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| Pass Labs Speaker Choices @shtr74sims Not sure this helps but - It’s all over the map out there - across multiple generations of "gear". To be more helpful, you are gonna need to share a little more with folks here about what model preamplifier/ amplifier and speakers you ... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. @therandyman as for the brand-new tubes, yes give them more play time to settle in as you know, and you also mentioned realizing "having different balanced cables". What is the difference if you can share more... Are these different or the exact ... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. @therandyman While it does not help much in your case already owning the MX123 pre-pro, a group helping another forum member years back with in a hybrid audio / video system were using the MC2500 preamp (with HT pass-thru) paired with the MC275 tu... | |
| Fritz Carrera or other possibilities! @johnc5 Should be good! While I've never heard the Carerra's personally, a few colleagues here have owned them and/or some returned them, to then refer back to them over and over about how much they liked their Fritz speakers. Seems to me the g... | |
| When were the best tube amps made? @fthompson251 That’s cool! Will you be taking the older amp to the VAC factory in Sarasota FL I think it is? For me this is notable testament of what some amp makers will do and others won’t when it comes to not only standing behind their produc... | |
| Apple Music vs Tidal for SQ @mofojo Anyone heard any news on Spotify Hifi. Sure are talking their time! I’m hoping its great since my wife demands to have a Spotify subscription and I demand to have a "lossless" subscription. Since 2017 Spotify has been dragging t... | |
| Cables to settle brightness This week I’m comparing two higher cost digital coax cables from two well known manufacturers. Neither are designed to be passive tone controls. One of the cables allows a little bit more to come through yet it’s smoother with absolutely no digita... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @joshua43214 On the subject of XLR vs RCA I am not adamant about one method being better than the other. It comes down to implementation and design. In your case and components, you know what sounds and works best. The only thing that matter... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @mm1tt77 I don’t disagree, and it does vary by design where more emphasis can be placed in one direction or another. Some of my prior fully balanced dual mono amp gear offered XLR, and my current DAC offers XLR,. However after careful listening I’... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @mm1tt77 Try attenuators, sounds like you would need at least -20 db, maybe - 30 db. If they reduce the issues, give you more flexibility on the volume control, you found and solved the issue. In this case, and with this type of remedy, do ... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster Yep. Reading a test on the Halo May showed this, "The May's maximum output level at 1kHz in NOS, OS, and OS/PCM modes was 5.8V from the balanced outputs, 2.9V from the unbalanced outputs." Looking over my current two DACs and prior three units, a... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @joshua43214 I was reading an application used with Kimber XLR and one ground wire used thus allowing noise. Earlier, was attempting to understand if you only experience the noise issue with XLR only, and not with digital RCA coax. If you already ... | |
| Has anyone ever tried cables made with OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) Copper? @mceljo How many cable manufactures are out there that maintain the same exact design other than the conductor material where a true "all other things being equal" comparison can be made? I know that this is true for Iconoclast by Belden designed... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? Front page of the ASR website actually states this: "This is the forum where we try to impress each other with how much we know about audio. Heavy use of technical jargon is required for participation." jar·gon1, /ˈjärɡən/ definition: "speci... | |
| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster @gs5556 exactly, I brought this up earlier and OP went right back to justifying XLR again instead of re-evaluating this as a serious option, look for lower-gain source and preamp gain particularly with high sensitivity speakers. Try again with RCA... |