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| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Fortunately I started young, planting the Redwood tree that would grow to provide the Rosewood veneer for my DBA. While that was growing I was busy digging the ore I would refine down into voice coils and speaker cables. Fortunately tubes are not ... | |
| To Couple or Decouple Bookshelf Speakers to Stands? You get a lot of answers because there is no such thing as decoupling. There is only vibration control. This being the case every bookshelf/speaker combination vibrates differently and so there is no one universal answer. If decoupling was a thing... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? If you could only see the worlds I’ve seen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjJzMBGUwo | |
| Prima Lunacy? (SuperTubeClock) Prima Luna are made in China. That alone is reason enough to knock them out of contention. Your question about customer service might be about this tube but winds up drawing attention to the general problem of having something made in China. Never... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? What is the advantage of a balanced input or output for phono stages?Good question. When you find one let us know. | |
| A moment when you realized better sound was possible. I began to realize that virtually every piece of the chain is in a sense a component, which sent me on a mission to tweak every last piece of my system to get the best sound possible out of it. "Virtually". Good one. I began to realize that eve... | |
| Advice on buying turntable under $500 Depends on what you want, and what you mean by "showing its age". A table from the 70's can still be fine but the bearing will go dry if not cleaned and lubed in all that time. Same thing with the arm. Cartridge could even be shot. In a world wher... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? The OP is of course open to ridicule, but only for the "I propose we define" part. The larger point he is trying to make is perfectly valid. This comes up all the time here. Practically every day. Whole bunch of guys say something all authoritativ... | |
| Are current audio cable designs superior to 1980s designs? You're questioning whether cables have improved in 40 years? No. Cars, tires, toothpaste, lightbulbs, computers, phones, homes, (5000 items later) and speakers are better. Cables for some strange reason are just the same. Even socks are better. Un... | |
| ???Compromise??? Front end is turntable and phono stage- or CDP if you're not into the whole must sound like music thing. If you're talking about amps the heat output is trivial, a few hundred watts, no more than a few light bulbs. That said, I had a class A inte... | |
| Subwoofer Causing Amp to Stay On Cheater plug still leaves neutral- has to, or no power - and that is where the voltage differential is coming from. I was going to say try a Line Out Converter. https://www.epanorama.net/circuits/speaker_to_line.html But I'm not sure even that wo... | |
| Subwoofer Causing Amp to Stay On Before the subs, Audio Note Amp could be on or off and it was dead silence. Now its slight static either on or off. Right. Because before the subs the speakers were connected to and driven by the Audio Note only. But then you connected the spea... | |
| Subwoofer Causing Amp to Stay On I think I know what’s going on but you have to clear a few things up. One you keep saying "speakers turn completely off." Speakers are never on or off, unless they are powered. So either you have amps in your speakers or you’re saying "completely ... | |
| Seasoning your sound with powercords I have no idea what just happened. If its the speakers opening up or the dac finally warming up, or both but what I am hearing now is off the charts. That was the biggest change I have ever heard in any of my set-ups. Night and day differen... | |
| I finally get it! Right. I wish more would realize this. Not as much for their own sake. Anyone wants to spend more money on protractors than stuff that actually makes music, and more time obsessing and fussing over microns when the dang thing ain't within millimet... |