lowrider57
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| opinions Have your AR's been restored...foam surrounds and caps? You want to get the most out of them and make them easier to drive. The AR is not an efficient speaker.The NAD is an efficient amp and puts out more power than its rated 30 wpc and may be abl... | |
| Is digital contamination that big of a deal? As you've found out, a lower noise floor starts with your basic components.The digital noise you asked about is yet another area of the system one needs to address. | |
| Is digital contamination that big of a deal? Almarg has commented on this subject before, but since I'm no EE, I'll try to explain why the digital signal should be kept separate from the analogue components.As I understand it, some of the electrical noise generated by a digital component can... | |
| I am going to build a listening room If you can get measurements of the grade of your property, IOW, how high is the house off the ground. What is the history of runoff during heavy storms and and how close is the basement to the water table.My basement didn't never flooded until aft... | |
| Advice about what to do with not-needed tubes? You are not going to get any high offers selling them here or on ebay since they are in the white boxes and come from unknown sources. It would make a difference if you had a tube tester and could quote the test results. If you are able to return ... | |
| Did Redbook get it right? Hesson... More copies of Beethoven are sold. :-) | |
| Did Redbook get it right? I was only an entry level engineer back then, but I was also told that the mandate was to fit an entire symphony on one disk; Beethoven's Ninth being the longest running length. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc Schubert's Cello Quintet of course.Of the top of my head; Brahms Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 (Sextet for Strings) Beethoven's String Trios | |
| Help - new house - new setup? Agree, you are in dire need of room treatments. At this point you can't tell what your system really sounds like.+1 Rlwainwright, this is a major undertaking. | |
| Did Redbook get it right? I agree that Redbook as a format can deliver very high quality sonics. But it took years to develop the hardware that could read all the information on these disks so that Redbook could satisfy audiophiles.Case in point, ARC has devoted their digi... | |
| Why are records still warped? Bdp24New LPs are warped either because they were removed from the LP stamper before they had cooled sufficiently, or because they were not transported and stored properly after they left the pressing plant, or both.The record labels and the pressi... | |
| Why are records still warped? I've also been told that venders have to pay for the cost of a return in this new vinyl world. I'll bet a company with the "buying power" of Amazon doesn't eat these costs and returns them to their distributor. In the good old vinyl days, you woul... | |
| McIntosh MQ101 does it work as a tone control? That's an interesting device. But I believe that Matt is saying due to the design and sonic signature of a preamp, the component itself acts as the tone control for the system with nothing in it's path to introduce noise. Plus, tube rolling adds t... | |
| Recommendations to a small room setup Jrinkerptdnet, I just did the calculation and you are correct, this may be a 10'x 20' room. In that case, these speakers are on the small side and the OP may need to look for a full-range speaker or add a subwoofer.I think we need to hear more sp... | |
| Recommendations to a small room setup The Dynaudio and Dali speakers the OP is considering are very closely spec'd...50 Hz to 20K+, sensitivity on the Dali is 88 dB, 86 on the Dynaudio, crossover at 2kHz, 2.6kHz. I believe these would provide a satisfying full-range sound for the OP's... |