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| B&W 803D crossover caps edwyunBecause that route is fraught with just as many variables and complexities. I was going to do that with another previous set of speakers and ended up buying the B&Ws instead.To do what you suggest first you need 3 to six power amps, dep... | |
| A New Reel to Reel Tape Deck? NI suspect all your "pro-sumer" decks are old enough to still be using discrete analog circuitry in the amplification stages. I doubt if a newly designed 2015 R/R deck would use them however. That is simply because the availability of the discrete... | |
| Parasound JC3+ vs. Linn Uphorik phono stages Find a used Spectral DMC-10. They can usually be had for under $2000, were US made in Silicon Valley back in the late 80's, had they best components available and gold plated circuit boards to boot. They are all discrete components Class A, unlike... | |
| Tascam DA-3000 vs Benchmark ADC1 USB I had a chance to do some more testing with the Tascam DR60DmkII.I ran some pink noise spectrum tests on my speakers with a digitally recorded pink noise source file. I had a Shure SM81 mic connected to the mic pre-amp on the Tascam, and I needed ... | |
| A New Reel to Reel Tape Deck? I hear all this, but as an archiving media, hasn't vinyl well outlasted tape? I have original late 60's early 70's vinyl that is still sounding good. Would a R2R tape have lasted that long without severe degradation? And I'm not talking about temp... | |
| Tascam DA-3000 vs Benchmark ADC1 USB There is another potential option if you find 24Bbit/96K is sufficient. It is another Tascam product, but uses discrete Class A transistors on its analog input stage. I have not made a direct sonic comparison, but bought one of these (oh yeah, its... | |
| New floor stand speakers ctsoonerYou are way off base in your comments about B&W using cheap drivers. Unlike many speaker manufacturers, they do not purchase someone else's OEM drivers, but make all the drivers in the 800 series in house. That diamond tweeter, irrespe... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps Over the last few days I have had a chance to complete the mods to my crossovers. Thanks to all for their suggestions.I had to remove the upper bass driver and the mid range FTF driver to get at the crossovers and the wiring. I also removed the tw... | |
| Digital versus Vinyl - Grinnell College Review A very trite treatment of one of the most complex debates in audio. I think there is a post here that goes on for thousands of posts over many years. | |
| Bryston BDP media server a good choice today? rocky...:If you are "computer savy", then the upgrade should not be a big deal. Or, if you have your BDP-1 connected to the internet. If you are neither, and have a software version prior to "Looney Loone 1.75", then you are in for some challenges... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps Stoni:Interesting post. I have been looking at what B&W has been doing with these cross overs in the last few product iterations. Particularly with the capacitors, they have been all over the map, except with that 47 mFd MKP, which is consiste... | |
| New preamp, loss of low freq.? I had a similar experience. Rebuilt some circuitry in my Parasound JC-1 power amps, and the midrange detail was significantly enhanced. But it appeared I had lost bottom end. All my Parasound equipment is direct coupled and uses DC servo controlle... | |
| New format, dislike..... I like it, as the old format was like using Windows 3.0.But its a bit too "vertical". With wide aspect screens and monitors, why don't they spread the text out horizontally more? Then there is less scrolling to see responses. And I hope this forma... | |
| Bryston BDP media server a good choice today? I have a BDP-1. Just upgraded it with new firmware (Manic Moose 2.20) with the great help from Chris at Bryston. The new version of the MPD (music player dameon) is the best I have heard on the BDP-1.I hear they are now making the BDP-3. It has so... | |
| Tascam DA-3000 vs Benchmark ADC1 USB DTCCould you clarify that point about the corrections? Are you saying that at the end of the process you have two files, the original and a corrected version?Or is VS needed to apply the corrections during playback? |