mike_in_nc
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| They know we will pay anything they can think of @frankmc195 - I'm afraid all significant tax cuts have gone to those much wealthier than I am. | |
| Acoustic advice re: building a room (in wall or on wall) treatments I hope your room comes out well. I sure like the dimensions. Building an optimal audio room is not a simple undertaking. Regarding your question: Rockwool will help isolate the room from outside sounds and vice-versa. I recommend it. There are... | |
| ? about Smoking Power Amp A resistor is a simple passive part, not subject to damage from brief overloads. IME, if a resistor is burns up, it’s because something else shorted and sent way too much power through it. That's the safety concern. | |
| ? about Smoking Power Amp My suggestion is, have it checked out by a good technician. If that is too expensive for a $150 amp, get a new one. Power amps have large power supplies and relatively large fuses, and it's not unheard of for a failure to result in a fire. | |
| Recommend me a DAC under 3k Just to say, not every DAC has a streaming (Ethernet) input. Be sure you are comparing apples to apples. | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? The realized SPL for any wattage depends not just on speaker efficiency, but also on various acoustic factors, the most important being the distance between your ears (or the measurement) and the speaker. | |
| Ruminations On CD Players Advantage of separate transport and DAC? The same as the advantage of not having your turntable built into your preamp. | |
| Is usb reclocking necessary? I used a pretty good one (Mutec MC-3+USB) into a $6k DAC-Preamp on the Stereophile "A" list. There was a positive difference. Then, I got a newer DAC-preamp ($4k), and I found that the reclocker added harshness to the sound. My conclusion: this i... | |
| KEF LS50 Wireless II vs. Harbeth P3esr FWIW: I auditioned the original LS50 for my desktop system and settled on the P3ESR, which I've had for almost 10 years now. They are really good speakers! | |
| Hearing Aids Reduce Dementia Risk What?! | |
| How cam Morrow Audio keep offering 45%-65% discounts for trade-ups? Boutique audio cables are extremely high-profit items. How else could the manufacturers afford those endless back-cover ads in the glossy magazines? | |
| Is the DCS Rossini DAC a DNLA device? Nothing extra was used, AFAIK. It was addressable from a good DLNA control point. | |
| Riddle me this.... That won’t happen. It’s the same as flipping the polarity switch on your preamp or DAC, which typically changes the sound in ways that some people find inaudible most of the time and a few others other find highly important for musical realism. Mo... | |
| Is the DCS Rossini DAC a DNLA device? A friend had a Rossini, and once I got onto his network, I found the Rossini in my DLNA control point (BubbleUPnP on Android) and played music to it. Source was MinimServer/BubbleUPnP Server on my home NAS. It sounded great. So my experience is t... | |
| Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern) ??? Yes. Janszen Valentina P8 (a current model). Each has a woofer level switch, a level pot for the electrostatic panels, and a second level pot for the side-mounted tweeters that can provide more local ambiance if desired. |