kjweisner
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| Stands made a huge difference One easy and quick way to adjust the bass from any speaker is to pull them further away from the walls. It may not require much movement at all to get it where you want it, so try small adjustments. On the other hand, you might just want to spend ... | |
| any cheap DAC for my Airport Express? Bndtracey, if your amp/receivers accept direct digital input (and I assume that to be the case based on your comment), then you are correct--a DAC is not only not necessary, but would probably introduce some more ADC and DAC steps. Also, depending... | |
| what to do cordless phone amplifier problem Last year, we had a problem with our phones (both cordless and corded). We would often not have a dial tone, and on more than one occasion would pick up only to hear neighbors conversations (even on wired phones). After several calls to our phone ... | |
| magnepan 1.6 needs help in the bass I have been happy for years with a single Vandersteen 2Wq with my 1.6s. This is a terrific combination and the vandy has the speed to keep up with the Maggies, as well as tight, tuneful and remarkably unintrusive bass. The x-over on this sub is su... | |
| Is It Me or The Speakers ? ? Speakers must be a perfectly matched pair, so no, this is not right. That said, room dependency could have an effect on the sound of one speaker vs. another at the same position, but it shouldn't be so drastic. You can check this by listening to t... | |
| Tubes in Hi-End Preamps I think there's been a lot of work done in the last few years by both tube and solid state builders to eliminate or at least ameliorate those pejorative characteristics of either discipline. Tube-based builders have succeeded in becoming less tube... | |
| any cheap DAC for my Airport Express? You should also be on the lookout for a used Assemblage DAC 2. . .this was the piece of gear that got me started in high end (and still resides in one of my systems, being fed by a 5 disc carousel and yes, an Airport Express). | |
| Adjusting tt speed on the cheap:any tricks? To reinforce what Bdgregory has stated, you might try a flourescent light--they tend to "strobe" better than incandescent lamps (or at least they did when I used them for this very purpose several years ago). Try to knock down the ambient lighting... | |
| Lexicon vs Meridian I have a 565 with the Z3 upgrade (and a stack of other 500 series gear feeding Meridian digital and active analogue speakers. Kind of tricky to setup unless you're patient, but the results are worth it. . .absolutely nothing that is artificial or ... | |
| Preamp with HT pass & Phono to match Pass x-250 I have a BAT VK-3i with an excellent onboard phono stage, remote and HT pass through (Unity Gain) that is the center of my two-channel audio rig. This has been a rock solid reliable and extremely satisfying piece of gear and has lived with me sinc... | |
| What speakers can make a convert of Maggie lovers? I too am a Maggie lover--have left but keep returning, but. . . I did recently audition a pair or Verity Audio Parsifals and I think they may just be capable of most of what magneplanars do so well. That said, they're pricey but can be had on the ... | |
| Which amp matches best my JM Lab Mezzo Utopia ? The BAT solid state amps deliver lots of current, so that handles your load requirement, and are biased heavily into Class A. As such, they run hot, but I've owned BAT pre/power for the last seven years with no desire to make a change. Don't know ... | |
| Many questions about HT pass-through options A BAT VK3i (and I assume other BAT pre-amps) have a volume setting called Unity Gain, which is essentially a HT throughput. The volume control is effectively removed from the circuit. As a two channel audio only pre-amp, the BAT line is excellent ... | |
| how much difference does a player make Agreed with MDhoover. . .used a high quality DAC for years with a variety of players and always experienced an improvement over the players' analog outputs. Still use one for my sony cd changer, iPod, and Airport wireless. | |
| Wireless Wav. Files to Stereo I am using an Apple Airport, which has a toslink optical output. Basically, I stream wirelessly to iTunes and then the airport grabs the digital stream and outputs it on the toslink, which goes right into my Meridian front end. |