jaytor
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| Preamp recommendation If you are interested in the Parasound JC2-BP, I have one for sale on USAM - less than two years old and in excellent condition. I'm the original owner. | |
| Can Monoblock be split for analog and digital Something like this would probably work. I'm not sure how good the connectors are, but it's relatively inexpensive to give it a try. https://www.amazon.com/Balanced-Audio-Switcher-Passive-Splitter/dp/B07THHFJMT | |
| Can Monoblock be split for analog and digital If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting having the output of two different devices connected together to drive the same amp, with the expectation that only one would be powered on. Depending on the circuitry of each device (which I am not... | |
| Roon+Multiple Zones with 2 Dacs. I think you will have timing issues. While Roon does a pretty good job synchronizing multiple zones, you'd need synchronization within a few milliseconds to keep phase errors from causing frequency response problems. Synchronization accuracy is no... | |
| High end Class D amps? The D in class D has nothing to do with digital. This amplifier topology just happened to be the fourth (after A, B, and C) to be described and was assigned the letter D. It does so happen that class D switches the output transistors, but then so ... | |
| To Roon or not I've been very happy with Roon. After my annual subscription expired, I opted for the lifetime subscription (about 1 1/2 years ago). Roon has made a number of improvements since I've started using it. This spring, I built a new Roon server based o... | |
| Personal speaker evolution BIC Venturi $250Genesis Model 2 $300ESS Amt-1b $800Magnepan MG-1 $650Magnepan MG-2 $800Arial Model One (different company than current?) $1500Magneplaner Tympani IV $3800Duntech Sovereign $14,000Revel Ultima GEM with Revel Subs $11.000Revel Studio... | |
| Planar speaker characteristics I've owned four pair of Magnepans over the years - MG1s, MG2s, Tympani IVs, MG3.6r. Needless to say, there is a lot I liked about them. For most of my years as an audiophile, I switched back and forth between Magnepans and more conventional box sp... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- Yes, the Purifi module is class D and I agree that class D amps can sound too sterile. I had an NCore based class-D amp previously and that is how I would describe it. However, the sound signature of amps based on the newer modules (particularly t... | |
| Compare Purif-based amp vs Class A/B (Code No 8/ Halo JC-5/ Pass X-250/ Anthem STR) I can't answer yet, but I'm building a DIY amp using the Purifi modules and also have a JC-5. The sound signature of the Purifi is going to depend a lot on the front-end driver. The Purifi module has low input impedance (1.5K to 2.2K depending on ... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- You could consider a class D amp with a tube input buffer. The Purifi modules add very little of their own sound signature, but require a front-end driver board to provide some gain and impedance matching. There are a couple of companies that make... | |
| GR Research NX-Extreme It does take a decent size room I think, but I found it took less effort to get them (the NX-Otica with triple-stack OB servo subs in my case) to sound quite good compared to conventional box speakers I've owned. I have a fairly big room (17' x 29... | |
| RCA to XLR cables Besides the drop in gain, the main thing you are losing is the common mode rejection that balanced cables (and connections) provide. In other words, any noise picked up by the cable is usually picked up by both the positive and negative phase cond... | |
| Favorite song to demo or test drive speakers? Some great music here. Thanks for all the suggestions. I've found some artists I like that I wasn't aware of. Here's a few a like. I think a few of these might have been listed already."Birds" by Dominique Fils-Aime on Nameless "Kiss in Blue" by ... | |
| Is buying a used Roon nucleus plus ok? The Nucleus is basically an Intel NUC in a fanless case. The OS and database run of the M2 SSD drive. Since it stores the database, it gets a lot of write operations, which will, over time, degrade the drive. Depending on the quality of the drive ... |