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| What direction should I go Waiting for @jasonbourne52 to appear and tell you all you need is a 100.00 DAC connected to a 50.00 DVD player.... To be fair, an iPad with a dongle into some RCAs, is what I often use to check the system. If one doesn’t like that, then it is n... | |
| Underpowered? can't believe it's not enough power unless you're in a monster size room. Systems have oomph if they're dynamically linear and that can be limited by a speaker with a lousy impedance load and/or an amp that can't handle the load. My gut feeling i... | |
| Underpowered? So what do you guys think? Is it normal for a speaker that’s rated 30-300W to be underpowered with a 100W amp?? What would you do: Sell the 702s and look for a better match for my MA252? Upgrade the MA252 (MA352? Michi X3? NAD 33?)? ... | |
| your first system- Around ‘84… SOTA Saffire, SEAC arm, AQ cartridge PSE preamp and amp, Vandersteen 2C | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” I am pretty deluded and very disappointed but not with my HIFI. I've been to two Los Lobos concerts the first at the zoo (outside) was the second best I've ever attended. My most recent was the second worst I've ever attended. The sound guy m... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Well likely flying through SFO soon, so it seemed good to ask. I don’t think I will be packing up a TT as luggage though. ;) | |
| Need sensitive bass situation @tubebuffer Is the daughter smoking too? | |
| Naim? By the way the ML2 25 watt monobloc was ... It was Class A with 1 Farad of supply capacitance and weighed over 100 lbs. 100 watts at 2 ohms. … I suspect that a 1F capacitance would benefit from one of those fancy silver power cords to inc... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? @larsman you are not the fellow with the old 240v TT up for sale in SF are you? | |
| Phono cables As an observation: If the previous components never hummed, then I am not sure an integrated was a step up. Is it better some other ways? If the Aural Thrills are the only cables that do not hum, then why try even more cables? Alternatively ... | |
| Naim? Damned double posts… I listened to one a few months ago powering some 27 k$ focals. It sounded good, A week later I head some 3-4 k$ speakers powered by a SOTA class-D ~2k$ amp and it sounded about the same. I suppose it is, “A rose by any othe... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? @mglik But hey, I too am happy that this thread has not devolved into some quasi political diatribe. This is what happened to my several past attempts to start a thread about my desire to understand and enjoy Rap. It took me a long time to ab... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Looks like out of 4 responses, I am in the minority again. However Dirac Live, and other EQ systems, sort of make the opinions that it makes bad sound seem a bit more like opinions than anything based in fact. For example, the Lyngdorf “Room Per... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? @asvjerry there are not many groups that do the rap songs about retired (pensioners) protecting pole dancers… like the example I posted earlier. @rixthetrick that esso is good,.. ta | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? This list turned out to be not very "musical" and therefore not very listenable. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick (Children's Story is a masterpiece) NAS - Illmatic Outkast - Stankonia Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill The Kan... |