chadeffect
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| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Hi LulaI do know what you mean regarding lateral moves when buying new and hopefully "improved" equipment. I have a pretty well trained ear and unfortunately find myself long enough in the tooth these days to know what I am after. Good as the ML w... | |
| Assistance for PC challenged By the way how are you connecting from the computer to the dac? Remember some low end soundcards will use the RCA as a digital out or even the headphone out too as an optical. If so you will need to go into the soundcards software to set it up dig... | |
| Assistance for PC challenged remove the Soundmax by setting it to disable in the tab in audio devices. Then choose from the list of audio devices the one you want the computer to use all the time. If the one you want is not there in the list then you will need to install nort... | |
| To Filter or Not To Filter . . . Filter. The question should be which not if? Dedicated mains if you can. If you are really going for it separate source and amps or digital and analogue. | |
| Rock: well recorded bass...60s/70s Phasecorrect,I agree with Audiofeil. There must be something wrong with your set up. You dont say what you have, but maybe you are not completely phase corrected!Macdadtexas,I see you use Maggie 3.6r, so bass information should not a problem for y... | |
| Assistance for PC challenged you need to be looking in the control panel in windows. Then in sound devices to set it up for what you need. You will need to disable the internal sound if it has one. Then select the audio device you want to use for audio. Make sure you have the... | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Jim I enjoyed the rambling. I dont want to rob this thread too much more, but there are some things that I think cause some people to prefer the idea of analogue.1 its what many have grown up with and are used to.2 Analogue equipment has on the wh... | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Hi Jim,I know what you mean regarding the use of the word "imaging" usually. I used it in this case to describe where I feel the steps forward have been taken with these CD players. Audio research are good company and it is very unlikely the CD8 i... | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Hi Aldavis,No offense taken. I understand your point. In my experience once all those things are dealt with and the rest of the system is fine tuned and working at its best, all you have left is the source. Rubbish in rubbish out. What I mean by i... | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Hi Lula,not sure you can be serious about top CD players and be discussing ancient players like the 20i and CD12 and comparing them to new players. The CD7 has large but vague imaging with slightly constricted flow of dynamics, although like most ... | |
| Running a fan to cool amplifier any ill effects? if the tubes run slightly cooler this may extend their life a little. I would be more concerned about the electrical noise the fans motors could be dumping into the mains. If you have a different circuit for the hifi or conditioning of some sort y... | |
| Is music quality moving away from the "audiophile" There should be a distinction with the word compression here. There is dynamic compression and data compression.Dynamic compression means that the signal being processed has an amount of automatic volume control applied. Depending on the settings ... | |
| Why are older tubes so much sought after Eldartford,my point exactly. | |
| Why are older tubes so much sought after Hi Trelja,I would agree with sirspeedy, you need to find the right balance for a specific set up. But I think this takes a great deal of experience, time and cash.I listen to a wide range of musical styles. From classical orchestral music and smal... | |
| Why are older tubes so much sought after Juanpablocuervo,I have had the same experience with 12au7. Fantastic film. I have not seen that one before. Notice all the internal parts are selected and moved by hand, and not a rubber glove to be seen. All the salt from sweaty hands carefully p... |