ghdprentice
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| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Wow. Congratulations! Patience and perseverance win out. | |
| Which interconnect cable to upgrade first @xcool. “Lumin T2 -> Parasound JC2 -> Parasound JC5 ” Nice, elegant well chosen components. It is nice to see a system like this. Given the equipment I would go for neutral with ever so slight touch of warmth. I would give a consideratio... | |
| Which interconnect cable to upgrade first What equipment do you have? | |
| Considering the Pro-ject Box CD RS2 Transport ? You might want to read this, first. @stuartk Thank you for your carefully worded summary of the ergonomics of the transport. These kinds of things are important to many, but not important to some. I assure you, if I was purchasing one this would be of great importance to me. My CD... | |
| FM Tuners Sorry not to answer your question. But I am seriously trying to be helpful. I would recommend a streamer. You can get thousands of stations from all over the world, and depending on the quality of the streamer, with much greater fidelity. In addit... | |
| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. Interesting. Thanks for posting. | |
| Which interconnect cable to upgrade first I would do streamer first, then preamp. | |
| Higher powered but efficient amp with the imaging of a Pass XA-25? Whoa! Slow down. The description of the sound you gave comes from a synergy of AMT drivers with a nice natural amp like a Pass XA30. If you want that sound you are not going to get it from some KEF bookshelf speakers and the quick choice of a high... | |
| Digital power cord for tube amp? A number of manufacturers manufacture different lines of power cords designed for digital components, for instance Shunyata. The digital is designed primarily with noise reduction as opposed to passing massive current. I haven’t experienced a real... | |
| Best DAC under 1000 that has BT 5 and XLR with coax, USB, Ethernet I would recommend stretching to a Schiit Gungnir multibit. It is $1,299. It if you are trying to assemble a good system, this is an excellent sounding DAC for the money. In general will outperform DACs of far greater cost. Natural sounding, detail... | |
| Nobsound springs - load range @noromance “I have a rock in my second system phono amp. A rock! From the yard.” 👍 Love it. Now that is a cost effective tweak. I suppose now we need to discuss if a piece of wood might not be better (think Maple Shade)… or what kind of ... | |
| used single ended ss power amp 😀👍 | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation @smaarch1 One of the attributes of components and of a system which I found really really difficult to manage is adding too much highlighted detail so one’s system brings out flaws. High lighted detail can be very rewarding when listening to you... | |
| Should I redo the AC power in my house? Thanks @4krowme. While not systematic sampling, still interesting. | |
| Analyzing Balanced versus Unbalanced Amplifiers--Difference in sonic quality? In high end audio implementation is everything, the design, the exact components used (manufacturer and type of resistors, capacitors… etc). Playing with the signal digitally is virtually always a bad thing. Really good equipment doesn’t touch the... |