mezmo
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| Who has found happiness giving up on DACs? Gotta say, currently loving pecking this out on an iPad which simultaneously is controlling every scrap of music own, ripped lossless to a 2tb drive resting under a Mac mini. Convenient and lovely, yes, but kinda necessitates a decent DAC or you'r... | |
| Pre-Amp Connection Rowland Concerto (and presumably others) run two pairs of balanced outs. Assume that there have got to be plenty others that do as well -- though there's no quesiton that Y a splitter cable would be a whole lot more economical. | |
| Footers? If you're looking at isolation platforms, I really like what a Neuance shelf has done for me under a Meridian CDP. | |
| Footers? Heres my general understanding / working hypothesis, for what its worth.As far as I understand it, theres two basic approaches to tweaking boxes (for lack of a better word): mass loading and isolation. Now, I was never 100% sure which role some... | |
| Bryston or McIntosh which would you buy? Ran a pair of Thiel 2.3s off of a Bryston 4b-st for many years, with various preamps in front, both tubed and SS (VTL, Rogue, Plinius) -- and liked it plenty. Never compared with a McIntosh, though, so no use there. Still actually own all of it, b... | |
| Select Your Less Than Ideal System Yep, yep, and yep: C. For years I made my own cables anyway.... | |
| My ears of tin are over 50 That's pretty cool. Hadn't considered how much a function of volume it is, with more volume, I can hear the tones up to 17.4khz (which would make my ears younger than I). As four the loudness/frequency test, came out almost flat, with significant ... | |
| My ears of tin are over 50 If you really want to be depressed, give the new thing "all the kids are doing" these days a try: "mosquito ring tones" (shakes fist, you darn kids...!). So, anyway, apparently the trick is to put a high-frequency ring tone on your phone that adul... | |
| Sennheiser HD600 Well, in that case I am willing to go out an a limb and guess that upgrading to Cardas cables is almost certainly not what you are looking for. I use an older Headroom home headphone amp that I like, but must admit that I haven't compared it to an... | |
| Sennheiser HD600 Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but I found with my 600s that upgrading the headphone cord itself made a shocking difference. Look around the forums, and you'll see quite a bit of raving regarding the Cardas replacement cord for the 600s,... | |
| Need professional advise Yea, it's pretty easy to replace the foam surrounds on drivers, provide you find the bits that fit and are willing to do some glueing. If you start swapping out the drivers themselves with replacements, you're pretty much starting from scratch and... | |
| CDP or CDP/ DAC - different question Guess I've seen some chatter / reviews regarding transports, but have to agree -- there seems to be exponentially less of it than regarding just about every other dohicky one might plug in (or not plug in) in connection with a stereo system. Proba... | |
| CDP or CDP/ DAC - different question In the interest of not answering your quesiton in what may be a slightly productive manner -- I gave up on the spinning disk part entirely. My new transport is a Mac Mini. Put together your lossless library of whatever you choose, pick the DAC to ... | |
| Best way to hook up my blue ray player. With the caveat that I'm not familiar with your gear (other than the TV), that's exactly how I'd do it. Simply put, this way involves as few components in the chain between the source and what the next component does best: TV gets the straight vid... | |
| Any audiophiles brewing beer? Got a couple of friends who have been doing all grain in NYC apartments for a year or so -- which strikes me as an unnecessarily high degree of difficulty -- and I've just started into it myself. Have a batch of dark, belgian-style strong ale abou... |