cleeds
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| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? Frankly, no. The dealers I've known actually take care in helping to match components. I think that's one of their most useful functions. | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback billstevenson I am hoping we can form a consensus ... Not likely. | |
| Broken View Notifications Is this the "let's talk in riddles" thread? | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? ghdprentice In simple inexpensive amps perhaps the tube can get you somewhere better and more sophisticated. But for carefully designed high end amps, the tubes are chosen for availability and general character and then the rest of the component... | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles waytoomuchstuff As one who likes to add context and clarity to complex situations, I'd want to make a simple distinction between Meatloaf, the performer, and meatloaf, the meal. The performer is not "Meatloaf," but Meat Loaf, aka Michael ... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? It’s technology that keeps me edging forward. I’m not an early adopter but time marches on for all of us. So what started as just turntable, tuner, and reel-to-reel sources evolves to add CD, DVD, streamer, DAC ... | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles hifiguy42 Love meatloaf, both the overblown singer and the foodstuff. The singer wasn't meatloaf, but Meat Loaf, aka Michael Lee Aday. | |
| Streaming Tidal/Qbuzz Vs Internet Radio audiostick ... my DAC (LAIV Harmony) always shows nothing higher than 44.1kHz. The sound is fantastic, and I would assume that I am listening to something with higher resolution. Am I missing something here? I don't think so. You're not going ... | |
| HiFi Rose 250A issues with app & setting up I think life is too short to waste time with junktronics. Return for refund if it doesn't work properly. | |
| Streaming Tidal/Qbuzz Vs Internet Radio buellrider97 ... doing an A/B comparison and I prefer the 192k over the FLAC ... That is cool there's no issue with having a preference. You might want to consider that sometimes what sounds best short term is not what satisfies long term. | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… milimetr Sorry but I started this thread not to educate about shielding. You mentioned shielded speaker cables, so it seems reasonable to ask: To what is the shield connected? What would be the advantage of an unconnected shield? ... to giv... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… milimetr Can be grounded, can be left unconnected. To what would you ground a speaker cable? What would be the purpose of an unterminated shielded cable? many top-level speaker cables uses some kind of shielding. Oh? Examples, plea... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… A shielded speaker cable? I've never seen such a thing in a home installation. To what would the shield be grounded? | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, panzrwagn In every imaginable parameter the XLR is superior to the RCA connector. It's all about the implementation. I've seen some really horrible XLR connectors that I wouldn't want anywhere near my system. On the other hand, I've seen some ... | |
| Streaming Tidal/Qbuzz Vs Internet Radio buellrider97 The sound of these stations Vs Tidal/Qbuzz is very noticeable ... The two brands of radio show a 192 Kbps frequency rate. That’s not just compressed audio, that’s lossy compression, like mp3 files. Qbuzz shows 96 kHz /24 bit. ... |