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| Power conditioner plugged into computer battery I have used Tripplite line conditioners and UPS.. and even an APC UPS but they make an audio system sound awful!! I used a Tripplite LC1800 and it still limited current. The sound was totally closed in.. and worse yet the power switch went up in f... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2 or Focal Electra 1037 be? If you are happy with the Focal House Sound stick with it. You have the components upstream to enjoy the upgrade.The Wilson Sophia's have a very different presentation and you need to listen to them at a dealer (worth the trip) hopefully your Wils... | |
| Feel let down by your audio software choice? if you need windows software.. Media Monkey Gold and it can sync to Ipods (and pull songs off!) It can play FLAC files and tag them, it can rip also. | |
| Wilson W/P 7 RESISTOR REPLACEMENT ?? Yes their are 3 replaceable resisters in your Watt under the bottom access panel of the Watt. But I can't image you wanting more treble.. You might have cooked one of the resisters and that's why your tweeter is cut... These are part of the design... | |
| ARC Ref3 Bal-SE button..what for? Maybe that's why I thought the Ref 3 sounded thin in my system.... I had a dealer loan without a manual...Thanks for the corrections!Chris | |
| Magnepan new 20.1R and older 20R, sonic? The 20R sound best bi-amped with an active crossover.The 20.1's sound better with a single amp through the passive crossover. These difference might make the choice for you..If the difference between the 3.5 and the 3.6 wasn't enough, then you mig... | |
| ARC Ref3 Bal-SE button..what for? It's for your outputs not the inputs. | |
| Which format to use - mp3 vs. windows lossless, Sfar: Media Monkey gold on the PC will convert on the fly to an IPOD for the PC, plus you can pull your music off an ipod! Great software compared to Itunes.. it also pulls album covers from Amazon. | |
| VSA VR4 jr's with Bryston mono's? You can never have too much power... it's when an amplifier runs out of juice and clips that it damages your speakers.. | |
| Life after Maggies? Try them in the new room, but position you seating position so your head is against the back wall and Mag's 3' off the front wall. Make sure to get some type of corner ceiling treatment (cornbusters) as you will quickly overwhelm the room with vol... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? Michael,Thanks, I need 5-6 drives (750gig drives.) I already have 2.2 TB of space (JBOD) and need to expand that. The Thecus 5200 supports 5 drives for $635.I know the dangers of software raid, but actually O'reilly books are now suggesting softwa... | |
| Power Conditioners Suited to Digital Front End Ngjockey: I used some APC and Tripplite computer voltage stabilizers and battery backups with horrible results... the sound stage completely compressed and folded in... I would recommend staying away from anything computer grade. Plus the Triplite... | |
| Power Conditioners Suited to Digital Front End Pubul57: With just a transport and DAC you will barely be using 50-80watts on a Power Plant 300 and will not need the fan.. if you get over about 160watts you will need the fan which can be replaced with a quiet bearing computer fan. Some tube DAC... | |
| Bluray owners- Which connection to get best sound? Considering that most Receivers or processors have poor analog to Digital converters I would recommend using digital out (Coax over Toslink) and let your processor do the work. Later when HDMI 1.3 becomes the norm your receiver will strip off the ... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? Sufentanil: Thanks for validating what I was leaning towards except for the cost. I know that is the 3ware card I would love to purchase (plus the $129 for the battery pack that makes it like 5 times faster in Raid 5, without risking write caching... |