cerrot
Responses from cerrot
| Most beneficial change . Those speakers are notorious for sounding poor with the grills on. I'm quite surprised. | |
| Most beneficial change . That will be it! Report back. | |
| Ayre SPDIF DAC The Ayre DAC that was in Stereophile was the USB DAC. The machine on the link Cmalak provided is for the new bluray/universal player. I heard that Ayre was coming out with a dac with spdif input-just like the new usb dac just w/o usb and w/spdif. ... | |
| Most beneficial change . Saki,You do have the grills removed, correct? | |
| Most beneficial change . Your speakers are finicky as respects placement. Most who have them in a smaller room have them placed along the long wall. You may try moving things around a bit before spending more money (and time) on new speakers. How far do you sit from your ... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? My girl holds the tape measure while I zero in the sweet spot. Only time she comes into the sound room. Great gal. Has NEVER uttered the words..."can you lower that!". | |
| crackles & pops Doug,I had set my weight with the clearaudio digital scale to 1.8g (cartridge rec is 1.8g to 2.25)-just assumed lighter in that scale would be best. I fine tuned VTF and all sounded great, but the platter sound (surface noise) bothered me. Mostly ... | |
| Cary 306 Pro opinions You should reconsider including SACD. It truly sounds spectacular with the right system/room/recording. I recently played a Mozart SACD (Midori) and must say, I was blown away (and I'm a vinyl guy). | |
| Firewire to SPDIF Sorry to hear, Arj. I really feel Firewire is the better interface (over usb) but haven't played with it on a laptop/outboard card. Sorry for your experience. | |
| Are You a Sansui Lover? The first good sound I heard was 1979, the Sansui 9090DB into some large Altec Lansing speakers (Chris C., Brooklyn, NY -RIP). Only played metal, and, boy, were they loud. Remebering back, they had no depth of soundstage. But, Saturday night at Ch... | |
| Buy new TV now or wait for 3D technology? Pioneer Elite Kuros is THE ONLY WAY TO GO. | |
| Firewire to SPDIF Thanks, Al. Very good point. Another reason why I think Arj's interface is the issue. I have the TI chip and haven't had a dropout. I couldn't find much on the Compaq interface Arj is using. | |
| your reference dvd When I wan to show off, I throw Planet Earth in. Looks awesome on the 60" Pioneer Elite - certain jaw dropping. For sound, I jut have them come upstairs into the sound room :) | |
| Firewire to SPDIF Arj,I just did some poking around. The Compaq PCMCIA card may be an isue as well. I'm assuming device manager doesn't show any issues. I'm not familiar with the technology on the interface but I would speculate, perhaps, a better card may help? I'... | |
| Firewire to SPDIF Arj,That is very strange. I haven't any issues with smoothness. I am running Vista service pak 2 (32 bit) and using the M Audio drivers, and no issues. I do have a pretty beefed up PC. Maybe the power supply is the issue. I used the power supply w... |