carlsbad
Responses from carlsbad
| Aric Audio Custom 300b PSET Your review of Aric sounds a lot like how I describe my Decware. You lasted 7 months longer than I would have on the waitlist. I'm not good at waiting. Bought mine on the secondary market. I'd love to hear your amp. Great review. Very glad... | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k RE: the crossover discussion. No, you don’t need or want 2 crossovers. If your speaker is set up for biamping, then the crossover inside the speaker will split the signal at the frequency that the OEM thinks is best. Then you just need to figur... | |
| Audiolab 6000CDT @tweak1 I have a $15000 DAC. I hardly ever play CDs. but I bought the CDT6000 when I realized my CDs (played through a player with onboard DAC) didn't sound as good as streaming. It is all about the DAC. so I think you're saying that bad re... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? Confirmation bias is real and very common here. Not saying cables don't matter but when two cables are close, 2 component are close, a new component is added that doesn't make much difference, tubes are swapped, it is easy to get confirmation bia... | |
| Audiolab 6000CDT it is a good cd transport. All depends on your DAC. Jerry | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? Depends on your system. This one likely can't be improved with speaker cables. | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k you need 10 wpc. Not 100. | |
| Looking for new AV Receiver For $1k you aren't going to get much of an upgrade over what you have (unless you go used as Erik suggests). I'd say you're probably better off saving up. Your pioneer isn't a bad reciever. You can take advantage of the PRE out available and ... | |
| Does an Audioquest Niagra 1200 limit amplifier dynamics? Yep. Glad to see people finally asking this question. Nothing to do witht the abiltiy of the filter to "clean up" power. It limits rapid current changes which limits the amp. Anybody who has one should plug their amp directly into the wall... | |
| Rhodium...hmmm Ok. I’ll expand a bit so hopefully you think I’m factual rather than tough. Copper conductivity is 256% of rhodium conductivity. It obviously isn’t an insulator and it obviously works. But why would you wrap your precious highly conductive copper ... | |
| Rhodium...hmmm Rhodium is a poor conductor. Not recommended. | |
| Valve Amp for Sonus Faber Sonetto IIIs I don’t often recommend decware since there is a 2 yr wait. But currently there is a ZMA amp for sale on the Decware classifieds that is currently available and a smoking deal. I have the ZMA and highly recommend it. Your speakers are not the be... | |
| Slow Shipping Question - UPS Shipping etc is all automated and if everything goes as planned, scans happen, truck swaps happen, it all goes well. If, however, a box gets misscanned, the barcode gets damaged, etc, then a human has to look at it and make a decision. These hum... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't find a way to go hardwired to your streamer. | |
| Is it worth upgrading a CD player? @ghdprentice I think you misunderstood my post. I meant that a streamer must work hard to deal with dropped bits and upgrading your streamer is key. I have gone to an Innuos Zenith Mk3. But I think the CD transport has much less tendancy to dro... |