millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Amp or DAC? Let’s say I compare the same company’s 75w into 8 amp and their 150w into 8 amp. Will I notice a difference in sound quality? Yes. If so, why? Not because of power.If there is a difference between the 75w and 150w per channel amp can I narrow the... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? Favorite? Probably would have to be the Linaeum Model 10 speakers bought at Corner Audio in Portland back in the 90's. Linaeum was a small company making speakers with an interesting driver that was basically a normal dynamic driver that instead ... | |
| My thoughts on TT isolation methods. Since you're into DIY and value you might want to try my approach. You've already come pretty close and have a lot of what you need. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 You're right about granite and the tradeoffs with materials between de... | |
| Negotiate good price If you really are serious and really do know what you want, and their market prices, and really are prepared to buy, then you could hardly have picked a worse way to handle it. Because the reason I say really over and over again is there's what pe... | |
| Another Bass discussion... There’s a lot of reasons people rely on two speakers, the biggest being its relatively easy to understand and do. Plop two speakers down anywhere, make sure they are equidistant and pointed symmetrically and in your general direction, and they wil... | |
| Granite Bases for Vandersteen speakers You're right about granite, it does all you say. Yours are custom cut versions of the machinists top plate that have been under my turntable and amp for many years. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367Something I always suspected, but it too... | |
| Phonostage recommendations under $3K Its okay. I'd be butthurt too if I'd had to resort to calling anyone "dude". | |
| Looking for a sub for revel f208 For $2500 you can have a DBA, four subs that will be far better than any 1 or 2 (or 3) you can buy with the same budget. Mine is 2 Dayton SA1000 amps and four 10" subs. It was right about $3k. But you could use just one amp, and skip the real Rose... | |
| What heat sink compound to use in a Musical Fidelity A1? Definitely use the type of heat sink compound called heat sink compound. Live large. Go the Full Monty. Buy two tubes. | |
| High end stereo preamp vs mc preamp? No such thing as high-end HT preamp. Expensive, yes. But high-end is defined not by price but by the quest for excellent sound quality. Sorry but I had to take a different tack because jond and soix already covered the obvious. You want good qua... | |
| Phonostage, preamp or amp? Which component (Phonostage, preamp or amp) in general, would: Doesn’t work that way. There’s no correlation between these components and the "most noticeable tube effect/experience". In fact, the better the tube component the less it makes you e... | |
| Adding a sub woofer? Speaker level or line level is all the same and has nothing to do with the speakers used. Here's a very good technical article that explains exactly what the difference is: two resistors. https://www.epanorama.net/circuits/speaker_to_line.html/ Th... | |
| When turning off car Because when you turn the key off the connection doesn't break clean it creates a transient pop and even though at that point the amps are "off" they still have more than enough in the power supply to make a very loud pop. I know. Its freaking a... | |
| Phonostage recommendations under $3K First, that's not what I said. What I said was, " Nobody wants to believe you can get a $10k phono stage for $3500! " Which you just proved. It was in the context of saying the Herron offers such high value its hard to believe. Which again you co... | |
| Mixing & Matching Components OMG. NYT. Explains a lot. Nevermind. |