bimmerlover
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| Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. @mitch2 I think it’s safe to say there’s a tremendous amount of overthinking and overpaying in this group. When someone is seriously contemplating if it’s worthwhile to upgrade a $1500 power cable to a $4500 power cable, or they are surprised tha... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @eurorack of course if you change from a substandard, “crud” power cord to something that’s half decent you should notice a difference. That’s obvious. Crap is gonna limit anything in this world - power cords or not. What we discussing in this th... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @mihorn Your comment “In my experience, a last 5ft power cord is much more important than in-wall wiring. Like a garden water hose, the nozzle only sees what it’s connected. The audio equipment draws the current from a power cord which is a bigger... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @invalid The electrons don’t care if you or I call the power cord the last or first five feet in a circuit that also involves 10 to 40 more feet of in-wall wiring. | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? I assume you didn’t spend several thousands of dollars on a 5 feet power cord without installing a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 10 gauge wires from your panel? Otherwise, what difference will the last 5 feet make? | |
| Going Tubing Thanks again for all the advice and recommendations. This truly is a very engaged and knowledgeable audiophile community! So, I ended up heeding this thread’s frequent advice to start off with a tube pre-amp and found a used PrimaLuna DiaLogue Pr... | |
| Going Tubing They are GoldenEar One.Rs | |
| Going Tubing Thanks again for all insights. The Schiit Freya + certainly sounds interesting, and has been recommended by at least a couple of people in this thread. What is this knowledgeable group’s opinion of the PrimaLuna Dialogue Premiere and the Prim... | |
| Going Tubing Many thanks to the many answers and insights shared. There’s a lot to distill and there are of course one hundred and one different directions one can go, based on integrated vs. separates, what matches/is able to drive my GE One.R:s and, not leas... | |
| Going Tubing Thanks for these responses! My speakers are GoldenEar One.R:s. Sensitivity is pretty solid at 92 dB, and they have built-in subs so I would assume a need to push a great deal of power to them wouldn’t be necessary. Thus a - typically - lower powe... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? When I purchased Emotiva’s differential pre-amp (XDA-3) and their power amp (XPA-Dr3, ~ 500w/ch) together with their own power conditioner, their recommendation was to NOT plug the power amp into the conditioner but straight into the wall outlet. |