erik_squires
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| What’s up with Roon search? Since you are using roon, have you tried using your phone or tablet to search?? | |
| Audiophiles and De-cluttering -- your journey toward both psychic and sonic improvement @lalitk - The last great music and HT preamp I owned was the Theta Casanova. The older generation Anthem’s were not terrible. I _am_ going to simplify but I must choose within my budget and features. I need a long term loan of a Theta or Datasat u... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? OP: Be careful as some are marketed as "offers surge protection" which is different from having a UL or ETL certification as a surge protection device. Actual surge protectors will be certified to UL 1449. It's the difference between throwing an... | |
| Pass....Accuphase....or...... Pass has it's own sound and you 100% need to listen first, as some reach nirvana and others can't spend much time listening to it. Luxman and Ayre should also be considered. Ayre too has it's own sound and some fall in love with it. I'm on te... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? I think I am really talking about power conditioners with surge protection. My biggest question is first and foremost whether a unit has been tested and certified as a surge protector. Boutique audio "conditioners" rarely are. | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? My SC home is 18 years old. It doesn't require whole house surge suppression vut it was the first thing I dId. Prior experience plus moving to a lightning prone area made this essential for me. | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? I forgot to mention that on new construction and work done on existing systems, a whole house surge protector is now required as I understand it. As of 2020 the NEC requires it, local codes will vary. Among the things they protect is the hous... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? Sorry to hear about your loss. Living in San Francisco and Los Angeles I had to pay a lot for real power conditioning. The absolute safest, and most affordable solution is this Furman with voltage regulation, series protection, and automatic over... | |
| using V Cap Odam To Improve SQ In mid band of speaker XO OP: If you mean ADDING it so the total uF = 2.7 + 3 = 5.7uF, then absolutely not. If you meant replace, then 2.7 is right on the edge of what I'd recommend trying without compensation. I'd add a .27uF to get close to the original 3. An easie... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... I also want to mention that there’s a lot of connectors made with Rhodium. I made very pretty stuff with them, but from a conductivity and grip perspect I don’t like them. Same for nickel. Leave Rhodium for jewelry. Stick to copper, brass, gold a... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... @antigrunge2 methinks your argument is best summarized as: compensating one weakness by another doesn’t work and you end up chasing your tail. Pretty much, yes. Otherwise I have settled on solid core and well shielded as well, but honestly ne... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... @fthompson251 - Not problematic in the sense of reliability, but over time I've found that many highly regarded audio cables are essentially subtractive in some form or another. In my experience with WW, which was mid-level speaker and up to Gol... | |
| Upsampling/Oversampling The biggest changes with modern DACs in my hearing has been with the way the digital filter behaves, specifically the high frequency roll off. With older DAC's I often found a very large gap in performance between 44.1/16 and higher resolutions b... | |
| Should I buy a seperate dac? Not sure if you can still find them, but the Parasound ZDac was an absolutely great sounding DAC for peanuts. If you are dac-curious, a unit like that would not set you back too far. | |
| Should I buy a seperate dac? Listen for yourself, is my honest suggestion. No reason to spend money on an alleged value that your ears don’t enjoy. You may find a DAC that for you is just super delicious sounding. That’s when you buy. In today's day and age though a streame... |