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| Amp — Leave on or turn off I turn nearly all of my electronics off after listening. The only thing left on is the internet-modem/router. After powering up for listening, consistently the music sounds better after at least 1-hour of warmup. I'm not certain which components... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? About 6 years ago, I purchased a pair of lower priced floor-stander speakers (~$2K/pair) without an audition but based on a glowing review by a reviewer and his audiophile friends. He supposedly kept the review pair and said his friends were goin... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I have heard the difference between new and broken-in cabling nearly all my audiophile life. Even when I had my first real audiophile system I was able to tell the difference between the new and broken-in cabling. I recently purchased Iconoclast... | |
| Transport Recommendations +1 for the Jay's Audio CDT2-MK III... It's above your price point new however used it's probably in your price range. Built like a tank and terrific sonics. I have one and love it ! | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming I have a Netgear C7000v2 used with Spectrum as the internet carrier. I've had no issues with it and it covers my modest 1000 sq-ft cottage with WiFi quite well. What I did notice though is that until I added an Uptone-Audio EtherREGEN device whi... | |
| Is more amp power always better...? I have a pair of very efficient speakers at 12 ohms impedance playing in a modest listening space and the best sounding amps are those of low wattage class-A. I've heard a number of class-A and class-A/B on my speakers, even those of class-A/B wi... | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? I have never owned any of the stratospherically priced cables, however in my search over the last several years, I found that Audio-Envy cables were the best sounding in my system from a $$$-to-performance perspective. Recently, I had the opportun... | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. I was an acquaintance of Ken Fritz through my stint with the Richmond Audiophile Society and found him to be an intelligent, basically happy, persistent and dedicated in his pursuits, gentleman. There are a number of others in the Richmond Audiop... | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz About 4 years ago when trying to decide which music service to go with, I did a comparison of a few songs I am very familiar with using, and this is key, the exact same album on both QoBuz and Tidal. Both in CD-quality, not Hi-Res. After closely... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ On my digital journey, I have found that sometimes just tweaks can make a notable difference in sound quality. Better digital cabling for the Ethernet as well as USB or S/PDIF makes a difference. Minimizing noise is also really important. Last ... | |
| *DAC Hmmm... Sorting through all the great comments and recommendations made for DAC’s/cables, etc., perhaps your R26 DAC choice may not need to be replaced... Yet... Tweaks such as analog/digital cabling, making sure your Ethernet signals are clean fr... | |
| Do you adjust your subwoofer @highend64 I have similar controls for my subwoofer and I've found that my single sub in my small listening space it seems good. I'm not sure at this point I need a second sub. Thanks ! | |
| Do you adjust your subwoofer @mijostyn Where I have a small listening space, I have found that the small sub I have right now centered in front of my amp-stand sounds pretty seam-less with my stereo speakers. I do want to send the full-range speakers just the upper-bass an... | |
| Do you adjust your subwoofer @mijostyn Also, this makes me think that having stereo subs might be better warranted if I do the aforementioned changes... | |
| Do you adjust your subwoofer @mijostyn Yes Doppler Effect... Very familiar with it. While I really try to eliminate as much signal processing as possible, correcting response between drivers digitally, then via D to A conversion sending the signal via a proper crossover t... |