minorl
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| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? My experiences mimic'd many of the ones presented here. My philosophy is that I refuse to pay for bad service. Anywhere. I've nurtured relationships with certain dealers to the point where they (two) actually let me go to the extremely high end... | |
| Advice/Warnings for a newbie hook the system up first as-is and take some serious time to listen and enjoy. Then start listening for anything you feel may be missing or off, if that exist at all. I don't think it will be much.Then, and only then, start playing around with t... | |
| Any alternative to Radio Shack sound level meter? You are absolutely correct. But, if you don't know what the problems are especially peaks and holes in your system/room response, you are stabbing in the dark.but, you are right. fixing it is serious business. Room correction has got to be the ... | |
| Best debut album Nina Simone; Little Girl BlueRoberta Flack: First Takeenjoy | |
| In your experience, what is the best Pioneer Elite units of Audiophile quality? 1. DV-09; Extremely overbuilt and excellent as a transport. hard to beat even today. 2. DV-79AVI: All around excellent transport and excellent as a CD player. Very nice internal DACS.3. BDP-95 FD: very nice unit 4. BDP-09 FD: This is th... | |
| Cool it! I would ensure that the bias is correctly set first. That would be my very first thought before fans and all that.enjoy | |
| Any alternative to Radio Shack sound level meter? The easiest I've used is a free download app called audiotools. It provides a sound level meter and also real time analyzer adn fast fourier transform tools.You can see gaps in your system and room. I use the stereophile test cds and play pink n... | |
| Moving cross country certain items you actually take with you personally. If you are concerned, then either take them yourself in car or refrigerated truck or in a truck/van and only drive in cooler weather. Just logistics.You could also place them in storage until ... | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life There's a science or art to just about anything. Including multiple levels of performance. There is typically a low end, mid level and high end to almost anything.Somethings are an acquired taste like beer. Some are just a matter of education a... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? Does spending $750 total include the original price of the integrated amp?If so, I still think it is worth it to get it repaired. Where can you find a very nice integrated amp for $750? Especially one that you don't have to worry about? If you ... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? Great suggestion from Ralph (Atmasphere). I to don't believe it is the transistors. I think it is the speaker load, but may also be the capacitors.A good tech can diagnose and repair this no problem. Where are you located? George Meyer AV in L... | |
| Blown driver I agree with Erik_squires. Sometimes we assume that other's know how to handle themselves around our equipment and that leads to trouble.I had a home I shared with my significant other. She had a house keeper come by ever other week. I specific... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science To be clear, this is all science. Try designing an amplifier, DAC, filter, etc. without incorporating serious science. You can't. Some of you are talking like things just appear on shelves for your enjoyment without any science behind it.Make a... | |
| CD Transports I don't necessarily agree with some of the statements here. If you address clocking, jitter, etc. then a good dac is a good dac. Either it does what it's supposed to do (correctly convert a digital stream to analog) or it doesn't. The systems ... | |
| CD Transports When I say "Built like a tank" I'm speaking from an Engineering point of view. I am an Electrical/Electronics Engineer that has designed built amplifiers, filters, and electronic circuitry over my career. I typically mean designed and built very... |