curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| Tune of the Day Dave Mason, Mystic Traveler. | |
| Ethernet streaming @joc3021 I’d go with separate components. So when I was looking for a new integrated amplifier, I saw one that had a DAC and it could stream. I thought, wow, this is really cool, but when I got it all hooked up, there was barely a streamer and... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? The long and the short of it is it’s your ears. If you’re happy with a $250,000 rig, great. If you’re happy with a transistor am/fm from the sixties, great! Don’t let anyone try to influence you in this. Trust in your ears. Trust in yourself. | |
| What do you hear with a better/bigger power supply and output capacitors in same amp? Working with electronics is like baking, you have to follow the recipe. If you change the caps by adding more or bigger it’s about the same as changing the amount of baking powder you add to the mix. It might not do much or it might change ever... | |
| playing "top-damaged" CDs ? @richalan A nickel says that 99.9% of them will play just fine. I also have the 6000cdt and it’s great, but I’d still try to get off as much of the paper as you can! All the best. | |
| Mobile Fidelity 24k CDs @goofyfoot I believe the Gold Archival CD’s have a life expectancy of three hundred years. I personally won’t be around to find out. Why not?😀 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jutta Hipp, Cool Hipp. | |
| Mobile Fidelity 24k CDs @tattooedtrackman congratulations on your upgrades! MOFI is MOFi. Having said that, the biggest difference between the gold and the aluminum layers, is that there is a small chance that the aluminum ones degrade in time, but the gold one’s pre... | |
| Tune of the Day Dave Clark Five, Glad All Over. | |
| Tune of the Day Patto, Hold Me Back. https://youtu.be/Wt0wjrF523s | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sadik Hakim, Witches, Goblins, Etc. | |
| Tune of the Day U2, Bullet The Blue Sky. | |
| noise on the line It’s more than just turning off the lights, it’s everything using electricity. Air conditioners, refrigerators, televisions as well as fluorescent lights, LED lights, can all dirty up your electric. | |
| I have perfected my network for the nth time @singingg Thanks for your very thoughtful post, but I do have questions. The biggest one is with ethernet cables being bidirectional, how can switching them directionally change the sound? My system is using three Cat seven cables in the sound... | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? Most hifi equipment is aesthetically boring. When all is said and done, an amplifier is a box, a DAC is a box and a speaker is a box. I let my ears and wallet steer me. My KEF Reference 5’s are tall skinny boxes that I bought wi... |