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Krell Showcase preamp , how to connect headphones ?
davef1959I did try connecting the headphone amp to the preamp L-R output jacks. Still not working. I'm not sure you understand how this should work. Or, maybe I'm not understanding you properly.The headphone preamp input should be connected to t... 
The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance
jagjag... Acrolink 4030 power cable from breaker to socket, and from socket to device does it for me.That cable doesn't appear to be rated or intended for in-wall use. Do you know otherwise?  
How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing!
geoffkait... a relatively inexpensive way to boost system performance is to support all heavy furniture in the room on cones ...There are limits to what I'd do in the pursuit of fidelity, and this suggestion is an example. I want my listening ro... 
Streamers with best apps?
wsrrswApple Music and iTunes before that are/were the gold standard.I couldn't disagree more. iTunes was bloated, restricted, cumbersome software. Once you tried something such as JRiver's Media Center, you'd never go back.iTunes started as Sound... 
Options for converting CD rips
afcchris ... is there any point in using converters to get the files from mp3 to flac ...Not really. MP3s are compressed lossy files, and data once discarded cannot later be recovered from the same file. 
Krell Showcase preamp , how to connect headphones ?
I do not think you want to click on "tape monitor" because that will route the "tape in" to the system. When set to "source," the tape out - in your case, your headphone preamp - should receive the output of whatever other input is selected.The ta... 
Point of diminishing return for a DAC
david_tenPercentages require a fixed point for a calculation. None of you, and none of us, have that reference point. Exactly! I could never understand claims in audio such as a 10 percent improvement, or trying to reach the last X percent.  
How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing!
teo_audiothe hack is trying to do harm, while looking like he isn’t. Posts full of projected and suppositional logic, and so on.Yup. Some come here to talk about audio, others apparently have other goals and that includes disruption.What is so-oo... 
Why is the Audio Research SP8 so highly regarded?
I had an SP-8 and then an SP-10 before getting an SP-11. I sold the SP-11 to a friend who still uses it and it still sounds great.These are all fine preamplifiers. They come from the era when LP was the dominant source, so they all have excellent ... 
Refurbished/Rebuilt Reel To Reel Tape Deck
What do you plan on doing with a reel-to-reel machine if you buy one? 
Cartridge loading
rauliruegasI read all your posts and after several years you never posted true evidence/facts ... You can do it very simple: take 2-3 LP tracks and give us as examples of your posts ... bla, bla, bla, etc is not enough with out true foundation ... 
diy tangential tonearms
drbarney1 The tracking error is reported to only go up to at most 2 degrees before the servo applies correction, verses 15 to 10 degrees for a pivoted tonearm. Hmmm, I’m not aware of any pivoted arm that would have tracking error that high, except... 
Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?
profI haven’t blind tested my CJ amps.If you please: What’s your point?I have blind tested some items, not others ...Thanks for clarifying. I really wasn't trying to make any point at all, I truly didn't understand what seemed to be conflicting ... 
Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?
prof I love the sound of my CJ tube amplification ... Never done a "blind test" ...  I swoon over the sound of my "crazy expensive" (to the average joe), cartridge etc. No talk of blind testing, all subjective. That's quite a surprise, given... 
Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?
audiozenologySome would say it is more akin to religion. Lacking understanding or knowledge, one will make up an explanation to fill in the gaps.There are also fundamentalist zealots, who insist their infallible sacred texts reveal all the truths...