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| Audioquest source AC Hurricane vs FireBird FWIW in my system, power cables on the DAC and Pre Amp made the most difference. That may be because my Pass Labs amp is already so good. After trying Audience, Shunyata and Audioquest PCs on it, the one that made the most difference was High Fid... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal I just started having this problem around a month ago. At least once a Tidal list, one of the songs has serious distortion. Threads like this make me feel better because I am hoping it is not my very good equipment:)Today it was Last Song by Edw... | |
| Recommendations for power amp placement/dampening Off on a tangent. I have the XA25 as well and did have the XA30.5. Pass Labs also believes that power cords also do not make a difference. They do not make as big of difference as with some other equipment, but I have found a quality cord like A... | |
| New purchase Bryston bdp 2 PS - this may only apply to BDP-2's with newer boards. Hope this info is still helpful. | |
| New purchase Bryston bdp 2 Just want to mention that any of the USB inputs also function as USB outputs. I am using USB into a Benchmark DAC3 and it sounds wonderful. | |
| Audio Research Reference 3 Bypass Caps Question Thank you! I really appreciate the info and feel better about my not having an updated model. Since it had been working fine for 13 years I had been wondering if it would be worth having it updated. BTW Audio Research told me they no longer offe... | |
| Audio Research Reference 3 Bypass Caps Question I couldn't get the photo to show. The silver caps with yellow ends are on the same board and side as the 4 tubes but on the opposite end of the 4 tubes. These are the ones I am missing. | |
| Preamp recommendation please.. Some people appear to find it a bit bright but the solid state ARC LS3 was a Stereophile Class A component that only listed for $1,200 back in the 90s and can be found for under $700 now. They are superb. | |
| power amp recommendation Since you are open to Class D and depending on your price range, check out Wyred4Sound. I own the ST500, and after having owned older power amps from Marantz, Parasound and McCormack, I could not be more pleased. | |
| Isolation Transformer - Use with Cheater Plug Forgot to say that I do have Directv and audio is connected to the preamp via RCA jacks. So maybe a RCA ground isolation device is what I really need. | |
| Isolation Transformer - Use with Cheater Plug Thx again. And the humor went over my head - I have no idea what you are talking about :)Jea48 - Yes, without the cheater plugs and even inserted into the same outlet I get the hum. I replaced a Parasound with a McCormack power amp and that starte... | |
| Isolation Transformer - Use with Cheater Plug Thanks for the responses. I originally had the pair plugged into the same outlet with the cheater plugs. (I did not have this problem until I replaced my previous power amp.) Without the cheater plugs, the hum is very loud.Sorry to still be confus... | |
| Budget Subwoofer? The older NHT SW2 and SW3 are very musical subs that might be found for under $300. These were sold with their own detached amplifier as they were passive subs. So please keep that in mind when pricing them. | |
| Personal amp evolution GE Stereo built to look like component receiver.Pioneer integrated amp - SA8100 (I have had it since 1975 and can't bear to part with it though it no longer works.)A couple of different Pioneer receivers (probably a step back in retrospect.)Marant... | |
| Preamp Switching to Mono Thank you Rwwear,Yes I was using a "y" running the second pair into a Behringer electronic crossover that has a separate subwoofer output but only the one input. Can you think of a way around my dilemna short of selling the Behringer and springing... |