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| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? Plus one to all the suggestions to explore subs as a way to extend the life of your current speakers in a larger space. Also, plus one to @erik_squires suggestion to check your amplification. Your Studio HDs are power hungry. https://www.stereo... | |
| USB Cable I kinda wonder about people who post on a site called Audiogon where you can buy a system comprised of used audio equipment that costs as much as a small condominium, but who cannot tell empirically that one wire design sounds different than anoth... | |
| Speaker Jumper Cables Revisited @erik_squires got it. | |
| Speaker Jumper Cables Revisited @erik_squires are you referencing the newer Diamond 12 series for the cap upgrade? | |
| USB Cable @antigrunge2 I’m completely in the dark about what I don’t know, but I think maybe it’s a lot. kn | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 👍 | |
| USB Cable @tvrgeek Said "Between good cables, no I heard no difference. I am not positive I heard a difference with the bad cables." Thanks for answering the question. I have heard big differences and no differences between cables in different applicatio... | |
| Speaker Jumper Cables Revisited @soix that is really surprising! I never would have thought to do that with fully bi-wired speaker set-ups. I am cross connecting the speaker cables on the back of the Wharfedales - positive lead to the positive tweeter terminal - and the negati... | |
| USB Cable Thanks for the reply @tvrgeek. In addition to testing with a spectrum analyzer, have you done blind listening tests to different digital cables? | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 Follow up on the Bluesound Node/iFi iPurifier 2 (iFi iPower X)/Chord QuteHD DAC set up. I eventually purchased a used Chord Signature Super ARAY coax cable to connect the Node with my DAC. Super happy with that choice made after carefully comparin... | |
| USB Cable @tvrgeek interesting discussion of how the USB interface could become noisy and why. Seems from your discussion that you lay more blame for any differences in performance on deficiencies in equipment design rather than the cables. I am wondering... | |
| Speaker Jumper Cables Revisited Thread update. based on the success using the $11.00 jumpers, I took a deeper dive into off brand jumpers and found a pair of twisted, thick format supposedly silver plated OCC jumpers with supposedly rhodium plated copper spades. These were lik... | |
| USB Cable I have tried a number of modestly-priced USB cables - including Transparent - and the one I kept is the DH Labs Mirage. It is1.5m and I am currently using it in my modest computer-based system at my office for near field listening. For a 15’ run... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? “Down with flat”. | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? Trust your ears. |