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| PS Audio BHK signature preamp I've owned all the BHK line from PS Audio and love the sound the only thing is I have very efficient speakers 96db and the BHK equipment isn't the quietest so the noise was making me crazy. I replaced my BHK preamp with a Boulder preamp that was 4... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit Some things in life you can't have, one of those things is tube sound on a SS component. The answer is AI / DSP wait just a little while and you will be able to tune you system into your perfect warm perfection. | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital There is no record player that has as good of a signal to noise ratio as a good digital recording. Yes there is warm distortion and rumble but records are not in the same category as digital when it comes to accuracy. | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui Congratulations! I was a professional sound engineer for 40 years then I got into audiophile equipment and it wasn't what I thought. It wasn't about accuracy like everyone says because audiophile systems don't sound like professional systems, (I h... | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. Many years ago the acoustics company I worked for was the 4th company to try to put in a sound system in the newly built Crystal Cathedral in So. California. Clearly it was an impossible job and our Lead engineer said they would have to put in sat... | |
| Upgrade speakers or DAC You have made a big mistake not having better speakers all along, your system is like having a 500 hp engine and exhaust through a ½ inch pipe. | |
| Best streamer, don't want Roon, don't want a screen, A DAC is OK but not necessary @philgo01 This is a tough place for EEs. In a digital circuit the great part is the perfect handshake to the next component it's easy to get a 1 or a 0 right that's the glory of digital in a nutshell. Analogue is a really tough signal to get right... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? It is very simple to see the difference cables make, simply do a frequency / amplitude and noise test with the old cable and with the new cable the difference is the difference. These aren't magical impressions that aren't measurable, audio is ver... | |
| You're not a true audiophile unless... I have more than 1M of sound equipment but I don't want to be called an audiophile because I've come to find out being and "audiophile" means you have to believe in things that are not true. It's more than a hobby it's like a cult. I'm sad to say. | |
| Vibration Control In General solid state circuits are not effected by acoustic vibration. The exception is in cheeper ceramic capacitors they can be effected by hi frequency vibration and the dielectric layers separate. One of the highest vibration environments w... | |
| Vibration Control In General solid state circuits are not effected by acoustic vibration. The exception is in cheeper ceramic capacitors they can be effected by hi frequency vibration and the dielectric layers separate. One of the highest vibration environments w... | |
| Vibration Control @nonoise I used the very best professional recording equipment at the time including Nagra, Fostex, and Zaxcom, I've spent millions on sound equipment for location recording. Only the Zaxcom recorders were solid state they were the first company... | |
| Vibration Control @nonoise I do have some experience putting high end recorders and microphones in violently shaking environments in my recording career. When you put a recorder that is solid state with no moving parts you don't have to worry about vibration. In t... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better I started a post about this subject and there were over 69k comments people know active and powered speakers are better in so many ways. powered speakers have amps in them active speakers can be connected to external crossovers and amps passiv... | |
| LAIV Harmony @pynkfloydd I thought exactly the same thing having a little DAC around is a great utility I think I’ll eventually put it into my video editing system until I find my tube DAC. I connected the Harmony DAC to ch 1 (I2S ) and my PSA MK 2 (AES) to... |