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| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @atmasphere Hi Ralph. To your point " What tubes do better than transistors is not make higher ordered harmonic distortions to which the ear is very sensitive and also perceives as irritating. That's not a matter of opinion its a simple fact and ... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @mapman I agree completely with your post with one exception, "expense". Personally, I believe it is expensive to make great sound at home these daysWhile I’m sure you would agree that whether or not something is expensive can be subjective, I thi... | |
| A nice read on tubes! Well I can vouch for the accuracy of Grateful Dead statistics mentioned in the article!It’s rather apropos that the article mentions "If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad. If it measures bad and sounds good, you’ve measured the wrong thin... | |
| Explain to me dsd http://www.mojo-audio.com/blog/dsd-vs-pcm-myth-vs-truth/ | |
| Audioquest Niagara vs PS Audio Only one problem with the Niagara 7000.... the price. It's not a "7000" for no reason :) Otherwise I would love to own one. Even the Niagara 1000, at $1000 is no bargain. Personally, I took a much more modest approach to power conditioning, and fo... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? This subject has been discussed previously in the forum, but does get resurrected every so often. Personally, my view is "it depends". Putting aside the added electrical cost, minimal or not, I completely power down all of my components when not i... | |
| Center Splice Speaker Wire Thanks Eric. Yeah the wire I'm using is copper. I didn't know that oxidation is just as conductive. From what I've read elsewhere, such as here http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm , oxidation would be something to avoid. In any case I'm not... | |
| Best Integrated amp for under 4k Given that this thread has been resurrected, I'll offer my two cents. Musical Fidelity M6si | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment reads like an appropriate article. this may have been posted previously elsewhere in the forumhttp://www.mojo-audio.com/blog/dsd-vs-pcm-myth-vs-truth/ | |
| The demise of the music CD inevitable? Not looking to belabor this thread, but these URLs make for interesting reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec4.html | |
| Need Help From The Resident Experts @almarg your wealth of information about all things audio related never ceases to be impressive, informative and rather well articulated. | |
| Power conditioner help A properly functioning power conditioner does not choke anything. The manufacturers typically will or will not state whether or not their conditioner limits current. Regardless, current can be checked before and after the conditioner with a simple... | |
| The demise of the music CD inevitable? rgs92 wrote: I have hundreds of CDs purchased new from 1986 to 1989 (I know because I made a big list in 1990) and with a rare exception they all play and sound just fine. I don’t know where the data or experiments on this idea that CDs wear out i... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment @rgs92 do you mean to say you are able to hear a difference in a BLIND test between PCM and DSD? If yes, that has never been known to have been achieved, nor is that documented by an applicable and recognized scientific study. | |
| Power conditioner help arsh, yes I have one PC plugged into another. The Emotiva is one of the only devices that offers a "DC filter". The Panamax has surge protection and under/over voltage protection. Both have noise/rfi/emi filtering. IMO unless your looking to spend... |