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| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT The consensus strongly suggests just as most parts of the chain, best performance is often achieved when both the streamer and DAC have high-quality clocks, ensuring minimal noise and jitter throughout the entire signal path, will lead to better... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT You rarely see people fighting about amps. ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE AMPS REALLY WORTH IT? | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT No one has really convincingly explained this. And even after decades of research and millions of dollars spent nobody can explain how turtles can use Earth's magnetic fields to return to the beach they were born, after swimming thousands of mi... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @dekay I don't care about true to the source/low lows/high highs You must have Bose? | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @alexberger I use output and interstage Hashimoto transformers plus James Audio and Hashimoto power transformers and Hashimoto chokes, How do those sound compared to Tamura F-5000 or 7000 series? | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers Best - Furutech GTX-D(G Gold) - The GTX-D(R Rhodium was too bright for me, but it is a detail machine...but took forever to break in) @vthokie83 I have the GTX-D Rhodium and did notice it took more than 400 hours. So it was the rhodium that c... | |
| A little DAC help I just checked your system and it says you have a BAT amp and Mcintosh pre New or used. Either. I am however under the assumption that I will get better for less used. I appreciate a nice neutral soft presentation. Capable of a large soundstage... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Beating the horse which has died so many times. And yet there are 39 posts already. Whoops, make it 40. I care about measurements only to the extent it helps with matching components. As someone mentioned the ohm rating on a speaker matched ... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? That is why I said that the most successful SET installations (and some of the most avid SET lovers I know) have some means to keep bass out of the SET. When you do that the mids and highs get a lot better! Its not subtle. I could easily do thi... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Sorry, long TLDR: try it Sounds like what I just went through. I also had an "itch" I had to scratch, I picked up some 98db speakers, which were designed/voiced with a 300b amp (also built by the speaker manufacturer). I am sure if I posted as y... | |
| Streamer output options Per one cable manufacturer regarding history of digital cables: Before USB, there was Coaxial (S/PDIF) digital. This suffers from the technical problem that the clock must be recovered from the data stream, a technique that produces more jitter ... | |
| Streamer output options I'll reword your question a bit: Are the new implementations of usb now "as good as" AES/ spdif? Yes- In the case of my streamer manufacturer. According to Antipodes there was no USB driver option available that was as good as AES. It was... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer The cables we both liked best were the two most expensive in the test Funny how that works, hey? @eddy1 elaborating on my streamer recommendation, also upgrading your cables from your source to your M-Scaler and the two coax cables to your TT... | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers In order to isolate the ground, however, would I break off the tab that wraps around one side of the unit to the ground lug? But why the priority for isolated grounds? Why not use Puritan groundmaster instead. Shunyata or nordost have their gr... | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers Hubbel 5362. These come in 15 and 20 amp versions and are better made than typical outlets from Home Depot. They are all copper and are heavier duty than a typical outlet. They are under $15 each on Amazon. They are not copper, they nickel plat... |