daledeee1
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| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. I am considering a power supply board and linear power supply from PD Creative.in my Node 2i. About $280 from Poland. Can't play with the big boys. | |
| DISCUSSION: "It only comes out at night". Does anyone else have this experience!? I worked at a plant that used 20 megawatts power. We would use a transformer and run 480V through the plant. We would see spikes of 600V. So yes, our grid is not a smooth thing. Air conditioners are notorious for ground faults. Dirt in circui... | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? If my DAC is reading 24/192, that could be fudged by a music service? | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- Time Life Christmas. Great collection including Burl Ives, Roger Whitaker, Elvis, gene Autry. Bing Crosby. There are several different versions . But this one we like best. Well recorded. | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps Building my system, I wanted components that just played what was there. The solid state preamp quit. I have horn speakers with a DAC that puts out 2.0V. My amp is at full output with 1.25V. I worked with Vacuum Tube Audio and have a passive t... | |
| Finally Learned: Subs serve much larger role than adding more low bass I've had two subs for about twenty years. Relieving the main speaker othe main speakers of the bottom octaves has several bebefits. Less excursion of the woofer, lowering distortion. It also takes load off main speaker amp. And of course bette... | |
| Live music you have attended that left impact....perhaps better than you expected. Fleetwood Mac 1976 Stevie Nicks and Co. Awesome Santana at same concert Return to Forever. Probably #1 for me. 5th row center in our small concert hall. Excellent sound and acoustics. Four top musicians! Weather Report(2X) another fantastic... | |
| New Order fans? They were in the "second" wave of electronic music for me(after Eno, Kraftwerk) and they are pioneers in club music. I remember Blue Monday. My friend at the record store did not like it. He said "sounds like a stack of quarters stacked on the ... | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ Got my speakers. They were horns, cause that's what I had before. These are much better. But when I put them in two years ago, I had lots to do. Get the digital right. Treat the room. Move speakers around. Adjust subs. Still, it wasn't qui... | |
| Great song to test bass Donald Fagan Tomorrow's GirlsBryan Ferry Chosen OneGrace Jones imaging is incredible as wellThe Fenlands Paul Reido. Room filling pipe organ. Reference RecordingsMandelorian ThemeBlade Runner 2049. Theme | |
| What is the latest greatest word in isolation footers for amps? stands? Herbie's Audio Labs makes several styles. These are made out of a polymer. There are even some you can put under each level of your rack. For speakers my size Townsend Podiums are over $2600. | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Late 60's Joni Mitchell. Excellent, intimate. The timbre of her voice, the superb guitar. Both hard to record properly as well as a playback system to come close. Later with Jaco pastorius should sound live.Dreams Fleetwood Mac. Instrument se... | |
| Why are there no tube televisions anymore? I remember our town of 1000 had two TV repair guys. They charged $5 to come to our place to put new tubes in the TV. Today there are no repairman in that town. That explains a lot | |
| On ''what there is'' I thought at was MC. Could it be Einstein. Maybe the two are like in kind. | |
| I agree with Keef You go MC. For decades, it was incremental gains. Now things are changing fast. |