable: please help with cartridge selection: Ortofon vs Lyra vs Charisma vs Hana Try a Zyx Universe; wonderful combination of detail retrieval and musicality | |
| Us: hobbyists vs perfectionists vs aural epicureans vs rampant consumers vs bad Buddhists? Anally retentive Epicureans? I guess that’d make us bad Buddhists. There is obviously also a Dionysean component at play which has to do with good vibes.I guess I better leave it at that before I get into trouble with the Thought Police. | |
| BW 800 D3 Floor Speakers Wavac SH833 | |
| Lack of Female Representation Could it be that differences in their physique lead to a different breaking of the sound waves😱 | |
| Switching to battery power @mijostyn,obviously you continue to inhabit a Leibniz ‘best of all conceivable worlds’To us lesser mortals, there are substantial audible and demonstrable benefits from cleaning up the AC via separate spurs, passive or active filtering and improve... | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F Digital gear today is far and away superior to vintage vinyl, particularly on digital recordings post ca.2000. The same is not true for amps nor speakers, particularly at the high end | |
| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice Antelope sells Zodiac Platinum Dacs on Reverb.com. A real value for money proposition for an integrated top DAC/Pre | |
| Pimping your router @arafiq,unfortunately I am not familiar with your router. Assuming it‘s 5 or 12V DC though, you have a wide choice of LPSs. I have best experience with Kingrex but have also used $100 LPS on Alibaba with good results. The effect is best described ... | |
| Pimping your router @mikem,the issue isn‘t the integrity of data packets nor their sequencing: it is the extraneous RFI/EMI and ground level grunge travelling alongside the data and having a nefarious impact on the re-conversion in the analogue domain. And: no, the n... | |
| Contact -enhancer, fuses - NOS 1260 High fidelity audio cables @ozzy sounds like a case of overdosing: this needs to be applied in absolutely minimal amounts. If you had arching, you most likely put on too much.In my case the result was outstanding, particularly on tube sockets and fuses and -holders | |
| Innuos update 1.4.8 https://innuos.com/kb/innuos-1-4-8-released-03-05-2021/ | |
| Contact -enhancer, fuses - NOS 1260 High fidelity audio cables There is a cheaper solution: Mad Scientist Audio Graphene Contact Enhancer (madscientistaudio.com) Works a charm for a fraction of the cost. Only inconvenience is long shipping time from NZ. | |
| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice The answer to your question depends on the distance between pre and power amp. Anything less than 2m won‘t make much of a difference, anything further: balanced wins. | |
| Hi Fi Tuning Supreme fuse-Burn In? I Have used Furutech, Hifi-Tuning, SR, Buss and other fuses, never found one sounding the same both ways. Strong suggestion: use graphene paste or other contact enhancers. The effect is strongest on fuses and fuse holders. My last upgrade was from... | |
| Power cable education needed And on and on and on.... |