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| Is anyone thinking about building Walsh drivers? Fraz, the one significant enhancement with my OHMs recently was placing the 100s in my family room on Aurelax Subdude platforms to minimize interaction with the suspended plywood wood floors under the carpet there. That totally transformed the sou... | |
| Is anyone thinking about building Walsh drivers? FWIW their was a DIY room at the last audio show I went to (no Walsh speakers unfortunately) and I came away thinking how silly the DIYers sound made many very expensive offerings there seem. I'm surprised but happy they were allowed there. The DI... | |
| Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there? wmp does fine for .wav. Used it for years before switching to FLAC and DBPamp for more flexibility with tagging, which adds a lot to the overall experience. I converted all my old .wav files to FLAC and my library is very clean now. The only probl... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... FWIW, regarding what can be expected from a SET architecure as opposed to other tube based designs, my understanding about SETs in general, based purely on what I read, which is consistent with what I have heard to-date, is that its their midrange... | |
| Why do some audiophiles beat up McIntosh? "what sound improvement benefit is there to be had by putting and output transformer on a solid state amp"To make it sound more tubey maybe? | |
| Why do some audiophiles beat up McIntosh? Some say it is a curse to be beautiful. | |
| Matching a preamp with a different brand Assuming an active pre-amp, mostly just making sure both share a common physical connection standard and following the 10:1 impedance rule from there. The fun all starts from there. No two combos will sound exactly alike, but at least you have don... | |
| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time I have a Sangean wr-1 able radio with one of the best table radio tuners I have heard ever and I recall some very good ones many years ago, many of which were pre-transistor era.Anyone ever tried a Sangean radio/tuner on a good system? They would ... | |
| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time I've only owned four or five hand picked ones in the last 30-40 years or so. | |
| Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there? Also maybe make sure itunes is not running if dbpoweramp is putting files in directories it normally uses. | |
| Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there? I'm not at home to check but if there is an error log check that to see if more information on what happens at the time a failure occurs.Also can't hurt to reboot the computer just to make sure everything is running clean. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... I'm hard pressed to see how it could be called a good match if truly not that efficient in the bass but may only need match to a certain extent depending on listening volume requirements and room size mainly. Its not working properly currently wou... | |
| How Do You Feel about The Cable Game? EBM, look out! Are you sure you want to play the game?Ha Ha Ha..... | |
| How Do You Feel about The Cable Game? "I am the game, you don't wanna play me.I am control, no way you can change me.I am heavy debt, no way you can pay me.I am the pain and I know you can't take me."That is a wire company talking. Its how they play the game. Ha Ha Ha.... (evil laugh). | |
| Digital Amplifier Questions Also with Bel Canto, newer ref1000m and ref500m include teh BC custom power board internally as well as custom input board with higher input impedance to work better with tube preamps. These make a difference and go for a premium accordingly. PRio... |