mijostyn
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| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @phusis I never said to limit yourself to one approach. But what you hear repeatedly is that people get high efficiency loudspeakers to support low powered amps that are deemed to sound better. That is not my experience, but that is why Howard J... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @invalid The best way to determine the ability of the digital portion of a DAC is the signal to noise ratio. I would go with whatever DAC had the most neutral analog section be it discreet or an op amp. There are some pretty wild chips out there ... | |
| surface noise reduction There are certain types of styluses that are quieter if set up correctly, these include the Ortofon Replicant 100, The Soundsmith OCL, and the Gyger S. With only one exception these styluses are found only on cartridges over $2000, that is the Gol... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? The technology behind DAC is way more advanced than it was 10 years ago. You can get a DAC with a 120 dB signal to noise ratio no larger than a thumb drive. It is at the point were all dacs operating at the same rates do exactly the same thing, ac... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? Hi Donald, Very common problem. You have two choices, acoustic treatment of the room or a room control preamp like the Thrinnv Amethyst or DEQX Pre 4. Ideally you would do both. First you need absorption panels at the major first reflection point... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @rauliruegas I'm still here Raul, enjoying the banter. @lewm Not that I should question your cleverness, but the only way I have ever been comfortable with an audio assessment is to do rapid AB comparisons. I have a new method which you will... | |
| Turntable dust cover cleaning Hi Hazeloop, I am another long term SOTA owner. It looks to me that you have swirl marks on the dust cover. You can bring it back with a little elbow grease or a random orbital polisher if you have one. Go to Autogeeks and get the smallest bottle... | |
| Has This Kind of Tonearm Been Made? That is old tech and a very noisy, complicated way of doing things. The tech now exists to do this correctly the problem is, at what cost. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @wizzzard , I got the 200 proof ETOH online and found a source for the Lorastat 264A in Chelmsford MA. They are sending me two 8 oz sample bottles otherwise I would have to buy a drum for $3000.00. Their minimum effective concentration is 5% and ... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @daveyf It seems we are always destined to do that. @phusis No, you correct it as much as you can especially if the irregularity is only in one channel. It is not so important that the amplitude curve is perfectly flat, it is important that t... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @daveyf , I record rare, out of print records to my hard drive all the time. The people who bring these records over are other audiophiles. Not a single person can reliably identify the recording vs the real record. I can go back and forth betwee... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @phusis There is no such thing as a "lossless" digital volume control. Some units may revert to an analog volume control. But, even the best digital volume controls lose bits as the volume goes down. It is just that the really fast processors do ... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @daveyf , @phusis I have been using digital signal processing for 25 years. For the last two years I have been running my phono stage into an ADC, digitizing the signal into 192/24. RIAA correction is applied digitally without any distortion or ... | |
| Boulder 1108 Phono Preamplifier vs 1008 It sounds like you have already made your decision. Very few of us are going to consider Boulder equipment as it represents rather poor value given it's high price. It is excellent equipment, but I do not feel like buying a megabuck, CNCed chassis. | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @donavabdear Any piece of equipment with a well designed power supply only requires a power cable that can handle the current load. Increasing the gauge beyond that makes no difference. Dressing up the cable in a sock and adding good looking ter... |