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| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? Less than 2%. I’ve made my own speaker cables out of 10 gauge OFC wire with rhodium plated banana plugs that have securing screws. I’ve tried some expensive cables and could not hear any improvement. Maybe my old ears, maybe not. My interconnects ... | |
| 55” or 65” TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey I started with a 55” with my seating position 12’ from the screen, after a while, it began to look very small! Switched to a 65” Sony OLED, it was much better, but it, too, began to look small! Was contemplating an 87” but, bit the bullet when a... | |
| Streamer recommendations I recently got an Eversolo A8 streamer/DAC and really like it. Easy set up, supports Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify and others. Also can stream from USB devices or, an internal SSD up to 4tb (not included, user installed). Sounds great to me (I had tried t... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade I’ve been using a McIntosh MVP-871 CD/SACD/DVD player that’s about 14 years old and has a built in DAC. Fortunately, it has digital outputs for sound so I connected it via a glass optical cable to my new MX-123 which has an modern internal DAC. W... | |
| Jays Audio yt Channel takes on AB testing of cables. Although I’ve listened a lot, I’ve never been able to hear much, if any, difference between speaker cables. I think the main area of importance is to have good connectors and sufficiently stout enough wire for the rated system/run length. I’ve bee... |