jjss49
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| Proac Speakers & Isoacoustics Gaia i have always grounded my proacs with spikes but then again i have always had listening rooms with hard concrete floors under any carpet and sheathing, go mechanical grounding works as it should | |
| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? if you go vintage it is not just the purchase cost but also the cost to maintain and repair (rotten driver surrounds, bulging caps in crossovers etc) so one shd bear that in mind i would say unless you are a serious hobbyist with repair skills or... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? this was back in the day, but my memory of what i thought remains pretty clear the sony es series cd players (which played sacd’s as well) were excellent - smooth detailed liquid impactful sound the other cdp that was also quite highly regarded ... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier Hello Frank, The curiosity centers on how is 75 watts of power derived from the lightweight diminutive transformers? Charles i am an owner of your carver 275 amp, actually like it alot, sounds very nice, wrote previously about my experience ... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier @atmasphere the amp weighs 19.4 lbs by my scale, with no ac cord attached, tubes in place here is the asr thread, ralph, it is long, jim clark responds on pg 6, and the conversation ensues from there, with photos from carverfest where kits were... | |
| Can someone suggest a lush tube integrated under $3000 used I always end up getting bored of Lush sounding gear, at first its all sweet and dandy. true if the sound is lush without resolving power, but there are (usually higher end) excellent sounding options that provides both | |
| Amplfiers that Sound like Pass 30.8 that are not so heavy just summarizing a bit for op - with units worth considering imo (sound quality all on par, and outstanding, just somewhat differing sonic characters) pass xa30.8 @ 88 lbs as reference ____________________________________________________________... | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? live music comes in many forms music can be performed live but amplified by p-a systems - electric/synthesized instruments are of course processed at the outset, that is their sound... to me this explains why there can often be such divergent ta... | |
| Recommendation for Digital Coax Optical cannot handle higher resolution audio files. SPDIF can. ’spdif’ (sony philips digital interface) is a digital music data transfer format that can be transmitted/received either optically (toslink) or electrically (rca/bnc) https://www.... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? very good unit | |
| Recommendation for Digital Coax Why not optical? plenty of reasons, the search bar above is your friend | |
| 30 to 50 watts seems to be all I desire there is a difference between a speaker being sufficiently driven versus the same speaker being driven to show all it can do at higher volumes alot depends on the type of music, how much dynamic range is needed smaller wattage amps often do the ... | |
| Weiss 501 DAC i really really like my dac501 --- great sound, great ergonomics, great features, all around a top notch package, simply beyond reproach | |
| Recommendation for Digital Coax i use 1.25 to 1.5 m length for coax/bnc terminated digital cables | |
| Why are there so few BNC cables to choose from Why are there so few BNC cables to choose from And is there a big difference between them? @curiousjim the above is what you said, so a number of us responded i typed in 'bnc digital audio cable' into google and about 50 options popped u... |