knownothing
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| When is your Hifi good enough? When Stereophile arrives and you blow by all the equipment reviews and go straight to the record reviews. Two months in a row. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great thread! Listening to "In a Silent Way" as I read through thread while thinking of any bases not yet covered RE "Jazz for aficionados". Have been on long quest for quality recordings that offer something different and gave remarkable sound qu... | |
| Hana moving coil stereo cartridge Thanks pkaram. I also found reviews of the Hana cartridges here:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/hana-moving-coil-stereo-cartridgehttp://hifipig.com/hana-s-range-moving-coil-cartridges/http://www.the-ear.net/review-hardware/hana-eh-and-sl-m... | |
| What's your biggest surprise in hifi? Agree with totem395, biggest surprise over the years is how important, and in some cases fundamentally limiting, your listening room can be. Good kit in a great room can often sound way better than a great kit in a compromised space.And how manuf... | |
| Best banana plugs 2016 Ok, bought these silver plated copper body banana connectors from Furez based on williwonka's advice and scan of the market. They arrived in two days, great service from Douglas Connections! Installed them and have to say right out of the packag... | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations dne, is the Wireworld cable glass or synthetic fiber? Just curious. | |
| Best banana plugs 2016 These look very promising. Thanks williwonka!kn | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations +3 with Kijanki and ghosthouse. I use this low cost glass fiber cable in preference to Audioquest Cinnamon cable with synthetic fibers which retails for ~$80 for 1.5m. AQ cable doesn't sound bad, but Glass cable sounds a bit faster with better at... | |
| Best cartridge to reduce hum under $400 USD Hello, Hum was significantly reduced by addition of Shunyata Venom Defender to AC line. Low frequency resonance still an issue on imperfect disks. Would like folks thoughts on these three low to medium compliance cartridges for the TD150mk2:Zu/DL-... | |
| Linear power supply for Arcam irdac Thanks George. Have you tried this power supply with irDAC, Dacmagic or similar? On another forum I have gotten positive plugs for MCRU and Sbooster, while Paul Hynes and Teddy Pardo are heavy hitters in power supplies.My feeling is all well desig... | |
| Billy Gibbons and the BFGs - Perfectamundo Thanks for the suggestion | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Reviving this thread, not sure I solved the file format issue, but will say no files played in my system from flash drive through either AVR or BDP sound very good, no matter how they are ripped or which format. Have switched to AIFF vs FLAC based... | |
| Suggested PC laptop models for computer audio Zd542, thanks for info on USB 3.0/2.0. | |
| Suggested PC laptop models for computer audio Thanks Kijanski, so you are saying that asynchronous USB defeats problems with data input and output using the same serial bus? This makes some sense because in my office system that uses an AQ Dragonfly, the external USB drive sounds at least as ... | |
| Suggested PC laptop models for computer audio Thanks Zd542. Is USB 3.0 input for data from drive also problematic if digital signal out to DAC is via USB 2.0? |