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| Voltage conversion of Accuphase A-300 I'd contact Accuphase directly. They should be able to point you the proper licensed service center/tech who can do the change. | |
| Yamaha A4A Receiver or specific pre amp? np. Only thing I can suggest, if you haven't already done so, is work with the built in DSP to see if you can adjust out the harshness and sound balance. Good Luck, -Jeff | |
| Yamaha A4A Receiver or specific pre amp? @rustyd02359 Sorry, I didn't make the proper connections in my brain last night. As I mentioned, there are quite a few dedicated "preamp/processors" out there. However, new, most are going to run you north of $3000. They are going to have a... | |
| Yamaha A4A Receiver or specific pre amp? You looking to maintain the home theater multichannel or shifting to just 2 channel stereo? What are you trying to achive or make better? Quickly, if staying in the home theater market, yes, there are many. Just Google "a/v processor" or "home ... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers I agree that flat wood would not be any better. But if you use (for say a 65" screen) either 4 standard 24x48x2 inch acoustic absorbation panels or similar size dispersion panels (like yours) just large enough to cover the opening of the "box" bu... | |
| What is your scariest moment in High End audio? Not the scariest, but the craziest.... Had an old slot fed CD player that the eject and stop buttons on the remote were right next to each other. I hit the eject button and it shot the CD out before it stopped spinning. A 200 rpm frisbee of dea... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers I've been experimenting as well. One approach I'm looking at is to mount the TV on the wall, build a frame or box around the screen and then, using barn door sliding brackets to open and close doors covered either with acoustic absorbation or dif... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes To comment on a "Clean Network"... @sns - As you said, the WiFi signal is very noisy. What everyone forgets is that WiFi is a radio signal. So is the celluar signal your cell phone uses. And if your equipment, and not just your streamer, is no... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @devinplombier That said, big iron is fun! But if the yardstick is sound quality, enterprise-grade hardware will neither help nor harm, though as noted you’ll have to exile it to the basement and acquire serious network skills to operate it. ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes +1 @mswale He is 100% correct. Thanks for bringing that up. I should have done so myself. Enterprise networking equipment is not for the amateur or weekend warrior in computers. I have 40 years in the business and have built, upgraded and ma... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? And you can always go with two stereo amps and bi-amp the speakers if you want the "monoblock" aesthetic (and I use that word very loosely). It isn't always about power or wattage. Amp design and their inherent "sound" usually more important, wh... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @yoyoyaya - Thanks, I got lucky. A local business went under and I managed to pick up a bunch of their equipment super cheap prior to the public auction. Thing is, if you know what you are looking for, you can pick up a lot of refurbed Cisco and... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @yoyoyaya @jeffbij re "Even a CD player has safeguards to guard against read errors, it’s called oversampling." CD error correction is based in Cross Interleave Reed Solomon coding. Oversampling is primarily used to allow shallower slope anti... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? @dman777 - You don't mention what speakers you are using. I'm suprised no one has mentioned it yet, There is one thing that happens when you bridge a stereo amp. The amp will see the speaker impedience load to be one half of the rating. I.e... | |
| Best Cheap DAC Streamer The WiiM's are also Amazon Alexa enabled. So you do have a level of voice control. How well it handles the voice commands, I don't know. |