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| The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change About the picture…it’s a power cord that came with my Running Springs Maxima. The outer sheath was loose and taped in place so I decided to pull it back and take a look. Now, this is PC that I was told costs over $1K new!!! Turns out it has abo... | |
| How does a preamp die from sitting unused for a few months? Thanks, all. The pre is only a few years old (not sure exact date as I’m currently at work) and it was just kept in my spare bedroom which I use for storage. I’m the only one who handles the gear so no drops, bumps, etc. And no dramatic change ... | |
| How does a preamp die from sitting unused for a few months? I'm guessing danager is probably right. 😉 I only visually checked the fuse and didn't do a continuity test with the power cord connector. I'll try those next. None of the tubes turn on. I'm leaning toward the toggle power switch gave out as t... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Joe Sample - Old Places, Old Faces. | |
| Did I Get the Wrong Intel NUC? Thanks, all. I’ve checked over at the Roon forums and most everyone says the ROCK OS needs to go on an M.2 SSD so I ordered one. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Mhwilliford, Thanks for sharing what you hear the differences to be. Appreciate it. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Not sure if the hearing test question was directed at me, but in my case I did have one done a few months back. I don't hear past 13k or so, I think. It might have been even lower. mhwilliford, have you noticed differences in sound after going ... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Thanks, duckworp, for sharing your testing results. I think most audio gear is so good nowadays that the "diminishing returns" thing kicks in real hard sometimes. Your post reminds me of a time years back where I bought a new pair of speakers ... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! At one time I was comparing three different streamers and three DACs. I was rather surprised that I heard bigger differences in sound quality with the streamers than I did the DACs. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Thanks, everyone, for your shared experiences. I do appreciate it. Normally, how I evaluate new gear is to put it in and live with it for a while. Sometimes, the new piece doesn’t play well with whichever pieces are in play that it gets removed ... | |
| Garage into listening room? Charllee, Just looked at a map. Turns out I’m about 30 minutes NW of Tacoma. Ft. Lewis has changed so much. Bet you wouldn’t even recognize it nowadays. | |
| Garage into listening room? I think this plan will be on hold until I decide to actually build a room into my garage. I had forgotten just how cold (and hot) my garage can get. I stepped out there a few days ago and thought it'd be difficult to heat that entire space to ev... | |
| Garage into listening room? Thanks, everyone for the suggestions and info. It's just an open garage with no pillars. Since I sold my BMW 650i Coupe, none of my other cars are worthy of being pampered. They will live outside and be happy. Not sure if reverberant outhous... | |
| Rega RB-700 antiskate Thank you. | |
| Rega RB-700 antiskate Thanks for the suggestion. They're not allowing anyone new to register. I've found out pulling the thing in/out is how it's adjusted. Looks like pulled all the way out gets close to 0 and pushing all the way in is at its max. Unfortunately, th... |