jeffbij
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| Picking a power amp Also, don't under estimate the effect of the room will have on your choices. You mentioned that it is 12x20. Will you be putting the speakers on the short or long wall? What else is in the room? Carpeted? Lots of windows? Any acoustic room t... | |
| Chronos tweak at Axpona Here is a link to a picture that I found on their Facebook page. It looks to be some kind of USB device (the square thing it is plugged into is a portable battery pack). Looks to me like just another gadget for people with too much money to wast... | |
| Picking a power amp Go with the speakers first. Which speakers you choose will impact your pre amp and amp choices. Not just power ratings, but the amp technology. (tubes vs SS, class A vs class A/B vs class D, etc.) | |
| Chronos tweak at Axpona The question still exists.... What do the thing actually do? It says you can put it in a different room and it will do... something...??? but don't put it close to a computer or device that has to read/write to storage medium because it will c... | |
| Chronos tweak at Axpona (Not saying that the device doesn't work, etc.) But I find it interesting when you go to a company's web site, you see a slick set of background pictures, quotes, and general statements about their product, but you never even see the actual produc... | |
| 2 Channel system sounds weak and lackluster +1 @rick_n The reflections are going to play havoc with the sound. I agree that before you start swapping out equipment, work on the seating position and try some makeshift acoustic treatments just to see where that takes the sound. Throw do... | |
| how can I insure a shipment for more than $10,000 A few additional things you should do if you ship high dollar value items (above the maximum insurance levels) with FedEx or UPS. The company I worked for prior to my retirement used to ship high value metals all the time and FedEx/UPS provided ... | |
| Looking to upgrade from Emotiva XPA-1 monoblocks @tkn42 - The LSA Warp 1's look interesting. I would suggest that you also try and audition a couple of class A or A/B amps that are higher up in the pecking order than the XPA's as well. Also, keep in mind that class D amps can sound a little d... | |
| Looking to upgrade from Emotiva XPA-1 monoblocks @tkn42 - Before dropping any $ right away, if you can borrow a few different amps, just to drop into your system for a day or two and hear what other possibilities sound like. You might find that the edginess goes away, or maybe it doesn't. As... | |
| Need advice from the gurus. @tubeguy76 - Do you think there is any appreciable difference between a true balanced circuit and Gato’s implementation? I assume as long as the circuits are well designed it should be good regardless. Honestly, at the price point of the G... | |
| Need advice from the gurus. @cleeds - I did some Googling and based on what I read, there is a slight difference between the fully (or truly) balanced and a differentially balanced circuit. Not in the fact that one is balanced and one is not, but rather on how the balanced a... | |
| Thoughts on using a smart plug on intergrated amp. @rbull11 Excellent. Glad it is working so easily with the WiiM Pro. Let's declare Victory and take a nap! - Jeff | |
| Need advice from the gurus. @cleeds I'm not sure what you mean by 'two channels" and the term "fully balanced" is rather ambiguous. (Just to stress, I am not an expert. This is just what my understanding is, which maybe wrong. So I welcome better clarification and a c... | |
| Need advice from the gurus. So, balanced connections but not a fully balanced circuit. That's ok. Still worth getting hold of a pair of decent balanced cables and seeing how it sounds with using the Gato as a preamp with the monoblocks. | |
| Need advice from the gurus. @cleeds If I was off-base, then apologies and I stand corrected.... My understanding has always been that in a fully balanced system, the 2 channels are completely separated from the input through to the output while something that just conve... |