drbarney1
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| Are there any audiophile Air BnB's? Let any tenant supply his/her own system and make it clear to the tenant and neighbors that any complaint, which need not require a neighbor to confront the tenant and put up with false promises to turn it down only to be followed by experimenting... | |
| Audio Research Refernce 75se The threat of excessive repair costs is why I build my own audio whenever reasonably possible to match or exceed far more expensive factory made amplifiers and preamps using the same parts and design. Often you can use better parts than the manufa... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears Mahler symphonies 2 and 8, Mozart's Laudate Dominum. | |
| How long do you or should you keep your gear. I build most of my own gear because not only can I not afford gear costing 4, 5, or especially 6 figures, but for all the money you can't always pick and choose what you want. I see a $10,000 tube amp advertised on this site which has electrolytic... | |
| Advice for Amp to Drive Klipsch Forte IVs If you can get someone to guide you if you have never done it before, don't rule out building a 45 SET tube amp. Bottlehead.com has some kits and they support you. A 45 is more than enough for sensitive horn speakers such as Klipsch. | |
| Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago Close to that long ago I used 3 way cone speakers driven by bi-amped 45 SETs.The crossovers were complicated by notch filters controlling resonant drops in impedance. It was not the simple matter of using more active filters between the 6SN7 drive... | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? While a better DAC R2R ladder will help you, if you can rip all your CDs "bit perfect" into a computer and store them on a USB flash drive with a backup copy and play the flash drive through a streamer such as a Bluesound, it will not be as diffic... | |
| Helping a friend build a new system If possible have him audition some systems of the kind he wants in rooms of similar acoustics to choose the parts of the system that sound best to him. Gone are the days when anyone could save up and afford "the best" expensive such as McIntosh or... | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? I have the same music server and I ripped all 175 of my CD collection and with help from Bluesound transferred it to my laptop with the corrections to digital data the Vault 2i did. I rearranged my library into folders, one for each composer and i... | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? For high voltages, 300 and higher including 1000 or more, I feel safer using polypropylene to electrolytic because of shelf life issues the former do not have and you can get polypropylene good for 1300 Volts for about the same price you would hav... | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiXAIz0EI48&t=50s I use these with Magnepan 0.7s with DWM bass panels. An 833A is more than powerful enough to make Magnepans too loud but the 833A has a very rich sound. You only need 1000 Volts on the plat... | |
| I had a few drinks and bought some speakers j-wall, While I am a Magnepan fan I appreciate the many ways to engineer speakers. I doubt you live close enough to Delaware where I live to let me help you push those splendid speakers up the stairs. I am a MOST amateur bodybuilder but no power l... | |
| Beginner looking for guidance into tube sound. Don't rule out a DIY kit. You can choose the best components: film and foil capacitors in the signal path, superior polypropylene power supply filter capacitors, and the simplicity of tube design which if it needs repair, which it probably will no... | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes While there are sound differences that we do not know how or of what to measure, there are marketers who take advantage of "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." One example is the issue of skin effect attenuating treble through speaker cables... | |
| Millercarbon's Mega Moab Mod Meander I read in Sound and Vision magazine the half-million dollar Rolls Royce had a sound system which has software giving access to every pop song ever recorded. It excludes classical music and opera because according to some market research too few pe... |