millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components I cut my nose on a CD 5 days ago...I was trying to read the control markings on the top of my Sharp SD-EX111 mini system (my good eye was less than an inch from the top) and I pushed "eject" not noticing that a CD had been loaded.The CD (top loa... | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components Component mods are one of the easiest, and certainly most cost-effective, things you can do in all of audio. In most cases its as simple as looking inside, writing down the values printed on the sides of the caps, buying some better ones and solde... | |
| I have three speakers avaiable to me?? Well this one for me is easy. Set aside bass for the time being. Ask yourself, other than bass, which ones give me that magic sinking into the music feeling? Those are the ones you get. Even if they are the ones with the worst bass. Even if they a... | |
| Neotech solid vs Dueland tinned vintage - spades? bananas? nothing? Depends why you're doing this. If its because you enjoy tinkering then try them all. If its for sound quality there are better out there for less money try a few and see. Synergistic has by far the widest selection range none of which are muddled ... | |
| There are actually 2 seperate hobbies here. The perfect system is 100% system and no music. With no music no one can ever prove its not perfect. | |
| ADVICE PLEASE Hook it up right now with lamp cord or whatever you got and start listening. Leave the receiver turned on 24/7 and pay attention, you should be able to hear improvement in smoothness and detail over the first week or so. You want to do this becaus... | |
| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. ketcham Does anyone here have thoughts on cable cookers to expedite the process of burn in? Glad you asked. Cables do improve with burn in. Everything does. And will improve equally well whether its music you're playing or hooked up to a cooker.... | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? I bet all $50k speakers rival $200k speakers. But for speakers above $500k...........well, nothing can touch them. ^^^^ This! ^^^^Insert gif of me "I'm not worthy"-ing to n80 | |
| Thunder? Or, thunderstruck? millercarbon - the sophistication of your remark baffles a simpleton such as myself! Yes. I can see that now.Okay so here's the deal. Its kind of a thing in component selection to take into consideration what sort of music the user tends toward... | |
| New System for Pool Table Room My first consideration on reading this is, what really are your looking to get from this? Realistically? Because the room is big, open to another noisy space, and listening is secondary at best. A conventional stereo setup aimed to sound good near... | |
| Questions on next steps with my power amp Yeah sorry its nothing to do with that amp in particular. The whole HT thing is a great big peeve of mine. I’m as big a cinephile as audiophile. Might love movies even more, if such a thing is possible. So when I remodeled and added a home theater... | |
| Questions on next steps with my power amp So what you did was take a line out from the Onkyo and run it into your amp. The line out probably says Tape Out and is intended for tape recording. As such it is line level, ie about 1-3 volts in level and fixed. So in other words you are using t... | |
| Laser measurement for speaker position The laser level is a practical, useful, and time-saving approach especially if you are also planning, intending, and expecting to have really good imaging, soundstaging, and palpability.Sorry, don't know why that happened. Something got into me th... | |
| Thunder? Or, thunderstruck? So basically, AC/DC? Or Two Cellos? | |
| Power Cable ~ $300 - Which to get? Nordost, Audioquest, Furutech, Shunyata, Zavfino? There is no such thing as a good DIY power cord. Kit or otherwise. Cryo or otherwise. There just isn’t. Period. Look, this does not need to be so hard. You get a Master Coupler. You try it out. You get a few others. You try them out. At some point... |