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| Hate fireplace in home theater room My late aunt in London claimed that every British home had to have fireplace (many of them had just a bulb imitating fire). In US, I do have fireplace, but almost never use it. It is a toy, wasting energy. I went to fireplace store and asked about... | |
| ... Should I be concerned? Lowering gain of power amp is a good thing. Overall gain from the source to speakers will be the same, but spread of the gain will change. More gain will be allocated to pre (quieter environment) than to power amp (noisier environment), not to m... | |
| Tweeter life mozartfan, AFAIK ferrofluid in tweeters is used for damping and cooling. It has nothing to do with type of the magnet. Neodymium magnet tweeter might be designed with or without ferrofluid.The fact that magnets "lose some power over time" speaks... | |
| Tweeter life Why to replace tweeters and not the woofers? Dry ferrofluid can be replaced. Large midrange drivers in my speakers also have ferrofluid, plus unique design - not replaceable. Replacing tweeter is not an easy task, unless you reinstall exactly the ... | |
| Question on audiophile Ethernet cables and switches welcher, time jitter of D/A conversion basically adds noise in frequency domain. Ethernet data cannot directly introduce jitter, since data delivered is asynchronous to D/A conversion clock and is placed in the buffer. Ethernet cable, as any ot... | |
| Server/Streamer or Streamer/DAC? fiza, I use my system both for music and TV. Most of the time I play music over WiFi from server (MacMini) to wireless receiver (Airport Express) and then to DAC (Benchmark DAC3). DAC is also connected to TV and Blue Ray player (to play TV, DVDs... | |
| To warm up or not to warm up, and...? The only components that suffer from the heat are electrolytic caps (they dry-out). As for the performance - hot electrolytic caps have higher ESR, hot bipolar transistors are faster while hot FET transistors are slower. It is hard to make any sen... | |
| Anyone else have issues with their CD player/transport not playing slightly damaged CD's? bikerbw, I have two cleaning CDs: one with tiny rubber brushes and another with holes that create air turbulence. The first one works better, but the second is gentler, being contactless. Few people reported success with tiny amount of mineral (... | |
| audiophile USB/ Thunderbolt adapter options? It shouldn't (it's only data). | |
| Anyone else have issues with their CD player/transport not playing slightly damaged CD's? If your CDP is not new then perhaps it needs lens cleaning (lens cleaning CD). Inner diameter scuffs are worse being closer. If nothing works, then you can rip CD and record CD-R. | |
| Game Changing Tweak AddPowr’s explanation doesn’t make any sense to me and yes, it sounds like snake oil. Power factor correction in my Furman Elite 20PFI conditioner consists of huge inductor in series followed by large capacitor. It is designed to store energy for ... | |
| Question About Linear Power Supplies and Streamers Hard to tell. Most of the time linear power supply is better, but well designed SMPS can be much quieter - just look at some companies like Rowland or Benchmark that would not use linear supplies because they are too noisy. | |
| What are the signs of caps going in an Amp? I had once an amp with old caps and after replacement bass got more punchy/dynamic. I don't see how power supply caps can make "muffled sound", but perhaps other (than power supply) electrolytic caps are failing (or something else). In ideal cas... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming Ethernet does not operate in real time. It transmits data in packets, but it is not music since timing is not attached to it. The only way Ethernet (or USB) can change the sound is by injecting electrical noise (by physical connection). | |
| Bi-wire speakers and bi-wire cables? Yes, you can do it, but if you have decent jumpers like:https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Direct-Silver-Plated-BiWire-Jumpers/dp/B0057FK8RS/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=audioquest+jumper&qid=1597306205&sr=8-3(they also come in gold pla... |