daverz
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| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? @TrebejoI just don't hear it. I've done a lot of listening at various levels of digital attenuation with a wide variety of lossless files, and I don't hear any ill effects. Can you be specific about what I should listen for or give some technical ... | |
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? The Vandersteen highpass filter is actually not very accurate for my amps. The closest I can get is with the dipswitches at the 100kOhm setting, which gives a drop of about -2.25dB @ 100Hz, and the slope is steeper than it should be. Disappointing... | |
| I NEED a tone control to control bass. You could try Auralex subdudes or speakerdudes:http://www.auralex.com/search.asp?cx=015239128890725801758%3Afenfza4vrw4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=dudes&sa=Search#323 | |
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? I found going direct from my DAC to my amps and using my Squeezebox volume control to be a huge improvement in frequency extension and transparency. I can even do the highpass filtering needed by my Quatros in the digital domain on the Squeezebox ... | |
| Sound stage, front, middle, or behind your speaker 7 feet? Not 6½?With my Quatros, the soundstage is very dependent on the electronics. I definitely prefer it to be behind the speakers and for the soundstage to "float" free of the speakers themselves. But the illusion can easily collapse with the ... | |
| what is used to store music from multiple cd's I recommend a Squeezebox Touch and the DAC of your choice. You would need a computer to run the Squeezebox server software and to serve the music files ripped from your CDs (which could be your existing computer), and this would need to be connect... | |
| Are the CD'S days numbered? I still buy a lot of CDs. But I always rip them to flacs on my Squeezebox server as soon as I get them. | |
| Help me find violin and cello related I recommend any of Tianwa Yang's Sarasate recordings. Here's a good place to start:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002N5KEFQA few more recommendations:Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas - Kremer/Argerich on DGSzymanowski: Violin Concertos - Kulka on EMI (not Nax... | |
| Help with Playing FLAC files XLD does an excellent job converting flacs. | |
| Squeezebox touch sounds better than benchmark dac1 @Mr_bill, you probably have better eyesight than the average middle-aged person.@Ncarv, I highly recommend iPeng. I never use the Touch's screen or remote. There's also an Android app.My impression is that the Touch screen is meant to be used by s... | |
| logitech touch - tech success...marketing flop? I assume the OP means brick & mortar stores when he asks about retailers. For example, my local Best Buy did not carry any Squeezeboxes last time I checked. | |
| Must Hear Speakers in $10K range When I did the speaker shopping thing a couple years ago, the most impressive to me were Aerial, Vandersteen, and the PSB Synchrony Ones, though admittedly, the Synchronys didn't really impress me until they were hooked up to a really good amp (a ... | |
| Vandersteen and NOT BI WIRE---Your thoughts Oh, that's embarassing, how did that post get there. Please ignore it, I can't delete it. | |
| Vandersteen and NOT BI WIRE---Your thoughts I remember not being ultimately convinced by the 803D in the showroom. The tweeter called too much attention to itself. I wonder what tube amplification would have done for it.But with the 802D and up you're in a whole different ballpark, I think. | |
| Benchmark dac - why such diverging opinions? "Musical" is just another way of saying "I like it", isn't it? Even "it sounds like live music" is totally subjective; everyone takes away something different from the experience of live music.One thing that's only been touched on briefly so far t... |