dancub
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| How do you add remote control to a preamp, here's how. I have a Luminous Audio axiom. Don't use it a lot but Tim Stinson's little boxes are great examples of "less is more". Available with a remote. However, the base unit like mine is pretty much invisible when it's in the signal path. When you pop t... | |
| Battle of the Older DAC DACs are the one place where I cheap out. Digital tech is evolving so rapidly, that the cheap stuff today performs reasonable well against the better older stuff. Plus it seems to have attracted lots of entrepreneural spirit, i.e. inventive and d... | |
| Subwoofer Advice @navyachts Well, one of the things, for me, is that things come and go. Experimenting - the journey if you will - is what I've really got off on. Also, I've bought most of my speaker gear in bad shape and repaired it, so the investment is low. OT... | |
| Subwoofer Advice @navyachts Sure. First, I have a small, low ceiling basement room. Large, handlaid stone foundation walls. Minor treatments (rug, fiberglas batting in rafters) but except for near field listening, it's been a slog to make any of my setup(s) sound ... | |
| Subwoofer Advice I have two SV-1000 in a small room, sorta near the corners. I know but the corner thing is what SVS's manual recommended. OTOH, I've now set the things up with Dirac Live correction and don't seem to get much uglyness. SVS, when I bought the unit... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album Siri's Svale Band – Blackbird I first heard the the cut "Don't explain" at the SF HiFI show (1970s?) in the Joseph Audio room. Had gone to the show to visit a co-worker's room (Siegfired Linkwitz) but was so taken by the rich dimensionality of th... | |
| Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it? Kef LS50 Meta Their "improvement" was in their tweeter. I'm acoustically impaired above 2k. Pretty little things though... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system Loki => Lokius => miniDSP SHD = FUN & PLEASURE Isn't that what it's all for? Actually it was Dirac I wanted to play with but all other stuff was huge fun. | |
| Is it worth it? DAC question Ditto on the "no HDMI" connector. Not sure what you mean by "external dc adapter" , . . maybe the power wall wart for the DAC? @soix is right, need to connect a USB cable 'tween the Node and DAC. @kennyc also right. Even if current set up bree... | |
| Is it worth it? DAC question Have Bluesound Node 2i and iFi ZEN One Signature DAC. The ZEN sounds better (richer/fuller). | |
| Hearing aids for audiophiles. Delightful conversation! I've recently gone down two paths since I have significant high freq loss (3 audiology tests over 10 years) and decades of tinnitus. 1) an OTC hearing aid (Jabra) which works but is a bit of a black box in terms of heari... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Didn't see Charlie Byrd or Laurindo Almeida. | |
| Its not vinyl To add to my (surprising for me) non-verbose comment, I'm a product designer by trade, with decades in hi-tec R&D. I love the mechanistic nature of analog, the look and feel of the stuff. Don't get much of that from my digital toys. | |
| Its not vinyl Own 2 TTs and 3000+ records. Adore my digital server w/ Qobuz. Analog - for the lovely sound & fun at garage sales, Goodwills & record stores. Digital - for "new to me" music exploration Update: own 2 systems in same room, one SS based... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? Rega Planar 2 - $19.00 - Goodwill in Los Gatos AR XA - $39.00 - Yard Sell in Exeter Bryston 3B SST - $1000 - Radio station going out of biz - Cape Cod Klipsch 600M - $200 - Seller's GF beat with chain - eBag Thiel .5 - $60 - Some guy on CL - Bosto... |