carlsbad
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| Sony introduced headphones made from plastic bottles Well ain't that just woke. | |
| Duelund JDM Cu Caps - Opinions I use those for bypass caps on my crossovers. Excellent caps. | |
| DAC’s The DAC is the heard of a digital system. I say it should be your most expensive piece of equipment in most systems. I haven't heard the DAC you reference so I can't comment. You'll get a lot of comments from guys that read a lot of reviews, th... | |
| SVS SoundPath Subwoofer Isolation Feet Springs are better isolation. Much better. | |
| Run with 240volt here in Thailand or use Step down transformer? Higher voltage lower current is always better within limits. Step down transformers are a challenge in themselves. | |
| What should I upgrade first on my budget system? A system is built around a good speaker pair. I 'm not familiar with your speakers. Make sure you're happy with them for the long term. A few more dB would be nice for your tube amp. That amp will probaly do you well for a while. I'd then loo... | |
| sub connection via high level output -> sound quality I believe the preferred wiring is to put the powered sub in series with the speaker. pretty sure this is what REL users do. Your wiring diagram is in parallel. Jerry | |
| To preamp or not to preamp. That is the question. If you think your preamp is adding quality to the presentation, where is it getting it? I like to look at the signal path as 100% as digitally stored on the medium. Every time you touch it to DAC it, to preamp it, to amplifty it, you try not to ... | |
| Cost effective power cables recommendations, low and high power A company that sells reasonably priced, well made 10 awg power cables for amps is ice age audio in Michigan. They use copper terminals (better conductor than brass) and you can get plain copper or silver plated. Very reasonalbe pricing. No snake... | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? I have an old W4S dac2 and it is indeed a good dac if it works in your system. Since you're shopping in this price range, I doubt you'll hear the difference with or without a femto clock (this was a flagship dac over a decade ago but worth a cou... | |
| Butcherblock Acoustics "feet" effecting sound and isolation I posted above about the physics involved. Now @townshend-audio has posted and in their last paragraph they elaborated on the resonant frequeny relationships and that is why I went with Townshend. I knew they had done the work and sized the spri... | |
| Streamer/DAC - Where is the value? I spent more on my DAC than my speakers or my amp. I like them seperate generally since you can never predict your upgrade journey. I would buy either an Allo USBridge Streamer or an IFI Zen streamer, both very good and under $500 and get the best... | |
| Dedicated circuits I think these "dedicated circuit" threads always set the standard for misinformation. and much of the information that is correct is cited for the wrong reason. People don't know the difference between physics and code requiremets. Many people ... | |
| Butcherblock Acoustics "feet" effecting sound and isolation @russ69 Makes you feel better is key. Your granite may be large enough mass that the noises in the room cannot affect it. the natural frequency of a spring system (from memory to excuse me if I get a constant wrong) is sqrt(k/m) where k is the ... | |
| Tube Amp for Devore O/96 @flipturn Hard to say. I don't know those speakers either. they are efficient but not huge. I have huges speakers that can really fill a room without much energy expended. So it really comes down to "would a low power SET sound much better t... |