emergingsoul

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Is toeing speakers a bad idea?
I'm not sure I'll helpful it is to know the dispersion qualities of any given speaker unless you see a straw coming out of the speaker rather than a cone. Horn speakers definitely are dispersed otherwise no clue.  
McIntosh is now inside a Jeep luxury car.
I can't believe they charge an excess of $100,000  
McIntosh is now inside a Jeep luxury car.
The price of the car is an excess of $100,000 are you kidding me ,  absurd  
McIntosh is now inside a Jeep luxury car.
I can’t believe this glorified Jeep is a six digit price tag. The inside is very roomy and nice. But it’s as big as a tank and probably uses a ton of gas.   I hate the computerized displays on cars . The simplicity of what used to be a few lever... 
McIntosh is now inside a Jeep luxury car.
@stringreen You have Great taste in cars, audio components, and artwork, and a nice place to sit down.  And you play the fiddle.  I hope you’re eating healthy  
What’s the relationship between gain (dB) and power (watts)?
So damn complicated. To me it's just balancing gain and power and finding the best combination of two distortion.     Good to know a higher gain means higher voltage is being used.  So if you have higher voltage it's going to require less amplifi... 
Why do people like reel to reel players?
But what about all those older original Masters that exist? Isn't there a better way to transfer that good quality to newer age media to make things sound better.  
Why do people like reel to reel players?
@mlsstl @ghdprentice I wonder if master tapes exist for lots of the older stuff, that is before 1990 or whenever Digital replaced it, where possibly this stuff can be transferred off the tapes in a better way that would improve what we now lis... 
Tube preamp match with Solid Stare amp
What does “low output impedance” mean?  
Preamp Gain issues with high efficiency speakers
Speakers seem way too efficient for your set up.  Or get a tube power amp with just a few watts of power that will get along with your speakers. Cj has these types of amps.   Keep things simple   
Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer?
Not sure if installing roon is going to be of value for the sound quality unless you use some of the dsp included as part of Roon, which I don’t find very appealing. I think the overlay of this on top of qobuz maybe on the neutral side.   Stream... 
Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer?
I have a streamer/dac, lumin x1, and A nucleus for roon. And this connects into my Gat cj pre-amplifier. The lumin is superb and using a separate Dac which I have I wanted to avoid due to all the additional interconnect crap and all the temptation... 
Do you adjust your subwoofer
I have a NAD M17 v2i processor, it's remote has an overall volume Control, of course, and additionally has three separate targeted volume controls for tweaking the surrounds, Center and subwoofer channels. So if the sub sound tends to be too much... 
Why isn't better quality used gear being made available?
A lot of life-changing events have happened since I started this epic thread so long ago. Adopted a dog and have become a philatelist. Being a philatelist is a very very expensive hobby too. So much to learn. They got this one tiny square piece o... 
Why isn't better quality used gear being made available?
So dealers take my trade-in and sell it to a company specializing in the sale of used gear? So that may explain things. How does anyone make money selling new equipment with all this complexity? Unless the margins are greater than 50%. It seems ...