davide256
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| 2011 Mac Mini - Is SSD worth it? I didn't percieve any advantage having the music on an SSD vs HD in a PC setup; i didn't hear any in A/B testing. Having your OS drive be an SSD is where the gain is... less opportunity for jitter due to multitasking. I'd expect same in Mac enviro... | |
| My system's high frequencies hurt my ears I wouldn't assume its speakers yet. I fixed a like issue with my tube gear by upgrading capacitors at critical points; teflon caps are great for natural sound. | |
| Prima luna Owners - What Speakers are you using Prima Luna Prologue Premium Integrated with Magnepan 1.7's. Took about 60 days for the pre amp part to break in. Plenty of power for a 20x20 room and no lack of base with appropriate interconnects and power cables.Swapped the EL34's out for KT88's... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP jazzdrummer I haven't really detected any difference but on general principle think the jumpers were a bad idea, only put there for systems that were too bright, needing the resistor. | |
| I tried a cheap cartridge and I LIKE IT tobes... that arm tube looks very much like the Grace 707 design I used to own.... which sucked with Grado. I have a modified Rega 301 now and its ok with a Grado Reference but its still not an optimal arm match. The easy way to tell if you have a... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP you actually don't need to buy anything to bypass the magnepan 1.7 tweeter jumper. Just remove the 4 screws holding the plate onto the speaker, take a wrench and remove the nut and wire on the back of the jumper on 1 side, put the nut back on. The... | |
| I tried a cheap cartridge and I LIKE IT I would agree that TT is key to dynamics, bass and noise floor. However the cartridge is basically akin to the lens of a telescope, it colors and affects resolution of reproduction. My suspicion is that your light weight arm is why the other cartr... | |
| USB cables no conductor is perfect... unless its a super conductor at close to 0 degrees kelvin. So all of audio science for wires is really about eliminating conductor non linearities at room temperature. The hardest wave to reproduce on a metal conductor i... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? I hadn't expected immediate improvement using the VCaps, noe the less I got one. While theres still a long break in time ahead, Im finding on every piece that has percussive bass there is much deeper bass. Bass drum is now a thunderous joy to list... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? After weighing pro's and con's I decided to go with the Prologue Premium integrated and bought separately cryo treated Genalux KT-88's (the EL34's just didn't cut it). The PV10A beats the Prologue for pre when feed thru the home theater inputs... ... | |
| USB cables I appreciate Elberoth2's comment... I have the Vlink feeding a PS Audio DLink III and don't find it provides the same high frequency " air" and deep bass from music server as I can get with digital from a Linn Genki CD player. Looks like time to f... | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD dbpoweramp has an add on DSP that allows you to rip HDCD to 20 bit format file. Use that for ripping and you don't need HDCD decoding in the DAC. Its what I do with all of my Reference Recording CD's. | |
| HDMI dembedder option for DAC use? what caught my attention was the thread assertion that the Oppo players will sense whether the HDMI device supports DSD and convert to PCM since the HD-570 does not, at a higher bit rate than CD. Agreed that DSD to a standard DAC doesn't work. Her... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? I've replaced the phono output caps as planned with the Solens. But in the mean time i've also upgraded my DAC. So once again the PV10A is doing some things well (tonal colors) but direct to amp from DAC is superior for fine detail and low bass. A... | |
| Mistracking in all liklihood 1 of two things is occurringa) cartridge linked mistracking is occurring. If you have had the stylus for a while it could be worn out. If the stylus is low on hours of play it could be a compliance mismatch between tonearm mass an... |