blindjim
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| Modwright LS 36.5 or BAT VK-51SE both are first rate items from first rate folks.I'd guess the issue here revolves around what sort of sound you are shooting for and which features best suit your needs.... if both are on par with one another pricewise. | |
| Velodyne DD10 vs DD12 ...leafmy room is not much larger... at about 2700 cu ft. I own a DD 15... I cuold use two of them IMHO.... or maybe an 18.But for sure more than the single 15 in place now.it's livable with... not bad... OK... but not scintilatingly exciteting. A... | |
| Matching speaker to amplifier? Stan's input is correct as usual. Id offer too you contact the speaker makers and ask them for some input as well. Youve a few factors in making a good amp to speaker match. The room size. The spl you prefer to listen to. And the type of sound y... | |
| Do power cords make an audible difference? Bigbucks"..tree in the forrest...." Ridiculous.What if there was a person there but he/she was deaf?Absolutely there would be a noise. It doesn't matter if the noise or sound is noticed or not.... there's going to be a sound when trees fall in a f... | |
| Primare Pre30 vs. the Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE Preamp It's always the more expensive one that will be the best, in these "which one is best" contests. | |
| solid state vs tubes My short answer is No. Ive not heard a tube amp that sounds like an SS amp in particular, nor the other way round. Ive only heard some of each amps attributes correlate to either amp despite their obvious topologies being vastly different..I se... | |
| Do power cords make an audible difference? The ability of a system to resolve information is key for decerning cabling changes as they do or do not influence or alter the audio product when put in place of the orig power cords.I feel it depends on which power cord as well. Ive a Bedroom s... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio The notes contained herein on your router being the propulsive engine for your inter home operations is true.The DSL aspect only would apply to those machines drawing directly from the internet some audio of video stream (s), or other info/data.Me... | |
| Sonicweld or M2Tech hiFace usb to spdif converter IÂd not hang my hat on one poor review . Or reviews in particular. But the Hiface gizmo has gotten loads of positive comments from a lot of folks in lots of places! Here as well, if you check the archives.Given it's near nothing cost, I'd recomme... | |
| Speaker Cables for VA Mahlers with Linn electronic What Raquel wrote is interesting.I've used SR Sig 10 active x2 biwires, 21ft long for sometime now. Used with several amps, and several speakers thru that time period. All with very good results. I too am considering for some future event, shorter... | |
| If I upgrade my speaker, do I need to ... 802N or 802D? that might matter here.Despite the 92db eff rating on the BW N type speaker, they do enjoy more power more so. Your amp, I believe ought to run them Ive heard of folks using a 60wpc CJ tube amp on them actually . But to what extent... | |
| Why are server setups so costly relative to CDP's? WsomersIf the budget benchmark is $1K . ONLY music servers from scratch can seem pricey, given one needs to acquire a DAC and a PC which will output into a wideband interface.If you own a $8K CDP.... servers might seem too cheap to bother with an... | |
| 24/96 files for M2tech hiFace If I wanted to determine the or any, noted diffs from two identical tracks with one being provided in 24/96 or higher, vs. one of lower word and sampling rate, I'd do the download of the high res file, and then buy the CD of it, as one example. Th... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" 1. As much as Lowell Thomas and later, Walter Cronkite were big proponents of the "you are there" news reel and then TV show... I'm more into having the entertainers standing in front of me... saves on parking, trip times, traffic, gas, etc.It als... | |
| Room Treatments - How? I'll second the consulting with a pro or two prior to throwing in a lot of money towards treating the room.Ensuring all is set up well and the bass is as good as you can do first, is way important too.There's tons of DIY info on rolling your own t... |