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| Will accidental max volume damage a speaker? As many have already said, you would know (i hope) if you did any damage. Speakers fail mostly due to heat. the voice coil, the electromagnet that moves the speaker cone/dome/whatever is wound with very small wire. Over time it gets hot and !poo... | |
| CDP or DAC? Rather than answer "CDP vs DAC" with specific suggestions, I’ll give some general thoughts on the two categories.first, you understand a CDP contains a DAC, right? So its rally just a packaging question - and comes down to what’s available int he ... | |
| Best Preamp and Amp combination, interesting finding!!! So many logical answers fgit that data without fitting your conclusion. Three pop to mind:1. Its a very good $1k amp and a so-so $3k amp2. You have impedance matching issues that one preamp solved and the other didn't3. the 1k amp solves a speaker... | |
| What is the most important component to consider while building a new system? Like Paul I make some portion of my money selling electronics or at least designing them I totally agree the answer is speakers. No I would say to more important things are the room in the recording/mastering but those are not part of your “system” | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? If i may make two comments to @mattmiller:1. Actually, while one can spend a lot on a system and get poor results it is quite relevant if a user has a highly resolving system vs. less so. And $10k in a system by high end standards is -- choke -- n... | |
| I really could use some help here..... In general bi-wiring means that you can run independent wires to the tweeter and woofers. It is different from bi-amping in that no additional filters are added - the entire signal goes to both. I fail to see the benefit frankly.Anyhooo. You ha... | |
| Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System? Sure. Serious listening can be a a really involving experience, but like most involving experiences, it is actually work. I often find it easier and more what i want to play music on other systems more int eh background - rather than go, sit in o... | |
| any suggestions on what to replace Bluesound Node 2i with I’d back up and re-think your architecture. Problem #1 is that you really didn’t describe one. Exactly what functions is the streamer performing? How many DACs if any? Where? How connected?This has huge impact on whether the streamer makes much di... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Any 28 gauge? LOLHonestly, if you need warm cables as tone controls you might address the fundamentals first; or put a very gentle LPF between your amp and preamp. | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. you might enjoy a book called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" | |
| Will the placement of casters on speaker stands degrade the performance Will you care? none of us can say. Will it technically degrade the sound? Absolutely. It will allow more motion of the entire speaker assembly, which modulates the transducer. An ideal speaker would have zero motion. Castors are wheels. With b... | |
| Recording to test right and left channels... what are you unsure of?Is this cartridge pin wire uncertainty?Interconnects between turntable and preamp?CD and preamp?what?If its beyond the cartridge just pull one RCA and see what sound remains (with the speaker disconnected and/or amp off of c... | |
| Difference between ESS Sabre Burr Brown Wolfson DACs to the comments on ladders vs chips - they are in fact all chips (with very few, expensive exceptions).Cheapest R2R used semiconducor resistors in ladder; best use(d) hybrid film resistors. Many modern ones used discrete resistors at very high cos... | |
| Is usb reclocking necessary? @mijostyn says:No. Only unclocked USB signals need to be clocked. With modern clocks reclocking is unnecessary. Well, that appears true on the surface. And most people don't specify enough configuration data to rally know. But let me be very clear... | |
| Is usb reclocking necessary? I will point out that the clock anomalies ARE analog :-).. and have direct analog implications.I will also add something i ought to have said earlier but neglected to: proper clocking inside the DAC (either between the USB interface and the inter... |