douglas_schroeder
Responses from douglas_schroeder
| Power Cords - Just Say Yes You are the newest poster boy for Getting Over the Pride and Trying Cables. Your frank admission is helpful for several reasons; one is that you admit pride played a central role in preventing you from actually trying a comparison. It should be ob... | |
| New level of ridiculousness Aaudio showed a SOTA $300K+ rig at RMAF. An $8K power bar is a waste in a $25-40K rig. In a $300K rig it is 2.6% of total system cost, or less. Simply addressing the question from a system quality standpoint, if I were building a cost-no-object ri... | |
| When's enough, enough? "Just wondering why when we achieve a sound we like, do we keep looking for more?"Because there is more. Your question is the equivalent of asking, "Why climb higher mountains?" You don't have to, but you won't get the mountain top experience eith... | |
| Best Upgradeable DAC ? In principle the question of upgradable DACs seems to me as a bit of a conundrum. With the price of some very fine DACs in the $1K range, it would depend on the affordability of the upgrade plus the shipping involved. If an upgrade were offered wh... | |
| EE Minimax DAC repair There would be a good chance that Bill O'Connell of Morninstar Audio, the Distributor of EE products, would have a competent repair facility close by if you sent the unit back. My guess is that the diagnostics would be much less time consuming, an... | |
| EE Minimax DAC repair Daveaudiony, I have been thinking this over, frustrated that you are having a bad experience. It troubles me that someone tried a method I suggested and is having a problem. Imo, little or distorted output means the unit will need repair. It sound... | |
| Best Electrostatic loudspeaker? I just finished reviewing the King Sound King III for Dagogo.com. The article is not yet published, but the speaker will be on demo at RMAF this weekend. Distributed by Performance Devices. I consider the King III the best sounding Panel speaker b... | |
| Sonic Diff between a 6' 1.8M & 4' 1.25M PC If you were to use them without a side by side comparison in a very good system you would not be able to tell the sonic difference. If you replaced it you would not "notice" the change once you acclimated to it within a very short period of time. ... | |
| Importance of Soundstage/Imaging The article is nice theory but of marginal value in helping to establish fine audio systems. | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Oh, brother... see what happens when I step away for a few moments! ;) I looked back at the past few days and, Woa! What a turn of the topic! But that's not really surprising given the collective curiosity and intellectual force that is Audiogon! ... | |
| One Small Step ... That Transforms Your System Yes, I have had the experience where one "step" so to speak has the power to confer far more than expected change to a rig. In fact I wrote about it and have been using it as I described in my Audio Blast article on Discrete Opamp Rolling the East... | |
| 32-bit dac My understanding is the NAD uses the extra bits for volume control, not processing. | |
| "Splitter" used for Monoblock Operation? I haven't taken the time to read all posts/links. But if the question is to use either dual cables from Preamp output OR a splitter from one channel I would put my money on the dual set of cables being superior. My advice; avoid splitters as often... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? It needs to be stated that there WILL be a tradeoff for all this "holographic" sound; the trade off will be a loss of detail/defintion. It is impossible to keep interrupting/adding to the signal path and have an absolute increase in definition and... | |
| Curtains to control high frequency If you use vertical blinds I strongly suggest some with fabric on them vs. a solid vinyl. |