cymbop
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| Roon Sound Quality I got a nice bump in sound quality when I went from LMS to Roon. And Mark's right; once you use the interface it'll be hard to go back. | |
| Tube amp I use a 38-watt tube integrated on enormous vintage B&Ws that are 91 dB efficient and dip to 3 ohms in the midbass. The speakers were certainly designed to pair with high-current, high-wattage solid state.The combo works for me, though I don'... | |
| Lowering the noise floor In all seriousness, the greatest contributor to the noise floor of your system just might be the refrigerator in your kitchen when its compressor is running. In my old rental house, I would unplug that janky fridge for listening sessions... right... | |
| PS Audio PWT and PWD MK II--recent acquisiton I loooove my PWDII, though I use it with the Bridge II instead of the PWT. Into my integrated, I find the sweetest spot on the volume control between 70 and 78. NativeX and Auto filter. Make sure you've updated the firmware to the latest.Mine's... | |
| Replace PS Audio DLIII + Pass Preamp With Directstream Jr? And cymbop, were you using the analog or digital (to a DAC) outputs of the SBT?Digital out from the SBT. Bridge II slayed it. | |
| Replace PS Audio DLIII + Pass Preamp With Directstream Jr? The DSJ will also allow you to replace your Squeezebox Touch with the Bridge II and run ethernet straight into the back of the DAC. In my PWDII DAC, going from the SBT to the Bridge II was a stunning improvement. | |
| MQA - What is your favorite content? I'm not even a fan of Yes, but the MQA "Heart of the Sunrise" from Fragile made me feel that my system had never sounded better. | |
| Grateful Dead May 77 Box Set Announced Listened to the whole Cornell show last night streamed from TIDAL. Sound quality is really, really good. The overall level is not high and thusasks you to goose your volume knob, and that lack of level compression allows a lot of space in the re... | |
| Time for dedicated outlets! +1 to the 10/3. And buy it yourself at Home Depot; it's thick enough that the electrician will try to convince you that your overkill is silly, but if you just hand it to him he'll have no choice in the matter. :-)Be sure to circle back to let u... | |
| Time for dedicated outlets! Cliff notes: use 10-gauge romex and attach both lines to the same leg of your panel. Use 20-amp breakers and get at some form of decent outlets like the PorterPorts offered by a member here. | |
| Roon vs. Squeezebox Server (Logitech) I went from LMS on a Vortexbox Appliance to Roon on a SmallGreen Sonicorbiter (with flac files on an attached USB drive). DAC is a PS Audio Perfectwave II.Sound quality improvement was impressive. Akin to a DAC upgrade. Relative to Roon, my LMS... | |
| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? More trivia: the Meyer Sound company that made many of the speakers in at the OP's SPAC show was founded by Stanley "Bear" Owsley, who produced much of the LSD that engendered the west coast psychedelic scene... and was the subject Steely Dan's s... | |
| Owens Corning 703 vs. Roxul Safe 'n' Sound? I'm no DIY'er in general but had a decent outcome making 703 panels. They helped tremendously in my room to kill the first-reflection points. I've got a total of four 24x48x2 panels in the room and things are sounding great. I do think that mor... | |
| What is most important part of a system? I think I'll print up a t-shirt that says:IT'S THE TRANSDUCER, STUPID! | |
| Grateful Dead May 77 Box Set Announced Legendary run of dates there. |