eurorack
Responses from eurorack
| How hot is too hot? Anything you do to reduce the temperature inside a power amplifier will extend the lifetime of some components, most notably electrolytic capacitors. This becomes important sooner or later. FWIW, the interior temp I measure on my big Krells hovers... | |
| Audio Research LS28SE vs McIntosh C53 Let's hesitate to go to ChatGPT or start using any LLM-based "oracle" for advice, assessment, or summary. These AI tools only scan the Internet (or were trained from the Internet), and then parrot-out text from random sources, meted by statistical... | |
| Power Cords/ Conditioner/Surge Protectors As above, "Good surge suppression is a MUST for expensive high-end equipment." -- ABSOLUTELY TRUE. +1 to willywonka. | |
| Sub woofer naive question day "Sub out" indicates a low-frequency output, intended to be fed directly to a powered subwoofer. | |
| is McIntosh known for good dynamics? BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): This is a long description of my strange trip, and it responds to the OP only within the domain of vintage Mc tube gear. I don't expect my experience to be any kind of "guide to absolute truth", but it is one data poin... | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... One question is, "What, overall, determines sound quality?". A different, but closely related question is, "What, under my control, determines sound quality?". OP tomcarr suggests the importance of the room. Interestingly, the room is controllabl... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? Yes. | |
| What would you save in a fire? I'd pass out trying to lift my Krells and perish with them in the fire. | |
| Do Audio Hobbyists Commonly Fail to Fully Utilize Their Systems? allears4u, I've made the mistakes you mention. My worst chronic mistake has been speaker placement (ironically, a zero-dollar aspect of this hobby). Placement oversight/neglect seems common. Based on the "my system" pictures posted throughout the... | |
| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? There is another band -- I believe -- called, "Brown Sabbath" as I recall. The sound on the "Brown Sabbath" CD I have is kind of energetic jazz; as often with jazz, YMMV. Cheers, and Happy New Year. | |
| The Disappearing Act OP asks if the disappearing happens uniformly -- with all recordings. For me, definitely not. Only with a few LPs and a with a few CDs. In my experience, most recordings and subsequent transfers to media suck; probably because of weak technology,... | |
| Room is way too bright. Dense drapes. Ask your sig o. to choose color. (This is not hard.) | |
| Doozy of an amp question Not sure of the orientation here. "my speakers are Dalis" reads like, "my car is Ford" -- Is it a Fiesta or a GT? Knowing only "ARC REF 10 and Dali", an ARC amplifier would pair with the ARC 10, but who knows the rest. | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! Agreed, Lalitk, The Frankenstein look of the MCD85 is, IMO, unbeatable in this little contest of yours. It is (obviously?) a reference to the MC2100, which I owned for some years, but never appreciated for beauty. It sat on a bottom shelf, largel... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Here's something that may be hard to consider: Chances are fair enough that each of us has had either a same component, or one that was similar in brand/quality to one the host has. "Oh, I had a similar one of those xxx, back in college. It was gr... |