douglas_schroeder
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| Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny When I was a boy I thought the Radio Shack receiver I bought for approx. $80 was wildly, insanely expensive; it took all my money and I didn't have speakers! I had to pull a 12" and a 10" full range driver from two console stereos to use as speake... | |
| Bookshelf speaker with electrostatic sound This may be too late for the OP, and I'm baffled why I didn't come up with it sooner, given I reviewed the larger sibling for Dagogo.com. The Eminent Technology LFT-16A is a hybrid dynamic/magnetic planar. It would be worlds closer in terms of the... | |
| Here comes the solar maximum. I can see that if you're running certain types of gear you may have a concern. There have been solar storms historically which have been so violent that they caused telegraph machines to crackle, and when there is a CME with enough power a lot of ... | |
| The Irrational But Efficacious CD Tweak It failed my Law of Efficacy miserably. I was not impressed by it. I find most methods/tweaks of improvement of sound which require re-treatment to typically be of marginal worth. | |
| Percentage of cable cost To ensure that you have a very high probablity of attaining mediocre sound you'll want to abide by the 10% rule. To attain superior sound you'll have to think differently. | |
| Listing of Opamps for EE Minimax DAC Plus The results with the original Minimax DAC in the office rig are as expected, beyond expectations. I have rolled in the Dexa duals into the U1/U2 positions and the Burson singles into the U6/U7 spots and the performance uniformly elevated across th... | |
| Bad CDP but good transport? I would be interested in further discussion of Tgrisham's point regarding professional cdp/recorders with superb transports. Anyone else have experience with such? Brands? Models? TIA | |
| Frequency Response? Yes, the woofer does try to play lower frequencies, unless there is a crossover cutting off those frequencies lower than a certain point, say 30Hz. Usually the bass driver is left to attempt to play those lower frequencies, but is less precise as ... | |
| Listing of Opamps for EE Minimax DAC Plus Following up on my threat (actually, a promise) to put the discrete Opamps in my office rig, the sound is good enough that for all but the most ardent perfectionists it would be quite acceptable. My office rig: Sonos with a Buffalo .5G NAS for my ... | |
| Listing of Opamps for EE Minimax DAC Plus I have been waiting impatiently for my Discrete Opamp Rolling article to be published at Dagogo.com; now it's up for the world to see. It is my latest foray into Opamp rolling, this time with the lovely discrete Opamps. A couple of notes: There wa... | |
| A B Cable comparison It's an obvious form of comparison, like putting two different bookshelf speakers on L/R channels. But you will want to compare pairs for your final evaluation. I would never use this method as my final determinant of sound quality and would not r... | |
| Amp design logic Can I take a VW Beetle and use superior parts and get a Bugatti Veyron? Because, if it's that easy, I think I'll do it! :) | |
| Ever heard of, any opinions on, these speakers? Here's my off the cuff shot at an analysis of the speaker (BTW, anyone here been watching Top Shot? It's a show on Netflix in which 16 marksmen/markswomen compete to see who's best at a wide variety of skills with an assortment of weapons. Very en... | |
| Great Cables ... That Get Little Attention Yeah, you'd better really watch out, because that "Cable Break Down" thing is REALLY BAD! This is an undocumented, unidentified, unsubstantiated REALITY that happens just after the 300 hour BURN IN time period. What's really tough is trying to gau... | |
| Cause of Muddled Middle? Ae88925, your problem is a common one; introductory level systems often exhibit similar problems. I used a tremendous amount of affordable gear assembling rigs for about ten years, and a system at such a price point will always have serious shortc... |