carlsbad2
Responses from carlsbad2
| Presidents Day HiFi sales Yes but to have hifi sales, you need hifi stores. | |
| Power cables and power conditioners The cable feeding your PP12 needs to be high ampacity. all the power going to all your other components must come in on that cable. So it needs to be 12awg and preferably 10awg. Jerry | |
| Confused about adapter for RCA to BNC As @audphile1 has suggested, and my favorite, is AES if your DAC has an AES input. This comes after trying everything else. | |
| Torx screws for Leben Lid Take one of the others to Denaults Hardware where they have the boxes with every size scriew in it. It will likely be metric. match the threads with the screws in the boxes. they also may have a thread gauge mounted in the area you can screw it... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @tony1954 You had a great decade there. Qute the set of memories. thanks for sharing. | |
| Confused about adapter for RCA to BNC That CD transport has an RCA digital output for SPDIF. is it non-functional? If you are just trying to use the BNC cable I think you would be much better off with a properly designed SPDIF cable. That said, I found a company that sells a $2000 c... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? I've heard a friend tell this story several times: He asked a very good looking girl to a Billy Squires concert. She said yes. they went to Tiketron to get tickets. The guy in charge let the hot date in at the head of the line and she got front ... | |
| Confused about adapter for RCA to BNC What is the source of your BNC? Do you have a streamer with only BNC out? BNC and RCA are not interchageable--they are generally used for differnt signals so even if you had the cable, it wouldn't work. What is your streamer? Jerry | |
| Used tube preamps, Cary, AR, Aesthetix, Wells...........or? I had an amp that sounded better using XLR inputs. It used a jensen transformer on the XLR input. There is no inherent difference between them signal wise so any difference in sound is related to how each one is implemented in the amp. XLR may ... | |
| Used tube preamps, Cary, AR, Aesthetix, Wells...........or? I don’t use a preamp so I don’t stay up on them. but my DAC serves as a preamp. It accomodates several different types of tubed and currently I’m using 300Bs in it. I highly recommend a preamp with DHT output tubes. If you can’t find one, Aric or ... | |
| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." @jl35 yes I do because garmin is a much larger market and they pay for advertising rather than reviews. Reviewers make money by posting their reviews and getting clicks. Totally different business model. Now I just spent 8 hours shopping for a wa... | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? @mitch2 beautiful clean install. When i do something like that, the more work it is, the more rewarding it is afterward. If those breakers really are purely magnetic, they are better than any fuse. Great job. Jerry | |
| Pure Silver Wire Remember brightness or harshness varies a lot from person to person. Be tweeters are harsh to some. One reason this could vary is hearing loss. As an old guy, my upper frequencies are weak so if something seems harsh to me, all I have to do is ... | |
| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." Ok. I'm jaded. But we've had discussions before of how we never see a negative review. I just think people should realize if money is changing hands in retrun for a positive review. Jerry | |
| Pure Silver Wire Silver is a better conductor which is important when conduction is the only issue. Now I don't recommend using a poor conductor for interconnects and speaker cables, but conduction (opposite of resistance) isn't the only concern in audio. Silver... |