hilde45
Responses from hilde45
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Agree with preceding. Swap with other cables. SPL tests each time. I'd want to know how acoustically symmetrical your room was, overall. You could play some white noise on and walk around the room with your spl meter/phone on and just see what h... | |
| Subwoofer cable question Stereo subs make a difference? Answer: It depends. This answer can be found in multiple places. Here’s one. "While low frequencies are less directional, and the direction of a low-frequency sine-wave point-source may be less perceptible, critica... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided @jjss49 Well said and I agree. It's not a bad way to decide on medical advice. Don't trust the loudest voices or the ones with agendas behind their advice. @douglas_schroeder Appreciate your comment very much, and your reviews always educate me... | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts I appreciate dealer arrogance. What right do I have to be there? Poseur! Scum! Throw me out! Spit on me! I deserve it! | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon I suppose my point about polarization wasn’t made clearly. I apologize. @tommylion I think I get your point better, now. Some people are really aggressive and even trolling in their posts, and that’s what an "ignore" button would help with. Have ... | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon The feature you're proposing would be contributing to polarization. By vanishing those voices or opinions one doesn't like, one tends to become more confirmed in their own views, and this actually pushes groups further out to extremes they might n... | |
| Help, which preamp to buy from my shortlist? Love my Quicksilver. | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere Things not mentioned so far which might be good: AudioNote deHavilland Herron Don Sachs SupraTek | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max @mesch Good to know! I looked extensively for a used version. XA25 is now selling pretty readily used at $3.5k at least, more than that with warranty. Would love to try Coda. | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided So all these people have advice to give. What I’m wondering now is, is advice from a person who’s never content, constantly changing their system, never living with a system for long enough, and have more money than patience, really the right per... | |
| Next upgrade? @sounasega You sound like you’re in good shape. I really think that speaker, listening position, and room acoustics are the next step. I bought a Umik and downloaded REW software. Using that to analyze the tonality and reverberation in my room -- ... | |
| A guy asks a question about high efficiency speakers........ Cancel culture eating its own. Who coulda seen that one coming? Stop spamming your own brain. Use Occam's Razor instead. A hermeneutics of suspicion just clouds thinking. | |
| Next upgrade? +1 @artemus_5 Exactly my thought. Mod that DAC, baby. | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max Bit of an update. I decided to get the Pass XA-25 via Reno HiFi. Very happy with the price, condition, warranty, and service. So far, I'm finding it a remarkable sounding amp. Never harsh, never lacking power, voices very intimate and present, so... | |
| Dedicated 20 Amp Line for Audio The advice I followed was to do multiple lines, but to make them with the same length of wire. I have the following: 1 line for amps 1 line for preamps, with the same length of wire 1 line for digital components I also ran 1 for subwoofers an... |