jji666
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| OK - Now What…? It’s a bit of fighting the addiction, but "in my experience," upgrades for upgrades sake are rarely successful - i.e. you are better off if you have a goal in mind.I’ve found that your system will influence what you listen to - artists and genres ... | |
| Listening to digital and analog People don't want to hear this, but good digital takes an entirely different skill set. Not unlike analog, you cannot just spend your way to good sound. There are things you need to understand to do it well, but the logic is different from analog... | |
| Roon: anyone else experience slowdowns after usage? My library is "medium" I guess, compared to many of the Roon forum posters. About 8000 albums, 4000 local ripped CDs and 4000 combined from Tidal and Qobuz.Not to be argumentative, but how would being patient help? I'm not sure what you mean. W... | |
| Roon: anyone else experience slowdowns after usage? For the core on the Windows 10 machine I use the full app that is core plus the interface. There's no network in between that, obviously. I do have other remotes that are ios and Win 10 and there is a network between those. There's a 10G hop bet... | |
| Roon: anyone else experience slowdowns after usage? Thanks all. I should have specified that my setup is Win 10 and it seems like this issue is mostly a Win 10 one, albeit I have seen other complaints of a similar issue on various Mac OS. Everyone says that Rock seems to be more stable as are als... | |
| Speaker suggestions please - going to the BIG city In Chicago, near Buena Park: Saturday Audio Exchange on Belmont at about Sheffield. | |
| Class A amplifiers The OP is asking about Levinson gear. At least the classic era Levinsons, some of them do cook themselves to death. I have a No.23 and the repair job is going to be near $3000. The authorized repair center explained that the Levinsons do tend to... | |
| Complete Proprietary Systems Seems like there are lots of manufacturers that make all the basic components needed to assemble a system. I'm not sure though if that is the same thing as specific components designed to work synergistically together, or to complEment each other... | |
| I heard the Box If everyone would limit themselves to rock music, there'd be no realism issue. All rock music originates from amplified boxes when played live anyway!BTW my rebuilt Maggie 3.3rs with a pair of DWM woofers and 2 REL subs have quite a bit of bass a... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST TOUCHY SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? A Day in the Life.WTF with that YouTube link? | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt Nakamichi PA-7 | |
| Preamp tubes in power amps Thanks everyone for their feedback.Regarding the above comments, I suspect that their concern about the VK-3i actually came from my experience. That happened nearly 10 years ago and so I assume that Upscale Audio has updated their information reg... | |
| Preamp tubes in power amps Thank you. This is helpful advice. Upscale didn’t know. I don’t think they should be quite so certain in their marketing materials that 7DJ8s work anywhere. But I couldn’t say that there was anything specifically said to me, or omitted, that was ... | |
| Preamp tubes in power amps Thanks again. Yes I did tell Upscale about the issue. They tested all the tubes and sent the survivors back to me, but I haven’t used them as the only 6922 sockets I have are in the BAT. I can’t put them back in there.The only gripe I have abou... | |
| Preamp tubes in power amps Thanks! I’ve dealt with Kevin at Upscale. They sold me a bunch of 7DJ8s that they promised were fine substitutes for 6922s but my BAT destroyed them, and Victor at BAT said he had no idea why someone would represent 7DJ8s as suitable. I know th... |