daverz
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| Rogue Audio Cronus ...what speakers do you love ? I'm running a sort of scaled up version of the original poster's system: Rogue M-180s into Vandersteen Quatros. I'm using KT-120 tubes in place do the stock KT-90s. I wonder how a Cronus Magnum with KT-120s would compare to the M-180s. | |
| bat vk 3i vs arc ls2b BAT still has the VK-P3 listed on their site. I have one in my 3ix. It's a fantastic phono section. | |
| If you had $2000 to upgrade this system... I think I'd explore other cartridges first. Not that the Stanton is bad -- I don't know anything about it -- it just takes some trial and error to find a cartridge that's "just right". One rately gets it on the first try. If I had $5k, I'd upgrade... | |
| Different cart, much more sensitive to footsteps The isolation is probably not very effective if the stand itself is affected by footfalls. You could try moving the stand against a different (preferably load-bearing) wall. Or you could install a turntable shelf.As for the arm/cart resonance bein... | |
| Solid state warm up? I only meant to qualify my subjective impression of the VK-250SE by saying that I never left mine on 24/7. Again, you've offered no justification for your claim that the 250SE can't adequately drive these speakers.I've no doubt that the OP is hear... | |
| Solid state warm up? "It's not the best model of VK and more than certainly it can't do 300/4Ohms"Says some random anonymous dude on the internet. Unless you can back this up I see no reason not to trust BAT's specs, especially given the massive power supply of the 25... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox Touch Question Is the trailer that large that you can't just wire the connection from the laptop to the Squeezebox?As for whether it will work without being connected to the Internet, try unplugging your connection to the Internet and see if you can still stream... | |
| Vandersteen M5-HPB I use a voltmeter with the probes hooked up to the speaker outputs and some test tones to test the crossover settings. I haven't tried using single-ended adapters, but as long as the resulting frequency response is in the ballpark, you should be O... | |
| An interesting Digital vs. Analog experience I don't think the problem is that digital detractors have not heard good digital playback. They just *prefer* the sound of Lp playback. The only problem is when the bogus arguments start to fly about why Lp playback is technically superior ("infin... | |
| CD Ripping software "And so is a $49 CD player from Radio Shack "If I had to guess at what you're trying to say, you seem to feel that FLAC is "cheap" like a Ratshack CDP. This says a lot about your biases, but nothing about FLAC. | |
| CD Ripping software "Let me say this again; there is a good sound quality difference between "lossless" formats, and WAV is best, meaning it is closest to the original."FLAC is as exactly as close to the original as WAV is. They both produce the same exact PCM data. ... | |
| CD Ripping software The text you quote doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. He's talking about how much we can compress a stream, and indeed the amount of FLAC compression possible depends on the type of data in audio files. He's not saying that FLAC does so... | |
| CD Ripping software If you are really hearing audible differences I'd say there was something wrong with your playback chain, not with the format. | |
| CD Ripping software No it's not a must. A FLAC file has the same data. It's like saying you must leave your Word files unzipped if you want the best textual quality. | |
| CD Ripping software But mapman is [i]not[/i] right about EAC being "old and unsupported". The last release was a couple weeks ago. There's a well-trafficked support forum. Why give out misinformation like that when it takes a few seconds to check the website?@Lostbea... |