hickamore
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| Amps In Wall Or Conditioner? tomic601 +1. Fortunately, no wall warts in the system and DAC is a good one. If an electrician ever shows up I will have him follow your advice.grannyring, have definitely looked at Puritan, which must be the gold standard as many other users veri... | |
| Amps In Wall Or Conditioner? Thanks, all. As planned, stereo amp stays in the wall. Conditioner goes in the wall. DAC, streamers, CD go in the conditioner. Analog sources can probably go anywhere(?). Preamp and sub amp are the floaters. Then we listen and fiddle and await the... | |
| Amps In Wall Or Conditioner? builder3, yes I will experiment within the limit of available possibilities at any particular time.gdhp, mijostyn, thanks for the clarification. As it happens, nothing but audio outlets on my (in that sense) dedicated circuit. Believe I will add a... | |
| Amps In Wall Or Conditioner? ghdprentice, not sure I know what you mean by direct lines. Separate dedicated wall outlets for different amps on the same circuit? Or whole dedicated circuits for each amp? Or something completely different? Thanks. | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Some fine suggestions here that I will follow.First being: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/top-3-songs-to-evaluate-a-system?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_...) Rainmaker is my cable, cap, resistor, tube, tester. :-) In fact, I'm off to try ... | |
| Tannoy Definition Subwoofer Just a closeout price, not scratch & dent. Kevin bought them all, every unit the distributor had remaining, hence the bargain price. According to Kevin's video, it DOES have adjustable high-pass filter. Also, goes down to 15-19Hz, depending on... | |
| HiFi vs MidFi mahgister, not doubting your claims re totality of listening experience, but surely you would agree that some components achieve better resolution than others, that some move more air than others, and that these differences are audible? | |
| HiFi vs MidFi Very true about control of room acoustics. However, all else being equal in that dimension:Helped a friend, who had been without home hi-fi for decades, set up a new system for a smallish listening space. $1100 Cambridge streamer/DAC/digital pream... | |
| Best Desktop Speakers under $500 Love my gorgeous powered Audioengine 2+ in red gloss finish with included stands. Those on the desk, paired with cheap subwoofer on the floor, all under $500 not counting the high-end cables that came free from the Currently Disused Cable Drawer. ... | |
| On ''what there is'' What there is extends from Grado to Grace, Bluepoint to Goldfinger.+1Such a long and winding road to the simple answer. Sometimes it's more the journey than the destination. | |
| On ''what there is'' Music is inside us not only outside us.... I can accept that. So the recording would spark the music within us. In what sense can it be said that music is within us? Perhaps, as we are what we eat, we are also what we hear (have heard). Though ... | |
| On ''what there is'' I listen music now at least not sounds -- MahgisterIf you are not attending a live performance or hearing a live stream of a performance, then you are not listening to music, you are listening to recordings. | |
| On ''what there is'' To recap: OP says his theme "sounds philosophical," which it does, but turns out he's simply praising the collective knowledge generated by the forum. Given that several powerful minds hang out around here, we went quickly to metaphysics, material... | |
| Matching solid state amps with tube based pre amps Given no impedance mismatches,Tube pre --> SS amp --> sensitive speakers = easy meatTube pre --> Tube amp --> sensitive speakers = musical easy meatTube integrated amp --> sensitive speakers = theoretically optimal, no worry over im... | |
| 16 bit vs 24 bit vs 35 bit vs 36 bit vs 64 bit DAC sampling "attaining outstanding powers of expression" - good Latinate pomposity. +1. That's marketing, not engineering. |