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| Wild Fires, Air Purifiers and Sound Systems My accoustic and electric engineer friends have told me only to use ferrite if I am hearing electrical noise. Given how clean my electricity is, I will keep this in mind but probably don’t need to. Of course I have not yet gotten a unit to deal wi... | |
| Wild Fires, Air Purifiers and Sound Systems Oh, and of course all the stores are sold out of filters for the time being. I will be in great shape for the next fire, God help us all. | |
| Wild Fires, Air Purifiers and Sound Systems Hi Erik,First, thanks. Yes, the furnace stuff is in good shape. The HCAC vented part of the home is smoke free and healthy. My listening room, on the other hand, used to be a covered patio. When we enclosed it, we didn't add HVAC because it frankl... | |
| Think fast: What would you take? Daddog, glad you are safe. To all my fellow Oregonians, I hope we all make it through, and that the rains come a day early. I try to remind myself that apart from climate change etc, we have more forest fires out west because we are still blessed ... | |
| Think fast: What would you take? In Portland here. All my documents are in order. 5 containers of 5 gallons water each. Cash. Clothes. Toiletries. The cat. My wedding album. My mother’s wedding photo. A couple of irreplaceable Paintings. Laptops. Maybe I would take my tricked out... | |
| ~$15K floorstanders: opinions sought I can’t speak to system synergy. Instead, here are speakers I have listened to, really enjoyed and that are attempting something aesthetically. Not all are to my visual taste but that is a highly subjective front. Some have been mentioned here. Pr... | |
| ls possible to make digital audio sound like analog/vinyl I can’t comment, because I have no scientific knowledge of 33 cycles having such an impact. As for the religious suggestion, that’s just plain silly. Trusting any of the gospels to provide accurate dating, given how much later they were recorded/e... | |
| Why so many Hegel's for sale? @highend666, having listened to the Hegels and the Nad Master M33, I would take a Devialet over both, and Naim Uniti Nova over those three, thank you very much. So as always, you pay your money... | |
| Focal Headphone Repairs? I am so sorry to hear about your poor and Inexcusable experience. I am grateful that 6 month in, my Stellias are working well and sound delightful. But now I am worried—what will my recourse be if a $3000 set of cans has problems? | |
| Analog or Digital and why? @jjss49 , interesting that you went with the analogy of food and particularly comfort food. Yes, there is no doubt that many people listen to old familiar music to avoid encountering anything new or challenging. As a former chef, I both understood... | |
| What other hobby... Ceramics is pretty close to infinite. Humans have been making pottery for 50,000+ years and have barely scratched the surface. We have only begun to understand what happens inside the kiln in the past decades. The atmospherics are mind bending. An... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Some of what follows I have stated on other threads, but there are also some expansions of my thinking. This post is most explicitly about media versus streaming, but still sheds light both on the op and also the thread that followed. Let’s say th... | |
| Phono stage hum - Rega Aria @lewm , there is no doubt that high gain will magnify noise already present. My understanding, however, is that not all MC use a high permeability steel shell or other shielding to block or reduce rfi, and that therefore the cartridge can indeed b... | |
| Phono stage hum - Rega Aria Hi, I had similar problems when I switched from MM to MC, which is a bit like an antenna for stray noise. In my case, there is a nearby broadcast antenna that was generating RFI. The MMs weren't as susceptible to it. After trying most of the thing... | |
| Need help finding a phono/preamp So I have a Schiit Mani in a drawer. When I was running MM cartridges, it worked fine and lots of the music made its way through. Once I shifted to MC cartridges, it was unable to reject RFI from a nearby radio antenna. I spoke with Schiit and my ... |