carlsbad2
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| Need Help With Building DIY Grounding Cable Hmmmmmmm. | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? There is sour grapes everywhere. One other thing you have to be aware of here are people touting Stereophile recommendations just to sound smart when they have never heard any of them. Finally, there is the disinformation spread by Audio Scienc... | |
| New Messiah Thanks. Merry Christmas. | |
| Tube preamp for pass labs ? Does "finally broken in" imply you weren't happy with it at first? | |
| Recommendation Tube Integrated Amost impossible to beat a Decware ZMA. Not easy to find. Multiyear wait but there are a few on the secondary market. Like me, some people move from ZMA to SET. The ZMA has a tremendous power supply so it can provide an honest 35 watts with h... | |
| Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips? Merry Christmas. Tell your children and grandchildren to study physics, it will help you understand every aspect of life. Jerry | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? First, get off compressed air play. Second, get a dedicated streamer. a $200 streamerw will greatly outperform a computer. Go wired from the router to the streamer to the DAC. | |
| Another fuse tweak Is it in the circuit or just providing a good aura? | |
| Power conditioners Avoid any "conditioner" that just passes electricity thought and cleans it up with "filters" or strainers. These are likely to be current limiting. Rectifying and inverting is the proven way to make perfect power that isn't current limited. PS ... | |
| Using a 110V to 220V step up transformer It will work fine. However, you need to get a good quality one. I have a 240V tube amp by Ayon. Recognize that european current is set up differently than US. they have 2 wires, a hot wire and a neutral wire (plus a ground). In the US we have 3 w... | |
| Dolby atmos speakers for 2 channel The upward firing speakers are for movies. Does he have an HT reciever? If so, route the appropriate output to them. To use them for 2 channel sound is not only difficult, but won't improve sound. a fools errand. There isn't a track for the... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? My goal online is to say exactly what I would say to the person face-to-face. Now I am a very direct person face to face. Jerry | |
| Preamp vs Av receiver preouts Don't make your gear fit your space. Make your space fit your gear. | |
| Preamp vs Av receiver preouts @daveteauk Yes, I went through this looking for an amp/pre with HT bypass and didn’t find anything I liked. I ended up with a setup like I described. I think you’re saying that the Anthem does not have an input selector switch. I had an amp with ... | |
| Tips on identifying manufacturers of old tube amps and receivers Google image seach may work and may not. Use close up photos that show details or you'll get back too many matches. |