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| Differences in CD players? Am I crazy? "Admittedly, I have cheaper components. An entry level Kenwood receiver, and cerwin vega speakers,"I think you have analyzed the situation properly. You need to compare the two in a higher resolution system and then see if you hear a difference. | |
| DYI Speakers. How good can they be? I wish you luck but the Wright Brothers maybe shouldn't be your role model. They may have been first to fly in 1903, but after an initial burst of business success they fell behind and were struggling 8 years later. In 1912, Wilbur Wright, worn ou... | |
| Rate these on order of importance: Matchstikman, if you have crappy speakers with a great source the end result is still crap.If you put one bad ingredient on your pizza you are going to have a bad pizza not matter how good the rest of it is. | |
| Rate these on order of importance: Bad speakers in a great room will sound as poor as great speakers in terrible room. A great source feeding bad speakers will sound just as poor as a bad source feeding great speakers, etc. etc. What you ask is impossible. It is called a system for... | |
| soundquality televisionbroadcasting THAT good ? It is technically impossible for the FM audio from a standard television broadcast to be as good as what good CD playback has to offer in terms of both frequency extension and dynamic range. I agree with Blueswan that it just sounds so much better... | |
| Best Live Recording on LP The defunct Tracking Angle magazine had an article about this. The link will take you to the back issue page and the issue is the last on the page. | |
| Single input Line-Stage Pre-amp I don't think a state of the art pre with a single in/out exists. The market for such a piece is too small to justify building one. However, most any preamp could be easily modified to bypass the input selector and hardwire one set of inputs. This... | |
| How can my $300 6 year old entry level Rotel sound I had both of those Theta pieces and agree with you; great bass but the treble was a bit too much. There was an upgrade to the dac which made it a IIIa that would help but I wouldn't spend the money even if it is still available. I think these are... | |
| I have dedicated lines, but why is this happening? Dedicated does not mean isolated. Your dedicated lines are tied together with everything else at the power panel so it is very easy for noise generated by something like the AC unit to find it's way into your gear. | |
| Do magnets and electronics mix? The idea of isolation and "zero contact" is wishful thinking. The force that pushes the magnets apart is just as real as the force that holds up a component on any other type of footer. It isn't a magic carpet that just floats there. Even though t... | |
| What's this stuff on the back of a PS Audio Outlet The blue things look like MOV's (Metal Oxide Varistors) They provide overvoltage protection. The black square thing looks like a capacitor, probably for noise reduction. | |
| Bass traps: determining size and how many Short answer, no. Bigger trap = lower frequencies so two smaller ones is not the same.Long answer, first you need to determine what the problem frequencies are and then determine how to address the problem; absorb? equalize? change modes (dimensio... | |
| Concrete tubes: hemholtz resonators? tubes? It is the size of the cavities and the openings that determine the characteristics of these resonators. The shell of the cavities should be inert since they do not play a role as an absorber. The fact that they are concrete would be an advantage b... | |
| Room size and dimensions The Cardas website has some good info on this. | |
| how to regulate the currant and the voltage of the I have no experience with NAD equipment so the following applies to solid state amplifiers in general.I think perhaps you did not fix it. Most solid state amplifiers are self biasing, they require no adjustments. If it is overheating after a few m... |