midareff1
Responses from midareff1
| Arrangement of components on rack I try and keep digital with digital and analogue with analogue and separate digital from analogue with copper sheets (Micheal's Craft Stores). It's drops in the bucket but if you put enough in eventually you have something. | |
| Digital - Different Sound from Different Sources.... I find I am going to Tidal more frequently than Qobuz now. Seems they have more by the artists I want to hear and they have a more natural sound. I find Qobuz gets to be a bit harder or harsher and less natural sounding on many recordings. | |
| Your tube preamp and ss amp thread Vintage gear: Audio Research LS2B MKII into a pair of Sumo Andromeda IIa MOSFET power amps into Acoustat electrostatic hybrids. 30 years of surviving shoot outs. Maybe they go in the coffin with me.. | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? As one who can hear differences in interconnects, speaker cables and digital connections, let alone tube rolling...... OK, power cords not so much anymore after the Niagara install, ..... I probably don't have any links other than power cords t... | |
| Cables best suited to electrostatic speakers For the tinnitus give up Equal sweetener and Coke products. They both have ingredients that blow mine up. I’ve had my Acoustat electrostatics a long, long time. Used the Cable Company lending library for about ten pairs until a buddy loaned me a p... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" I read many but not all responses and there is something that seems to be missing... that is the particular component to component compatibility of the amplifier and the rest of the gear it is associated with. To get the best result each compone... | |
| CD v Streamed I both stream and play CDs. CDs are played through a Sony XA 5400 ES which was a Stereophile A+ Component for four years and is excellent on Red Book. I stream through a Cambridge CXNv2 to a Benchmark DAC 3b. I can also play CVDs using the digital... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? In my experience the room's acoustics is perhaps the most important factor in soundstage imaging. Side wall reflections can muddy an image as can sound waves coming from the rear wall and front corners.. Before I chased different equipment I'd ta... | |
| Favorite cable brand. For my system the winner of the speaker cable sweepstakes of 9 contestants was Straightwire Maestro. Interconnects became Straightwire Maestro after 7 shoot outs until I tried Straightwire Virtuoso. SACD and DAC feed the pre-amp via Straightwire V... | |
| Got a Node 2i, what's next? @vinylzone .... that’s very easily accomplished. If you have reached the point where your audio resolution is detailed enough to reveal the difference between interconnects and you want to put some time and effort in you will probably find your ho... | |
| 10" self powered sub-woofers..... @doctors11 I guess this is the last post by me on this subject unless someone wants to PM me about some aspect of this I haven't either posted on or been clear about. Sub is now up on spikes, Audioquest 90 degree RCA adapters, .Blue Jeans Cable L... | |
| 10" self powered sub-woofers..... @doctors11 Thanks for the kind words. My area of interest is the same as yours. I want to follow a double bass riff up and down the scale to the bottom with definition and reproduce anything that a regular acoustic guitar and piano can do at ... | |
| 10" self powered sub-woofers..... @doctors11 An update for this Saturday...... April 24th... 90 degree Audioquest RCA adapters are here and the sub is now on Blue Jeans Cable LC-1, 3 meter length. Admittedly, not my first choice but an affordable one until I have an opportunity t... | |
| Got a Node 2i, what's next? Frankly, I get a laugh from the guys who buy low bucks for digital because it couldn't be as good, and then of course it isn't because they bought entry level stuff and hooked it up with whatever they had left over lying around, because they didn'... | |
| My conclusion: mid level $$ analog vs digital There are many that spend hours upon hours refining their analogue playback but don't think beyond the plug-in about digital. Is your router up to date and capable of easily streaming the data you need? Have you abandoned wi-fi to go Ethernet to... |