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| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil Thank you for taking the time to answer the question. I'm just glad to see some folks take the time and the expense to experiment and share their results. Given that the results are system/circuit dependent, I guess I'll need to perform my own exp... | |
| Subwoofer matching "...also, "speed" is a silly term and I don't think it's applicable to subs or really anything else in audio."Perhaps in your opinion and in your experience, but not in mine. I have tried various different combinations of three powered subwoofers;... | |
| What creates the effortlessness in sound reproduction? "The rule of thumb I use is the system doesn't ever sound loud, even when at 100dB..."Exactly my experience. | |
| Smoke on my power amp I think you’d be hard pressed to find anything new less than $5K or even more to replace the SA-102. Selling it as is would be a big loss (to you) or perhaps a great gain for someone else who can fix it and enjoy it. Your money your choice.Where a... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil Thanks. I’m not questioning the results, one way or the other, just wondering why and how it makes a difference. Apparently, in the chip design the different value and material parallel/bypass capacitors are used to push the inductance of the capa... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil Could someone explain why adding a 0.01uF capacitor in parallel/bypass with a 2.2uF capacitor improves sound quality? If this is way off topic and I’ll delete the post and ask elsewhere.Thanks. | |
| Subwoofer matching Aside from matching the listening volumes, in my experience the bigger issue is matching the ‘speed’ of the subwoofer driver(s) with your horn system. The suggestion of using multiple small driver subwoofers is much better than using one or two la... | |
| What have you found to be a good classic Jazz online station? ++ WBGO, excellent programming. | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil Sorry if I’m asking the obvious but when changing brands do you always use the same exact uF value as replacement/upgrade? I suspect the answer is yes but I still wondered if the different material construction, design technology, etc., or even th... | |
| Smoke on my power amp Most amplifiers have a protection circuit that should prevent damage when the speaker wires are shorted. My Vincent and McIntosh amps both shut off immediately when that happens...Don't ask me how I know.... | |
| Tube Buffer Maybe I missed it but what power amplifier are you using? Aside from the general tube "warmth", what you might be experiencing is an impedance mismatch between the preamp output and the amplifier input and engaging the tube buffer could possibly c... | |
| Low Cost DACs Schiit Modi or Modi Multibit are also good options. | |
| Low Cost DACs I think you’ll be better off, sound quality wise and may be even cost wise, if you just get a dedicated streamer/DAC instead of inserting something between your laptop and amplifier. The usual recommendation is a Bluesound Node2i at around $500 or... | |
| A change in efficiency to the final sound "...I forgot , in the post that you responded to , to add that the volume levels would be adjusted to be the same for both speaker tests .Does that change your thinking ?"What I stated was how the efficiency values are interpreted. If you compens... | |
| When is the Apple Camera Adapter necessary? The only reasonable explanation I can think of is since they use the same USB port for charging, their "design" only supports USB3.0 protocol and the standard charging cable does not support USB3.0. I am not familiar with all the technical differe... |