carlsbad
Responses from carlsbad
| Line Magnetic 805ia vs high end seperates I use my tube amp for HT. Love it. I don't worry about the cost of the tubes. I live near the beach and don't have air conditioning. So in the summer, a high heat amp isn't for me. I have an Ayon with 4x 6c33C, about 400 watts of heat. Had... | |
| Bose introduces QuietComfort SE wireless headphones spam | |
| Bang & Olufsen launches Beosound Balance in Natural Aluminium Why are you posting an advertisement? | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? Your preamp does not improve the signal. The better the preamp the less it degrades the signal. Consider that your source is a 100% signal. But the DAC/streamer/phono takes 2% of the goodness. You're down to 98%. Interconnects take 2%. World ... | |
| Mixing tube brands @blue-magoo Kevin's prima luna is made is China too. | |
| Mixing tube brands depends on your amp and how bias is controlled. My amp has great bias control and I should be able to adjust the amp to use them in symmetrical pairs so long as they aren't far apart, and IIRC, I've used both of those tubes and they were similar. | |
| Streamer? Aurender's "caching streaming" ? how important is this feature? Aurender isn't the only manufacture using a cache. Less expensive streamers don't use a cache. I had one I really liked for $300, I think $400 retail. I upgraded to a $4500 streamer (not aurender) with a large cache. It was a slight improvem... | |
| Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet? Townshend podiums. I would say they were the purchase the surprised me the most with how much improvement I got. edit: btw, podiums are the opposite of spikes. spikes anchor the speakers to the floor to deaden the vibrations of the cabinet. Po... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer MHO. I had a dedicated NUC I5 used as nothing but a roon endpoint. Digital is digital right? A friend brought over an inexpensive streamer and it sounded better. I bought the same $300 streamer and was very happy. I then upgraded to a $4500... | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? Mostly the DAC. If you have to spend 90% of your digital budget on the DAC, do it. You can get by just fine on a $300 streamer and a $200 digital cable. The upgrade I did from a $300 streamer to a $4500 streamer was the least cost effective mon... | |
| High efficiency desktop speakers I've looked too. I have self powered speakers on my desk but I have a spare tube amp and streamer I could easily use that if I just had a pair of 95db+ speakers. | |
| Coincident 34SE MK II AMP--- replacing the fuse Maybe you know this but fuse is often built into the IEC plug and replaced from outside amp. | |
| Streamer v DAC - which is more important? another vote for DAC by a wide margin. | |
| anyone know how to get Townshend Audio replacement parts? I bought a set direct. Great customer service. Highly recommended. The outriggers were one of the items that truly surprised me with the results I got. | |
| Network Bridge/Streamer only for Qobuz US Bridge Signature streamer and Shanti power supply. Great streamer for the money. |