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| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers I wholeheartedly agree with audioman58, noodlyarm, bellemusique and quite a few others on these points: 1) while there are exceptions (and they are usually at the highest price points, because they have the profit-margin to do it), certainly for c... | |
| Does anybody pay a pro to dial their system in? One other quick point: how broken-in are your components, TT, and specifically the speakers? As an audio mentor of mine often said, you gotta put current through everything, at least a couple-hundred hours, before you start to hear what they reall... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Fun topic. So many greats above. I don't think I saw Ricky Wilson from the B-52's mentioned. Extremely underrated. Also, +1 for Johnny Marr (The Smiths) -- so melodic. And I may have missed Marc Bolan (T-Rex) being mentioned. Agree on music stre... | |
| Qobuz Hi-Rez Not Necessarily the Best Sound Yes, that makes sense, @sns . Thank you. 'Come to think of it, there have been a few firmware updates to the Auralic Aries. That's got to be it. TY, again! | |
| Qobuz Hi-Rez Not Necessarily the Best Sound You know, @tomcy6 , I believe it does. Believe it or not, a friend (obviously, a very good one) gifted me the unit because he'd bought a Bryston, and I recall him telling me that he'd set it to sample at the highest possible rate. That would help ... | |
| Qobuz Hi-Rez Not Necessarily the Best Sound Great thread, all!... and timely, for me. First, I concur with so many here: the ability to have so much music available in Hi-Res these days is just wonderful. I'm a Qobuz subscriber myself, and generally find that the 192 kHz stuff (especially t... | |
| Full range speaker recommendation Many great recommendations here (I'd expect nothing less). Just wanted to mention a smaller provider, Tyler Acoustics (tylersacoustics.com). I bought my first pair of speakers from Ty Lashbrook way back in 2004, and he just made me a new pair rece... |