hilde45
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| New listening room question Those 12' ceilings are a great, great asset. "Everything keys off the ceiling height." https://www.decware.com/paper36.htm Amroc: you're in the "bolt area" -- https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc?l=19.75&w=17.5&h=12&ft=tru... | |
| Rel Does Not Recomment Isolation Stands Their advice is about the default, best. I don't know about springs. But what I do know is that there can be cases when there are room modes which are located between ceiling and floor, and lifting a sub can address that. That would be an excepti... | |
| Tube Preamps that work well with SS amps? Use the force, Luke. https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=tube+preamp+solid+state+amp | |
| Pass Labs XA25 without preamp (from a variable output source) vs INT25 I can try the Bluesound. The Orchid cannot vary the volume. | |
| Pass Labs XA25 without preamp (from a variable output source) vs INT25 @joegt Yes, same DAC. My setup is BlueSound Node 2i --> Orchid DAC --> XA25 Honestly, I *wanted* to like it. I hoped I had found a magical way to cut out the preamp. Here's what a friend said about my experiment: "you lose some layering ... | |
| Pass Labs XA25 without preamp (from a variable output source) vs INT25 UPDATE: Ok, I listened for about an hour. I think the preamp is needed. (Mine is in the shop.) Why? The dimensionality of the soundstage is much reduced and there is a raw quality to some of the recordings where before there was a smoother and mor... | |
| Thoughts on having 2 different sized subs in same room Possibly of interest. As I read this, he not only inveighs against *one* subwoofer but also against the idea that one should be satisfied with a monoaural effect from subwoofers. From Jim Smith’s “Get Better Sound” “One of the greatest disappoin... | |
| Great experience with audio society and local tech @dekay both. Yes, mix tape! | |
| Pass Labs XA25 without preamp (from a variable output source) vs INT25 I'm trying it now. It works really well and is sounding excellent. Volume control via Apple Music for me. | |
| Pass Labs XA25 without preamp (from a variable output source) vs INT25 I have exactly this question! This may help? https://www.audioshark.org/pass-labs-71/pass-xa25-14006-page2.html#post285047 | |
| Great experience with audio society and local tech @pmm I don't feel at liberty to broadcast the tech's name. Anyone who wishes can message me. @jjss49 True enough. | |
| Great experience with audio society and local tech @pmm "Thanks a bunch" is a pretty insulting way to elucidate more information. Sorry to not give you a complete road map. Perhaps google "Colorado" and "audio society" and make your way forward. | |
| Great experience with audio society and local tech Colorado | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior I would listen to jea48 especially. Smart man. Left wall first 4 ft is solid, then 7ft opening to adjacent room then solid to rear. Here I want to emphasize the following loaded comment: "Hmmmm." | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts @dekay Bingo! It's my gimp mask. Or, perhaps it's my T shirt that says, "I have a first world problem and you're gonna solve it for me." |