ghasley
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| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @70seradylan Thats good news the long wall is your front wall. If you haven’t already, you would benefit from acoustically treating your room. I am a believer and utilize ASC tube traps in my front corners as well as Stillpoints Aperture 2’s ... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @70seradylan One foot from the rear wall will create challenges for either the OBaby or the O96. Less so with the OBaby but a challenge nonetheless. With some judicious bass trapping it could be possible. Is your 24 foot wall the front wall (... | |
| ETHERNET CABLES @12many et al Nice of you to post your concern for how others may or may not spend their money. Additionally, its difficult to convince people who have experienced dramatic improvements in their audio enjoyment by optimizing their ethernet/dig... | |
| First Streamer... @carlsbad Agreed. One bright spot is that an average dac today is so much better than an average dac of 10-15 years ago. Its a great time to be in the hobby. | |
| Rebadging of Streaming Platforms @petaluman The "hypex" of streamers is raspberry pi. | |
| Rebadging of Streaming Platforms @badgerdms Indeed, there are a number of streamers anchored by the open source flexibility of the raspberry pi variants. There are others which utilize a more sophisticated cpu setup but Linux seems to be OS of most. I can imagine that many of t... | |
| First Streamer... If your top line budget is $2k then @ghdprentice gave solid advice. If I were in your shoes I would consider the Bluesound feeding your Rega and save the rest for when its time to upgrade. Bluesound seems to be the gateway drug to streaming althou... | |
| Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000 @smodtactical I found the ref5se was a more visceral, tactile preamp with a little more flesh. I also disliked strongly the volume on ref6 which came on entirely too strong out of the gate. Zero was no sound, 10 was VERY loud. Its my understa... | |
| Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000 @smodtactical @ghdprentice I’ve owned the Ref5se three times through the years, simply an extraordinary preamp that bridges the gap between the ARC of yesteryear and the ARC of today. In fact, I preferred it to the Ref6. I have also ... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. @larrykell you are making this too hard. Almost any amp will do. You seem to be worried about the speaker cable lugs fitting and you can look for a LOOOOONG time before you THINK they might fit. In the meantime you could buy a reasonable amp,... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. @larrykell If you cant get a loaner amp, may I suggest it almost doesnt matter what you purchase for the short duration of getting your Gryphon serviced. Buy a decent preowned amp that has reasonable demand when it comes time to resell. There... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. Is the amp you purchase to tide you over going to get sold when your Gryphon returns or will you keep it for the occasional "something different" mood that plagues so many of us? What is your budget for your given scenario? | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. Yes...sounds like the right channel to your amp. Im a tube guy myself but you will be very surprised with some of the better engineered class d amplification. Atmasphere has come out with a new pair of small monoblocks but maybe your dealer has a ... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. @larrykell How do I figure out if the problem is in the amplifier, preamp, or interconnects? See my third paragraph on in my post above. | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. Hi @larrykell Sorry to hear about your troubles, first world or otherwise, and I hope your hip is mending according to plan. First thing to do would be to isolate to a particular channel so swap your speaker cables from left to right and ... |