audioguy85
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| vibration control - cd player I too use the vibrapods with cones on my cyrus cdt. Economical solution to vibration/Isolation, if in fact a problem even existed. | |
| Turntable Cartridge upgrade question. Why not put the ortofon 2m black lvb 250 stylus on your black? According to Fremer, it performs like a moving coil. A worthwhile upgrade. As others have asked, why would you cheap out on the phono stage? You should be spending at least a grand on ... | |
| on the cheap Grace digital link... https://gracedigital.com/products/grace-link On sale at Amazon for $169. I love mine...has a screen to show the cover art and what is playing, also natively streams pandora, which most do not. It’s built in. Otherwise, to... | |
| Solid State Low powered Amplifiers What is the concern of running a class A Amp in summer? I fail to understand. I've had mine for 5 years, I have central air, I do not see or feel a difference. See meaning significant added cost to cool. It is a miniscule amount of heat when compa... | |
| Ways to make your digital streaming sound better Use an optical cable made by the Chord company, on of all things, a Sony mini disc player/recorder. Played a mini disc of west side Story (original sound track), as well as a miles Davis kind of blue mini disc....I’m blown away at how good it soun... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. If you biwire with two separate identical cables, which is the recommendation, and you only have one pair of speaker outputs on your amp, well then you have no choice but to use spades on one of the pairs (amp end). | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line I have a dedicated line and hear no such noise or interference from other circuits, motors etc it also was not expensive or that difficult. I also did not go nuts, no need to. Simple 12 awg romex 50ft, 20 amp breaker, AQ nrg Edison receptacle. So... | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range Must be nice to be able to afford to spend 25k on a speaker. | |
| How does bi-wiring work? The audioquest web page has an excellent tutorial on bi wiring. I use two separate pairs of type 4 to good effect. | |
| Transport Recommendations Cyrus makes a good one, the Cyrus cdt. I’m loving mine, especially the deal I got on it from the music room. It takes up far less room than some of the others, which was important to me, as my allocated living room real estate Is limited by the wi... | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? @phd "You will own nothing and be happy" that is their greater plan for all of us. | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? I plan to round out my small collection of amps with the purchase of the rogue sphinx v3 or maybe a v4 version if/when available. I already own a class A, and a class AB amp, so it would be nice to own a class D with tubes. Plus I think the sphinx... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources The iPhone 5 was known to have a very good dac built in. Just as the play station 1 was known to be a very good cd player. | |
| Streaming upgrade from Cambridge Audio cxn v2 They literally just came out with a replacement to the cxn v2.... | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection I’d recomend having a look at the better records website. I’m not advising paying those prices, but there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained on what classical pressings sound good and some history behind the recordings. I’ve bought numerous rec... |