devinplombier
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| Crossover and Wiring Upgrade Cardas solder excellent sound and has flux rosin built in flows nice , Donot use a solder pen spend $100+ on a good-solder station +1 on both counts. Cardas solder is actually quite good, albeit not inexpensive (the cheapest source as of this ... | |
| AliExpress order issues Same here, only good experiences. Their website is a mess to deal with though. | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? @lanx0003 One thing we can agree on, I think, is that whether standalone or integrated to an amp or to a DAC, a preamp or preamp stage is always involved. Sound quality notwithstanding, I have analog sources I need to switch, and I prefer discr... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Instead of retreating to the same old refrains, try to find explanations for why individuals hear differences with a multitude of audio streaming devices. @sns In many instances, those differences are heard in systems that are not galvanicall... | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? There are two things here. 1. DACs capable of directly driving power amps obviously incorporate some kind of line stage (preamp) circuitry, allowing them to output the voltage required to do so. Without it, they wouldn't be able to drive a power... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Anyone who holds the mistaken belief that cables supporting TCP transmissions, routers, network switches and the like can make a difference in sound quality should be required to read the following before opining further: http://units.folder101.c... | |
| Open Reel Curious Using a reel to reel deck to preserve rare vinyl on tape is certainly a reasonable use of the technology, especially when one wishes to avoid the AD conversion inherent to ripping. Asking a question of whether / how dubbing vinyl to tape might af... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Statistically, an Audiophile is more likely to experience a Marian apparition than an Ethernet-related SQ improvement. | |
| Open Reel Curious The reason is he is borrowing them so free music but for the cost of tape. @dishman442 Maybe that made sense in the 70s, but now (a) blank tape costs more than the LP being recorded on it, and (b) music is (almost) free to stream anyway. So ... | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? BTW: absent serious but rare impedance mismatches all that a pre adds is more distortion/ colouring. It sounds like your experience may be limited to budget preamps. I would advise auditioning high-end units. An excellent, thoughtfully chosen p... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Once, one of those I-trust-my-ears guys was going on about how he didn’t like the sound of fibre Ethernet cables: He claimed they sounded "glassy". Glassy as in... fibre? Fiber? Fiberglass?? You can’t make that up. @retiredaudioguy to answer yo... | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? We already have | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? It is possible to have lossless digital gain control. Audio DAWs use 32 bit floating point signal processing to achieve this when mixing. Most definitely, but this thread is about budget digital and YouTube videos. | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? Good thing the senile dutchman revealed to Audiophiles that doubling the input voltage could cause clipping. Who wudda thunk? | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? +1 for 100% Only digital components meant to drive a power amp directly (no preamp needed) have a volume control. In most cases that digital volume control is cheap trash. The more you turn it down the worse it sounds, hence the advice to keep i... |