jeffbij
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| The Power Plant Regenerator debate drags on The power in my neighborhood is horrible. Old infrastructure, power lines still on poles, and overdeveloped in the last 20 years. Voltage swings, especially in the summer (think all the air conditioners), are significant. Momentary drop outs ar... | |
| Directional wires/cables @audioman58 - The nitrogen atmosphere in the drawing process is to prevent the surface of the copper from oxidizing. If the surface is oxidized, it will have a higher hardness level and create smaller grain sizes when drawn. Smaller the grain... | |
| Directional wires/cables Matthew, I've been told the same thing by a different cable company. When reading the writing, the flow is left to right. As for the "learning" the direction, I've heard that as well. While electron flow over time will affect the grain structu... | |
| Directional wires/cables @soix - if a cable is shielded, then it should only be grounded on one end, usually on the source side. If you ground both sides, then you are creating another full circuit and turning it into an antenna. @billpete - I worked for company for... | |
| levinson 26 to replace adcom 565 I can believe it. A good preamp can change everything. Next to speakers, the preamp can be the heart of a good system. As for volume setting being low, the Levinson has a higher gain (i.e. raising the input signal) than the GFP-565. And with t... | |
| Need a little help Sorry to confuse you more. The "high level" speaker outputs on the NAD are the speaker connections, i.e. where you connect the speakers to. Unfortunately the sub doesn't except high level inputs. Good thing is that it does have L and R connecti... | |
| Need a little help Since my last post, I've been thinking on what you are trying to do. What is the make/model sub you have? Since the NAD is an integrated amp, you do have one additional set of outputs on it, the high level speaker outs. You might be able to d... | |
| levinson 26 to replace adcom 565 Once you get everything in and have had time to settle everything in, let us know how it turns out. And don't forget to give the Hana cartridge time to break in. | |
| Need a Streamer +1 audphile.... and to the OP, just to clarify, you said "sometimes Tidal" comes through Bright. Is this for just a few or occasional tracks or everything from Tidal during a time period? | |
| Need a little help From what I think you are saying, the answer is no. You can't feed on channel (L or R) to the amps (and then onto the speakers) and the other channel to just the sub. You have to keep the channels isolated from eachother, left channel going to t... | |
| Is the problem end of life or the new processor? I wouldn't write them off just yet. Have them checked out/evaluated by a compentent repair shop. It could be something easy and cheap to repair. They could just need a good deep cleaning. (I'm guessing that they stood on or close to the floor f... | |
| Need a little help Isn't the C368 an integrated amp? Are you just looking to only use the preamp out connections then? And with the B&W 706's, I'm inclined to think that you aren't gaining much, if anything, in the way of improvement with bi-amping them. You ... | |
| Need a little help Just out of curiosity, what model NAD preamp is this? and what model B&W's? | |
| Roon One Question jaykojc You are correct that the Roon will only allow a license to be used on a single server/network. You could get highly creative and establish a secure VPN between the lake and home, but that would require some work and additional hardware/s... | |
| Digital Advice With the budget you have, what I would do is drop the $600 on a used DAC and serviceable USB cable for the repurposed MAC. Right now, that would be the biggest bang for your buck and give you a better upgrade path for the future. And if you don'... |