immatthewj
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| I guess I need a new multimeter. . . . what I had been thinking was that when turned to mA it automatically defaults to DC mA and maybe when I use the mode button to switch to DC mA that, although it says it is in DC, it is not always actually switching to DC? | |
| Best Covers I've been auditioning/breaking in some new speakers and in the process I have been playing CDs I bought almost 30 years ago and barely listened to, and maybe it's the quality of the speakers or maybe it's the way my listening has either evolved or... | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To . . . here's another one I bought back in the late 90s that I just played today and really enjoyed, although I probably hadn't played it but a half dozen times (if that many): Dave's True Story, the Sex Without Bodies CD (a Chesky aluminum disc, ... | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To @simao +1 on that! If I had a TT, I know that I would have a few Patricia Barber LPs. Ten Song Demo is incredible, so amazingly great. @rpeluso , I find it hard to understand why that didn't hit me when I bought it almost 30 years ago! I... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? IMO, this would qualify as a high quality (sonically) charity price hifi rig for any younger or older person w.r.t small room nearfield or midfield listening. I am surprised that you have not repurposed a mansion somewhere so she could use that... | |
| I guess I need a new multimeter. You could also have bad leads, by the way. Thanks, @erik_squires , I got to thinking about the "bias jack/plug leads" but not about the meter leads. That actually sounds more likely than the meter intermittently not working on only DC mA doe... | |
| Need help choosing preamp for streaming Is it recommended to purchase the tubes from Schitt, or would I do better purchasing them elsewhere? I was going to type that it would probably be shipped with tubes, but I just went to Schitt’s site and saw the same thing that I guess you did.... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? (On that note, i still probably listen louder than most guys on this forum). I would expect nothing less of you. | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To . . . Holly Cole Trio It Happened One Night released in ’96(?) and I know that I bought it in the ’90s, but I didn’t listen to it closely enough to realize how good it is until ’18 or ’19. Same with Patricia Barber/Cafe Blue . . . I bought the re... | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To For me I guess mostly it's CDs, but for the purposes of this thread that might be okay? There are several I am pretty sure, but at the moment I cannot think of most of them. Back when I was in the Air Force in around '79 I made friends with this... | |
| Plugging rear ports of "bookshelf" speakers? "Bookshelf speakers" and "too much bass" do not often exist simultaneously. "Too much" was probably not what I meant when I typed "unruly bass," @carlsbad2 . Also, it's not that they are on a bookshelf, maybe I shouldn't have called them that... | |
| I guess I need a new multimeter. Get a Fluke. That may be the way I go. I went to Radioshack's site (I haven't been there for at least a year or more) and I don't know what's up with them anymore. I found a Fluke on 'Zon for $129 that will do anything I need done. | |
| Why are high efficiency speakers preferred for low volume listening? Thanks, @ditusa , I am going to have to print that because my eyes are so bad I cannot read that on the screen. | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Wow. Does this ring any bells? Sorry to burst your bubble, but, a 11 by 12 closet is not hifi, it is about as lofi as it gets for a room. That Hegel isn’t hifi either. Hence, you’re just not a hifi guy anymore ..you are a midfi/lofi kinda guy (... | |
| Why are high efficiency speakers preferred for low volume listening? @immatthewj No, I was more suggesting the idea that if the speaker were 91 dB instead of 86, that the amplifier would be doing far less work. You could get the same sound pressure you do now with 1/4th the power. So your 50 Watts would be much cl... |