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| CD Player Recommendations… Why "save" the fidelity of a CD. Rip it once to a hard drive with error correction, then play it jitter free from then on. There is a lot of reflected laser light and idiosyncrasies in mechanical players, it never ends. Put your money toward a ... | |
| New cables - To judge now or after burn in period? In cable design, there should not be any break in unless your amp has a DC offset. The dielectric will not polarize with an AC signal because the opposing swings of voltage neutralizes it. Surprisingly, most amps have a little DC offset, and that... | |
| The best room upgrade: $2250 All walls 4x8 acoustic panels DIY. | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? For subsonic measure in Richter scale. Sub-sub system flat to 4 Hz. Therefore dba meter pegged and not useful. Car audio limited vs larger room volumes. | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? Sounds like you upgraded your system and can hear the difference. CD? Haven't played one in years. Look at what CD players are trying to do. Upsample, refilter, balanced DACs. Everything to get over the shortcomings of the media. If you rip yo... | |
| What is the #1 equipment want currently on your HiFi horizon??? Passive volume control. Maybe getting rid of the preamp will help. Maybe not. Best system ever heard. Maybe a Jung super-regulator. .Tough call. | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. paulcreed354 posts06-24-2021 6:37pmI have the RME adi-2 and MHDT Orchid and enjoy both but very different. I added the Teddy Pardue psu to the RME and added better caps and 6sn7 and 6922 tube adapters to th MHDT.The RME has nice big bass very... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? pauly642 posts07-02-2021 7:43pmThat capacitance albeit very very low, is the only characteristic that could possibly affect audio.This probably one of the most profoundly anti-scientific and outright absurd statements I have ever heard in a while.... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Your answer is to look for a lower Characteristic Impedance of the cable. The reason is beyond the scope of this answer but the way they conduct and reflect signals is completely different. The Kimber is woven to lower self inductance. It's CI ... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? Good for cars and woofers. 300 kHz and under switching speed very noticeable on a moderate resolution system in a poor listening room. I have 3 class Ds on my sub-subs (3 kW) also in all the cars. Maybe they will get better for a good system. | |
| Money Well spent You will never find it. Never. Unless you impedance match your equipment with your cables. The sound will otherwise never get across and everytime you change it you will only change your impedance so it sounds different, sometimes better, but n... | |
| What process did you use to integrate multiple subwoofers for 2 channel listening? All the speakers have their own power amps, so it is quad amped with an electronic crossover. that makes it easy. My subs go for like 70 to 30 Hz, using the Klipschorns. Then there are the sub-subs, each having 4x15" in a tuned quarter wave hug... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? The digital side is only 192-24. I digitize the analog side.All the equipment is analog. Class D is only used for the sub-subs. | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings Most systems owners, even those with extremely expensive esoteric systems, have never heard completely flawless sound reproduction. It is a fantastic jaw dropping experience, and a life changing event. I've heard a lot of systems but let's talk ... | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. Magnepans are not good enough to tell the difference, although you might get some pleasure out of it. I have a pair. Rethink efficiency of driving speakers because tubes are generally less efficient, unless you are directly driving electrostatics... |