gregm
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| Power Conditioning on the Cheap While a dedicated power line is always beneficial, getting a basic AC filter is simpler. I suggest you opt for a low-cost, pro Furman device like this one (or similar) and take it from there. You will most certainly hear an improvement. | |
| Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ? @inna No one really talks about either Audionet or FM Acoustics. I would be interested to hear the impressions, especially regarding FM Acoustics. In any case, there are probably 10 or so brands at the very top level to choose from, including a... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? I have auditioned a few iterations of the 30 series and most of the 40s and can second the points made by @orfeo_monteverdi above (and many others). Harbeths are polite and, when you adjust to their presentation, you get musical cohesiveness -- as... | |
| Linear power supply for a router As long as there is enough amperage to power the device you're fine. | |
| Subs and room nodes Have you tried placing a speaker at the seating position, playing a bass tune and crawling around the normal speaker placement area? Wherever the bass is strongest is where you should place your speakers -- approximately. You mentioned that your ... | |
| Linear power supply for a router As you describe it, it should be fine. Presumably you want to stream music? I'd be curious to know if the PS change affects the sound | |
| Rogue Pharaoh II vs Naim Supernait 3 for Revels If I'm not mistaken the Rogue is cheapaer than the Naim -- so no sweat there. That said, the Rogue's much higher power output will drive the Revels better. However, if you want bang for buck, the Musical Fidelity M8s - 500 gives you about 500W fo... | |
| Wadia 861 as a DAC I have fond memories of this Wadia! You can stream music using the Wadia as your dac, however I would probably relegate it to transport duty and purchase a current spec external DAC. Reasonably priced (1-3k) DACs nowadays perform very well. | |
| CD transports I second @jasonbourne52 ’s advice to keep the Lux until it dies. If not, another contender is TEAC: their CDPs use excellent transports and any used CDP will work very well as a stand-alone. BTW, bits may be bits, but extracting them and transpor... | |
| Impedance Matching Confusion As mentioned previously you are driving one 4ohm speaker, not two. The nominal load remains that of the pseaker (4ohm). | |
| Thiel Cs 2.3 with neodium Tweeter of CS 2.4 As unsound said, above. You'd need to have the TS parametres of both tweeters, which are probably unobtainium. Best to check with Madisound , maybe someone has checked this out! | |
| All In One Recommendations Good to see you back @trelja even if it's as the bearer of bad news! A great sounding, modestly priced option is the ATC integrated (from the speakers people); I listened to one and found it amazingly good for the price -- IIRC less than 2k -- wh... | |
| turntable for daughter I second both choices -- Pro-ject or Rega. For a bit more expensive, any plug'n' play Clearaudio package. | |
| Bonham’s Squeaky Drum Pedal The squeak is there right @ 4" when the drums enter, continues throughout the track. Not the end of the world IMO... | |
| DAC Upgrade When it comes to buying american, Schiit offers the best value for money. BTW, @ericsch Denafriprs is Singaporean, not american 🙂 |