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| The blackest black paint ever I had an arts and crafts friend actually point me to this black coating. I totally agree with Eric that not all black is created equal. I had been trying to find a really good non-reflective coating for some wood boxes. However, none of the fin... | |
| Tuning my system towards a darker tone Erik suggested WireWorld Eclipse interconnect/speaker cables. These are good to help calm down things, but only if you get the "copper only" cables. In addition, get some basic level copper-only gold-plated Audioquest power cords. The combinati... | |
| Audiophile Grade RCA Input Suggestions? If you're looking for a 2-RCA jack component with 3 leads onto the circuit board, you are not going to be able to get anything good. Best bet is to search through digikey's offerings:https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/barrel-audio-connect... | |
| Passive soundbar @soix - he wants a passive soundbar. Not a normal "powered" soundbar. | |
| Passive soundbar Parts Express does sell a number of pre-built center channels and sub/speaker packages, but they are all crap stuff.The Parts Express "kiits" are actually pretty decent. | |
| B&W vs. Sonus Faber B&W D3 can be bright if you have poor electronics or electronics with a specific voice. They can really shine with proper matching of components. (i.e. avoid putting silver or silver-plated cables in a B&W system). | |
| pre-amps for home theatre....whats your preference? millercarbon has forever been on a crusade to kill multi-channel home theater. It's pretty much like a broken record. | |
| Passive soundbar I have used Dayton parts (such as a full-range or a woofer). They are actually very nice for the money. However, don't go for the ultra cheap stuff. If you are looking at the Dayton center channel speakers for $50 or less, they are pretty much ... | |
| Passive soundbar I don't think there is anything out there which is that cheap. Probably your best bet is to get three matching "center channel" speakers and line them up. The other problem you has is that your width is limited to about 43". Most center channel... | |
| Amp-preamp mismatch?? result higher volume. What is rthe cause?? While a lot of power amplifiers do use a conventional amount of gain (23 dB? 28? something like that) it’s not a requirement. Preamps tend to vary a lot more in the internal total gain, and for sure, you can’t compare volume knob direction betw... | |
| Amp-preamp mismatch?? result higher volume. What is rthe cause?? If you are running your volume control down around 9 o’clock, you are actually throwing away signal level so that a subsequent gain stage can make it back up. This is correct. And there are actually some preamp that just don't give a good qua... | |
| Question about Teddy Pardo PSU for my DAC The Teddy Pardo power supplies are really meant to replace external "wall-wart" switching power adapters. In your case, the Audio Note 2.1 DAC has a really good and beefy power supply built into the DAC case itself. I'm not convinced that a Tedd... | |
| pre-amps for home theatre....whats your preference? It sounds by your "all Klipsch" shopping list that you are probably not looking at the top end of budget.Eric proposed Anthem as a possible suggestion. This is a great suggestion if you're budget limited. However, there are better sounding proce... | |
| is the amp too powerful..and would it hurt or damage my speakers? The reason that an under-powered amp will be more likely to blow speakers is that people will want to turn up the volume. You will reach a point where the amplifier power supply runs out of gas and the output signal is actually clipped or "flat-l... | |
| is the amp too powerful..and would it hurt or damage my speakers? It's no problem to run 150 watt speakers with a 225 watt amps. The amp is only going to output as much power as your volume setting determines. Most listening is actually going to be in the 5 to 15 watt area.Getting a more powerful amp is genera... |