ivan_nosnibor
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| Parasound Halo A21 - Power conditioner? Halo Dealer may just be referring to the known sonic shortcommings of using traditional power conditioners, particularly when it comes to amps which are dynamically dependent on using the most watts, the loss of macrodynamics being the most common... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Doh!!, just reread your OP and realised you're looking for specific advice, not general, sorry. My vote (of the 3 you mention) might be for the DAC2, provided you feel 16 db of attenuation is ok for you. This would inherently be a bit better (or a... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Hi Robert, whether going digital or analog with attenuation it's all really about the impedance matching. Just like having to impedance match your speakers with your amps, you also have to do the same with your source and your amp, if you haven't ... | |
| Y connector from pre-out to powered sub and... This will not present a hazard, but it will be very slightly less than ideal sonically - just a very slight (and I believe quite tolerable) whitening up of the highs in the CJ. The determining factor will likely be whether or not the CJ actually h... | |
| Amp design logic (oops, hit the post button too soon). These people approach buying audio the way they may buy a new car for themselves - they may ask their friends what they like, take a peek on the internet to see what folks are saying about it and they may also... | |
| Amp design logic You're right that the total components don't nearly add up to $50k. What you're basically paying for, apart from good design and execution, is for the most part the sheer mystique that such a product has - especially the mystique that becomes atta... | |
| best sound for a classical and jazz cd I guess you're already familiar with Mapleshade for Jazz?? | |
| Digital vs Analog - A supposition... I tend to be of the opinion that analog (of sufficient quality) tends to be at least as good as or better than digital as a rule. HOWEVER, I've come to the conclusion over the years that vinyl (noiseless though it indeed may be under proper circum... | |
| SameSspeaker Cable and Interconnects The general model that I think wiring makers tend to follow is the notion that each of the 3 physical elements of cable design (connectors, conductors and insulation) of any given wire necessarily contibute, in their own unique ways, to sonic degr... | |
| Any way to reduce pre-amp noise floor? I take it the noise is apparently equally loud in both channels? Did you yourself ever buy a new tube (stock or any other kind) for the CJ before the tube you have now, and do you recall running into this issue then (or any other time with your sy... | |
| Any way to reduce pre-amp noise floor? All that said, a noisy tube could very well be the culprit though if there's no noise at zero volume. | |
| Any way to reduce pre-amp noise floor? If you believe your system otherwise checks out and there are no identifiable connection problems, grounding issues or faulty components and all that, then you are very likely indeed looking at electronic noise. This can be thought of as noise fro... | |
| CLEARVIEW BALANCED EXCALIBUR RIBBON INTERCONNECTS I have the non-Plus balanced Excaliburs and have been very happy with them. They do everything right, do nothing wrong and are excellent right from the word go. They are in effect invisible. The Plus versions promise to be a bit more delicately de... | |
| CD direct to monobloks? To see if you're a likely candidate for bypassing your preamp you can try an experiment: take any CD you know is comparatively quietly recorded and hook up your CD straight into the mono's, but be sure to start with your volume on the CDP all the ... | |
| CD direct to monobloks? Hi Tiofelon, ordinarily this can be a great idea, but certain requirements must be met or else it's plainly not worth it. What you stand to gain by this method is the elimination of an entire component from the signal path (preamp), which, unless ... |