iseland
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| Why is everyone so down on MQA? As I recall Tidal upsampled some redbook with mqa and that was not always well received ( google Neil Young and Tidal.. On the other hand I did bought some excellent mqa cds like the Hoff Ensemble, Polarity! ... | |
| DAC league table Marantz have product in a wide price range, just saying 😉 | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. At this moment, yellow brick road . | |
| Perception and Watts: Doubling of power @johnnycamp5 you are absolutely correct, was a bit tiered at that moment.. | |
| Perception and Watts: Doubling of power Usually an increase by 3db is doubling the spl , so raising by 10 db is kinda triple the spl and Watts is what you feed the speaker depending on sensitivity of the speaker. But you all know this by now 😁 | |
| Bad Cornwall IV? Take a look at GR research Youtube chanel and search klipch! | |
| Cables to settle brightness That old misconception " silver is bright " might not apply since op haven't mentioned having any kind of silver/ silver over copper cable in his/her system. I do share the opinion that using cable as equaliser is a bad idea, changing equipment ... | |
| Speakers "Is the Allen wrench standard, or metric?" metric is kind of the standard on this planet 😉 | |
| Perspective system advise needed. And don't forget about room treatments, dsp does nothing for reverb which smear sound stage immensely. I don't know if I phrased that correctly since I'm from Sweden and the grammar police might catch me 😨 | |
| Can you vote on this song, 1 being brilliant, 5 being crap 5 | |
| Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable I would probably blame the speaker more than the cable but that's just me 🤔 | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Feels nice to be seen as a teenager again after 3 decades 😆 | |
| Bought an Audio Research Amp @rfnoise I did the mod my self , needed to change the voltage regulators for the heaters to higher ampere . as for rolling 6h30 tubes, you could try 6n6p . It's a drop in replacement but with lower current draw . | |
| Bought an Audio Research Amp Me too fell in the audio research trap 3 years ago, there's no coming back.. After some mods I now have 6n1p on input and 6n6p out in my ls25 mk1 .. Some day I might have the means to get my self the ear 912 pre , and that may be the end but fo... | |
| Qobuz Skipping or Short Pauses I had the same problem, solved it by switching dns in my router to fixed. There's plenty tutorials on YouTube if you don't know what I'm talking about. Good luck. |