carlsbad2
Responses from carlsbad2
| 21 year old AV receiver - waiting for the end? There might be a little smoke and smell. there might be some static or hum. But most likely one channel will quietly quit making music. Jerry | |
| Rear speakers duplicating main speaker sound from TV source? what rear speakers? I do have rear surround speakers but they only play when I have a dolby 5+ channel feed through a totally different signal path. So I'm guessing you have your AV reciever set to something like "all channel stereo" where... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! Playing moderator here: Nobody has said what an expensive streamer does differently than a budget streamer. Are bits dropped? Are the output files supposed to be identical or does a streamer have lattitude is translating a data file to a music ... | |
| Speaker spikes-worse sound-what gives? Nothing has changed in the 20 years since this was posted. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? To me the DAC is the signature component of a digital system and easy to hear the differences. Just had a guy bring over a PA Audio Directstream MK2 DAC to compare with my Chord Dave. Both are FPGA but from different continents. Differences were... | |
| Antipodes from the Antipodes I just upgraded streamers (won't mention it so not to risk sidetracking your thread) but I love it. More musical and extremely Roon friendly. Enjoy! Jerry | |
| Virtual System Page...broken? @noromance I don't do vinyl but your collection looks great and makes me wish I did. Awesome setup. Jerry | |
| Virtual System Page...broken? Works for me too. My modest system is down about 15 or 20. Jerry | |
| Loki Max analog improvement I always change the knobs out on my equipment. Cheap and satisfying. Jerry | |
| Campfire Trifecta cable recommendations Cables don't create "brightness". They transmit it after it has been created. trying to tone down what you percieve as overly bright with a cable is 2 wrongs trying to make a right. Look elsewhere for your problem, probably your source componen... | |
| Synergistic element copper good for power amp? Power, speaker, or signal cables? | |
| Another dilemma about a right choice for best possible speaker option. I assume you need sensitive speakers for use with an SET. Not many options there. In that price range look for a used higher end full size Tekton speaker. No better sensitive speaker out there. Jerry | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. +1 @nonoise re: your soul. | |
| Redundant Internet @erik_squires I'll check. I'd hate to give you misinformation. | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. While people are idealistically saying cost doesn't matter, it is hard to be an audiophile with a $12 pair of Amazon Basics computer speakers. |