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| What I have found - Makes a good Cable ! I recently built a two foot pair of cables for turntable to equalizer where the signal voltage is about 50mv. Capacitance between signal wire and cable shield was the most important parameter. My last build was 15pf per foot and the improved cla... | |
| new Meitner MA3 hit the rack today I use the internal streamer in the MA3. I had an NS1 connected via Toslink, glass cable, to the MA3 and could not determine a difference. | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? Garbage in equals garbage out. I have good vinyl playback now and records I do not like go to the dump. Bad digital gets deleted from the NAS. | |
| The best way to start adding A=analog to my system Introducing vinyl playback can lead to substantial expense. My first action would be to upgrade the digital playback. Put the CDs on a NAS (with SSD) and get a recent streamer/DAC (eg Meitner MA3). If still wanting vinyl playback be aware in ad... | |
| which turntable for the future? The Michell turntables can be improved by installing a kit from Gert Pedersen, https://www.pedersensgyro.dk/ I installed Gert's kit for the Orbe SE. Complete change of the TT for the better. Otherwise I think the Kuzma Stabi R is interesting. | |
| Why still USB 2.0? I expect if USB 3.x was lower noise than 2.0 it would be in use. | |
| Subwoofer between speakers? I once tried an eight cubic foot bass between the mains. The large box affected the sound waves and killed the soundstage. | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please I had been using a single 15" woofer for about 45 years, either sum L+R or just use R. Neither are correct as each channel should have a woofer or more. The electronic filter for low pass was 36Hz at 18db per octave. Full signal went to the Quad... | |
| Ayre Acoustics MXR-Twenty and KX-5 Twenty owners... I suggest you consider the Meitner MA3 streaming DAC. I use one into a KX-5 Twenty. | |
| Has your system evolved in the past 10 years? In my main system only the Quad ESL 63 main speakers, a modified Michell Orbe SE turntable (with updated arm and cartridge), and MD FM tuner remain. The rest is new and improved. | |
| Upgrading ET-2 tonearm to something better Clearaudio have three tangential arms. I have not seen them. Another approach is put a DS Audio (optical transducer) in your arm, as I have done with my ET-2. Tangential is good for optical transducers because the skating can be well controlled. | |
| Rooftop solar panels impact on audio SQ Austinpop at audiophilestyle.com described adding a Tesla system to his home. URLs are https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/the-audio-impact-of-solar-panels-and-battery-backup-introduction-installation-initial-listen-r1058/ https://a... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? I have been there with an ETHERregen, power, and external clock. It made a difference in sound from the DAC (Meitner MA1) if I used a wired interface, eg AES/EBU, from the EMM NS1 to the DAC. If I used Toslink with a DH Labs glass master cable a... | |
| mcontrol: change in behavior? It is the Linn extensions to UPNP/DLNA that support multi-track playback without intervention but I do not know how you have lost that support. | |
| What do you guys think of adding a subwoofer to this system? It is best to use a crossover with low pass to the subwoofer and high pass to the mains. That means preamp/amp instead if integrated. Try just low pass to a subwoofer and complete signal to mains. If you cannot get a good integration then you know... |