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| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? Check out Acoustic Sciences Corp .. https://www.acousticsciences.com/ Their stuff has been an integral part of my system since 1993. https://www.martindareff.com/Other/HDR-Treated-Images/i-ZmLg23s/A | |
| Does Age Matter? I am 73 and really hate it when some hot young chick who would have said heya guy thirty years ago opens with, Sir. Digital here. About 750 CDs in the library but most are from the digital stone ages 20 - 25 years ago, and some longer. For playbac... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs jaytor324 posts01-04-2021 11:26pmRCA connectors can't carry a balanced signal. You need to use cables with XLR connectors to support balanced. That's wrong. If you have a cable with a foil (conductor) shield you can convert and use the shield fo... | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? OP here again to finish off the thread. Streaming Tidal now via wifi as they had a $4 for 4 months offer I took. Ethernet for hard wire on the way in as the Cambridge sees about 30 local routers. My CD collection is mostly old, 20+ years and ev... | |
| Better sounding alternatives to Blue Node Vault 2i In the month plus since my original post some things have changed on my system. The Cambridge and Sony CD/SACD both feed a Benchmark DAC 3b now and the entire system is up on a Niagara 3000 Power Conditioner with a Monsoon cord for it and Low Z c... | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? OP here.. as a followup I am going to hard wire the Cambridge as my next project. I have some Ethernet coming from Amazon (probably Chinese) Cat 7 flat and some coming from Blue jeans which I believe is Belden and Cat 6a. Both with capabilities fa... | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? Thanks for that Joern4 My Cambridge sees about 20 wifi names or so. I’m waiting for a Technical Support person on the phone with our cable company to find out if I can use the Ethernet connection on the back of the TIVO to network from even though... | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? Thanks all for the help. I find the Cambridge machine a bit cranky on start up to connect to my internet address. Sometimes it takes a couple tries to lock which is kind of a PIA as the full system is now on a power conditioner so one on/off swi... | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? OP Here... are you guys using Tidal on the Cambridge via wi-fi or ethernet? Anyone tried both? Results? | |
| Any Cambridge users on Tidal? Differences in Tidal levels? I'm going to I just want some feedback from users with a Cambridge who have to interface Tidal with the Cambridge Connect phone app and some input on the different quality levels into real audio gear, not a phone or tablet speaker.... | |
| External DAC for Cambridge CXN (V2) and Sony XA 5400 ES OP here.... Benchmark DAC 3 b has been delivered. Connected and immediately determined the internal jumpers at -10 db was not enough and opened it up and moved the jumpers to -20 db... which makes the output a correct match for my Audio Resear... | |
| Music streamers Do to a dearth of decent radio stations in Miami... no Classical, Jazz no longer broadcasting on FM, no Blues..... 2 Classic Rock stations loaded with commercials.... I decided to try a streamer. Went with the Cambridge CXN (V2) which delivers... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? I originally drove a pair of Acoustat 1100's with a Sumo Andromeda II A power amp... 240 into 8, 400 into 4 and 750 into 2. They are a combination woofer module and a tall electrostatic element. The panels dip as far down as 2 ohms at 10K and o... | |
| Are all of these NOS tube inventories real? How have we not consumed them already? There may be lots of NOS or NIB tubes around but try finding a truly NEW late 1950's early 1960s Siemens and Halske Cca 6922 grey plates or a late 1950's pinched waist Valvo Cca 6922. Abot a decade ago a dealer told me NOS was anything that still... | |
| External DAC for Cambridge CXN (V2) and Sony XA 5400 ES I agree... RCA vs. RCA and XLR vs. XLR would be a better apples to apples but Expressivo (RCA) and Virtuoso (XLR) are not inexpensive cables and I just don't have spares to make the comparison true apples to apples. I think the difference in con... |