eisen0169
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| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! It's more likely that a home will experience different lengths of electrical spikes from transient to brownouts, etc. or a close lightning strike that goes through the ground and gets into the home than a direct hit. So the most you can do is lay... | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! Always unplug electronics when there's an electrical storm or when you travel. | |
| Anthony (Tony) Cordesman has passed away I thought the article was a joke until the last paragraphs. I remember reading his op-ed's in the newspapers and his name from AS. Trying to evaluate and figure out audio products and world politics surely share the difficulty of simultaneously ... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Just because you have $20k to spend on speakers doesn't mean you should or that any speaker represents value. Yamaha NS-5000 speakers were introduced in 2016 for $15k. They took a while to get to the USA, but are still $15k. That's $19,200 in t... | |
| A little gift for my fellow audiophiles Very well recorded; can't believe I'm just streaming from my Mac laptop and your link. I heard an Usher speaker in about 2008 and was impressed. They have a distributor in the USA and I looked through the Usher website. Clearly a value line. I... | |
| Why "bookshelf" sspeakers? Yamaha describes my NS-5000 speakers as bookshelf speakers although with 12" woofers and their size and weight they are of course floorstanders. I think Yamaha, and others, are just describing a traditional style of speaker, mostly 3-way, that ar... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? My thoughts exactly. Thanks. | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Yes, I can use my Macbook Air and did. I wanted to hardwire ethernet but use the computer from across the room so I purchased a 25 or 30 ft. usb a to usb b cable with an inline booster. There was also the need for a uab c to usb a connector sinc... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? The Marantz SA-10 has two USB inputs but they cannot be used for streaming and both are synchronus. One is a USB -A used strictly for stored music and the other is USB-B which is dedicated to iPod input, and older versions at that. The SA-10 is ... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Yes, I'm understanding it now and have been researching. I will do some more listening to the same music I know well on CD, SACD,and streaming via Spotify and Quobuz. Thanks, everyone. | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? The 44.1 redbook quality I am referring to is the sampling frequency of the linear PCM signal input to the Marantz DAC. That's what the Marantz manual says. What I'm hearing sounds as good as CD but of course the Marantz is upsampling. Maybe th... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Thanks, I'll give Qobuz a try first. I'm trying to compare streaming to music I know well that I play on CD or SACD which is the only way I can judge. I guess I don't understand if any signal the stream outputs is getting upsampled and upconvert... | |
| Marantz cd players I have the SA-10, which replaced a Sony 5400-ES. When I got the Sony 5400ES and played an SACD vs. the same redbook CD the quality difference in the sound was readily apparent, so I wanted to stick with SACD. I did extensive research before choo... | |
| A free tweak revisited When I was shopping for stereo loudspeakers at a predominately home theater dealer I was surprised when they demoed by turning the lights completely off. I thought it was dishonest in a way, since I never listen like that and I wasn't certain wha... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll Another Luxman 590AXII owner. It's actually high bias Class A to 30 watts, then A/B to 100. The 30 watts is enough for most everything. That said, it's really heavy, at 65 lbs. Never gets hot to my knowledge. It sounds like Class D is really a... |