blindjim
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| Fundamental importance of power management @Eric>We shouldn't put amps which can discriminate between power cords up on an altar, we should ridicule them as having woefully under designed power supplies. Blindjim> I agree with your insights on addressing various aspects of the system... | |
| Product purchasing decisions based on manufacturer’s proximity if at all possible I try to buy locally, maybe even if the thing is NOT the identical thing I'm seeking, maybe but a likewise item, just different brand.buying from Brick and mortar shops is nice indeed, but those I've encountered locally in past... | |
| Fate? Karma? Purgatory? Help me put a good spin on this. MS? not bad. home of Kevin Moore (Keb Mo), Paul Thorn, and Morgan freeman. maybe you'll run into one of them. lolone thing about musicians that make a living writing and playing music, most of them are pretty good.I've been to a few festivals an... | |
| ECC81/12AT7 Nos regardless the device, tubes often influence the downstream signal.12AT7s are sometimes on the input side of the amplifier and as such will flavor the overall sound one way or some other.RCAs from the 60s for example which I own, soften up the au... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? OK. it works. its easier than it looks too.the only steps I took were to open A+ and inside Preferences>Audio System tab, select what ever Oppo is populated in the list of audio output device options.there were 3 in my list.I then opened the a+... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? well, a bridge is a bridge is a bridge, at times. some very likely are better than others… but if it is all one has, and they wish to get file playback from PC or NAS, use a mobile device as the remote/controller, and not use USB…. well there yo... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @mahler123>, I was using the Network function of the Oppo to control my NAS. The Oppo app is terrible. Audirvana worked much better using my PC, but that limited me to usb and I couldn’t use the pc and listen to music simultaneously. I don’t... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @mahler123>I hope that your personal security situation has stabilized.OP>it seems to have, though the mail box has none and as such its an ongoing concern, and has been a serious issue twice now.luckily a former close friend, since passed, ... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @mahler123yes. but before the Sonata IIIs were a littany of BW speakers ending with the CDm9Ts with hopes for the 802Ns. things change. B&K, Krell amps came and went.the store I traded with back then lost the bW line. they had Monitor Audio so... | |
| Wilson Audio Sasha 2 for small room? hellorecently I heard at a show the Sasha 3 DA ver. the room was overall near the cubic footage of your's.wider but not as long.... maybe 11 or 12 by 17 to 19 perhaps.they were set up on the short wall.AR monos and their upper range pre had the po... | |
| Ugrade-itis - is there a cure? Hmmm. this sounds like the best rig I've ever put together!!what to do? what to do now?sell it!!!which is exactly what i did... with some regrets.or, better put, sell off most of it and try some new approach I've not experienced previously.such as... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @mahler123 with my B&W 803D Speakers. With some of my SACDs, I have had the I can reach out and touch the Musicians experience via the Oppo-Bryston combo. OP says:I remember those days with Red Book cDs via the Sony SCD XA 777 & BC DAC... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @mahler123> Huge thanks.I'm clueless on why at times, my paragraphs are being duplicated... oil well. sorry.you said you used both Mytek Manhatten and the Bryston DAC3 and I'm guessing the dAC 3 is the current DAC, yes?if so, or no what was t... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? @Eric Thanks Eric I’m all for swaping in and out those lesser priced gizmos, even the media SW I’ve had to digest in order to use. I’m in that sW investigation boat presently. just finished looking into amarra, and about to decide on roon or Aud... | |
| Personal confuser Audio which aspect has the greatest impact on SQ? consider then these new 'interface converters' referred to as bridges' that reside on the LAN or are attached between the PC and what ever D/A converter. each time I’ve added in some level of Digital converter upstream of a dAC the outcome has be... |