erik_squires
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| Need recommendations for a new pre-amp (SS) to possibly replace my Conrad Johnson Hmmmmm, not sure if this is going to be good advice or not, but I really liked the CJ PV series, and as I recall had a single series cap on the outputs. Those contributed a lot to their sound, and upgrading them can be beneficial, but it has to be... | |
| What is this speaker cable connection? So, lots wrong here. Speaker terminals have voltage, and accidentally shorting them can damage your amp. You don't want long, conductive terminals here. Next, they look very hard. You want your spades to be soft, that improves how well they grip a... | |
| Putting speakers next to other speakers This discussion is academic, without a decent solution. What is your alternative? Are you going to build two rooms? Are you going to put them all on wheels, listen to one pair, then swap them? I'm pretty sure the answer to all of this is no, s... | |
| Static playing while streaming music in oppo DAC Wondering why you don't just assume you have a bad blutooth connection? All wireless protocols are subject to interference. Try keeping your BT source close, as well as trying different BT sources. | |
| Is Parasound on to something? Or, How important is crossover management in preamps? You are conflating a couple of things. Adding a high pass filter to your mains does reduce the load on the amp, and does make them easier to integrate with a sub, but the Parasound lets you do that without an external crossover. This is to me a bi... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? I do believe that being happy with any speaker is the room. Too often listeners hear a great experience at a dealer, come home, don’t have it, and then are sold power cables, amps, etc, to try and reach the nirvana which was always the room to beg... | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system Spend $2k on the room. | |
| Accounting for slight hearing loss Doesn't matter what anyone says the dacs in almost every DSP/room/speaker/xover box is usually rubbish compared to your own hiend dac Maybe that's why I'm not recommending any such device. | |
| Accounting for slight hearing loss A DSP between my transport and DAC will convert with it’s own DAC, do its eq, then convert back to the undecoded format (ADC). Then my MHDT will see it as before. Sorry but for this specific case, your example is incorrect. The signal remains in ... | |
| Ditching Roon going back to BluOS for Bluesound Node 2i On the Android or Windows app ( all I have ). Search for the artist. Say "Stevie Nicks"Then slide the panel up, and you'll find the top tracks. Best,E | |
| What is this speaker cable connection? Well, not sure how expensive those connectors are in real life, but they are just typical spades. Unscrew the amp terminals and stick them in. :) | |
| Streamer v DAC - which is more important? DAC. The clock is there. The streamer is not nearly as relevant. I'm using Roon via an old Linux box and $150 Pi 4 streamer. | |
| Ditching Roon going back to BluOS for Bluesound Node 2i So, I just tried Roon, and yes it does show you the top tracks of an artist. Best,E | |
| Accounting for slight hearing loss Keep in mind, I am advocating for DSP based EQ before a DAC, not after. The use of a DSP EQ after a DAC to me is anti-high end as it requires two more conversions, in addition to the math. With the Loki it all remains in the analog domain, subject... | |
| Automatic Room Correction is better than the alternative. But how can we be sure your emotions aren’t getting in the way of your evaluations? The person who I gave free advice to, but was so enraged by the free advice which he did not take and follows me on A’gon relentlessly would like to warn us about... |