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carlsbad

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Too Much Power
Too much class A power creates unnecessary heat.  In a class D amp (or generally class AB) there is no real practical drawback.  You might find that an amp that is designed to put out 600 wpc didn't focus its design on making the first 5 watts (w... 
Choosing a network player/streamer
Roon may see the Yamaha.  Has anyone with roon plugged in the Yamaha streamer to see if roon detects it?    
Choosing a network player/streamer
I am not familiar with either one of them but I have a few thoughts anyway (wish more people would start their post that way).   Can you tell the difference between them sonicly?  I'm sure you know there is the camp that says "digital is just 1s ... 
Staticky noise when music paused
You have confirmed it is not the DAC.  
Anybody use a tube preamp with their home theater system?
I know it isn't your question but just as an aside, I use a tube amp in my HT system.   One possible way to do it is an amp with 2 inputs.  Hook your tube preamp to one input, and your HT system to another.  That is currently what I'm doing with ... 
speaker connector broke
Good opportunity to upgrade.  Buy a pair. One trend I'm following is low mass.  Lots of low mass binding posts for thin walls such as amp chassis' but not many for speakers so do your own research.  (I'm making my own).  If you don't feel comfort... 
No frills speaker manufacturers
Tekton and Tekton. Much of the criticism they get, while not often stated, comes from their lack of polished hardwood. Interesting that responses are trying to convince you that even though you stated that aesthetics weren't important to you, the... 
What's with all the new colored vinyl?
Boxers should be plaid.    
MIT Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker
Yep, this is Tekton technology.  Paper will probably be rejected in peer review as unoriginal.  
How to tell if your AC wiring needs an upgrade
@ozzy @jea48  Very interesting that Niagara is balanced. Great job figuring this out.  
How Electricity Actually Works
@deludedaudiophile I suggest you step away from the keyboard and go sleep off whatever you're drinking.  You're embarassing yourself.  Like how you messed up your attempted slam of me. I hadn't seen the physics today article but want to complimen... 
How Electricity Actually Works
@deludedaudiophile Well, I’m a physicist so no, I’m not saying physicists are wrong. I’ll saying that some laypeople trying to understand physics haven’t gotten it yet. BTW, I do know bernoulli’s equation. It is what makes a plane fly, it isn’t a... 
Nuprime Stream-9 Streamer
Roon will see just about any device that doesn't need drivers installed.  It may call it something wierd.  My core on a NUC is called 1730K1D.  So I"m not surprised by reports that the streamer works just fine. I do have an old DAC that requried ... 
How Electricity Actually Works
As for going faster than the wind...this is another one that academicians love to state purposely vaguely to make you think they are cleverer than they are.  Your vector downwind can never be faster than the wind.  In fact it must be quite a bit l... 
How to tell if your AC wiring needs an upgrade
Recieved mine today. Going back tomorrow.  It was very nice to see my N-E reading is 0 on all circuits. But it is showing 102 on L-N for every outlet in my house.  L-N is currently 118 volts.  I have a monitor installed and check it every day.  So...