millercarbon
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| Suggestions for getting a commission to custom build tube amps I grew up on Jules Verne! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, I read em all.Remind me again, which one featured neon green and day-glo ac... | |
| Light weight speaker cables Cable Elevators. | |
| System synergies: Chaotic or predictable? Well its a lot more predictable than chaotic, at least in the sense you combine a bunch of lean, analytical sounding components together if there was chaos then it would at least every once in a while sound pretty good. Instead of always sounding ... | |
| Suggestions for getting a commission to custom build tube amps Nice, but a little understated. Could you do one in neon? | |
| Directional cables - what does that really mean? If someone doubts that a wire is directional because they don't hear any difference, why don't they just say they don't hear any difference?Because then we would know. | |
| Your favourite music movie? On The Beach. Waltzing Matilda played over and over again.Probably should not be on the list.Unless maybe you are Aus, and you really, really like Waltzing Matilda. | |
| 3D Printed Sound Treatment A bookshelf with unevenly aligned different sized books is a quadratic diffuser panel. A bunch of blocks of wood of different sizes and heights is a quadratic diffuser panel. In other words you don't need no 3D printer. All that's good for is maki... | |
| Upgrading sub to get a live feel. No amount of room placement ever gonna make two speakers, or even two speakers with a sub, or even two speakers with two subs, sound anywhere near as good as two speakers with four subs. Never. Gonna. Happen.Go with four though, and surprisingly t... | |
| oscillation in power supply filter caps You are right to replace the caps. Hopefully the caps you ordered are not merely electrically the same but "designer" ie better sounding. Cheap caps do indeed sound cheap. Swapping out caps for higher quality is one of the surest, easiest mods you... | |
| Kiseki and Lyra Cartridge Dealers in Japan and Taiwan If what you're looking for is to save money then look on eBay. That's where I got my Koetsu, huge discount. Otherwise you can go find a dealer in-country, but being a dealer will probably find it hard getting the discount. The practical advantage ... | |
| Help me decide on my next cartridge ( clipdin says: I don’t know what I’m missing by moving up.I would appreciate any and all suggestions. Quite so. And nobody here helping with that either. Oh well. This will help.Whether turntable, cartridge, or arm, what you're missing and what y... | |
| Upgrading sub to get a live feel. Tim is right about the DBA/Swarm subwoofer solution. The one I built with 4 Morel 10" woofers and the Dayton amps for under $3k gives more powerful, deep, articulate and smooth bass than anything I ever heard anywhere even from vaunted state of th... | |
| Does my setup need a phono stage? You will probably find it impossible to buy a stand alone phono stage that doesn't sound a lot better than what you have now. That said, you mentioned budget, and you already know the value of tweaks, so you ought to know where this is going. You'... | |
| Audio output for a non-HDMI pre-amp Best results will be running HDMI to TV like you said, and then running RCA for the audio from each source to the amp. Do this for the ones you want the best stereo sound from. (Although its hard to imagine anyone with multichannel caring all that... | |
| What differences should I be hearing as my new system breaks in? @millercarbon That crossed my mind and then you said it. #funny The vast majority and by far the most obvious changes are in the beginning. By the time you been doing it a while, to ask what "to expect", well no wonder this thread disintegrated i... |