carlsbad
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| WBT Banana Connectors Look at BFA style. many options but make great contact, are one peice, and low mass. | |
| Need Help Calculating System Amp Draw @acar83 Hope you weren't offended. My message was meant to give you a hard time. You did see that the actual load is much less than calculated load. Erik also recommends measuring. | |
| Putting a new end on a XLR cable I recently built a set of XLR cables using these. Very happy with them. | |
| point-to-point or solder to CB: what should I be considering? I have an Ayon Spark Delta for sale. I found that the circuit board based amp wasn't as clean, clear and magic as the point to point amps. It certainly is a great amp. The 6c33c is a great tube (although it generates a lot of heat). If you'r... | |
| Need Help Calculating System Amp Draw Get all this crap off your audio power circuit. And if your computer is really using 600 watts, that will really heat up the room. And what’s the compressor for? Doing motorcycle maintenance in your man cave? Finally, there are a lot of wrong a... | |
| Purpose of power handling in the specs? @erik_squires cool calculator thanks. So my 96dB speakers that claim they can handle 600 watts input (I'm driving with less than a watt) will generate 124dB at one meter.... Indeed shocking. | |
| Putting a new end on a XLR cable On every thread like this there are always people who recommend calling the manufacturer. I’m sure they are just sadists. They are currently sitting in their listening chair with a snifter of brandy and a smile on their face. They are picturing yo... | |
| Putting a new end on a XLR cable I googled a photo and it isn't obvious to me how to take them apart but a person with more experince should be able to figure it out. However, before you go to al the trouble get a meter and check the resistance of each wire. If you have continu... | |
| Digital Newb with a couple questions You called yourself a newb so I'll throw this out: that piece of equipment seems to be targeted those who have been told that USB=Bad and I2S=good. Marketing. Best of luck. Jerry | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? not by today's standards. | |
| Where's the remote? Use roon and you can use the digital volume control in roon. It’s very good. I currently use the volume control in my DAC, but if I try a DAC w/o volume control that is what I do. | |
| How do you stop house guest from damaging your speakers? Nobody that visits my place would consider touching my equipment. If someone did come over that I didn't trust, I'd gve them a prejob briefing that nothing should be touched. | |
| Refurbish Tube Amps @brandonw just joined yesterday but I have known him for a while. If he has time, he would be a good candidate but his custom amp business is taking off. | |
| Does your IFi Zen Steam have Low Gain? If you are using roon, go through all the options and make sure you don't have a DSP option enabled and turned way down. for this streamer. Roon saves different settings for each device. | |
| Does your IFi Zen Steam have Low Gain? 30 dB is a lot. I don't have one but I would be sure that there is a problem. What DAC are you using and what type digital interconnect? |