mitch2
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| Dealer affiliations and attitudes, assumptions and lack of respectful engagement in audio. @devinplombier - Thank you, I appreciate your comment. I am not going anywhere and I will still make contributions, but I need to stay away from the sh_t shows and negativity. I have more valuable (to me) and positive things to invest my time on.... | |
| Dealer affiliations and attitudes, assumptions and lack of respectful engagement in audio. @calvinj - 25 years here for me. What was previously a welcome escape and a place to learn stuff has too often become a disappointing waste of time, sort of like watching a train wreck on Groundhog Day. Conflict is good when it leads to a positi... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? @rvpiano Why do they bother responding to this thread if it didn’t occur to them at some point how others’ systems sounded. Curiosity is different from competitiveness. In addition, I believe one can enjoy improving their system based on what... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Being competitive with an audio system would be even worse than keeping score at golf - not only would it suck the fun out of listening to music but there would be no universal metric to score the results. Just dumb. | |
| When using a power conditioner, why is it advised to run amps directly to the wall? I guess I am lucky to live in a location where power noise issues do not seem to be noticeable, at least in my system. I do understand how power issues may be more noticeable to folks who live in multi-family condominiums or apartments with share... | |
| Streamer recommendation @wjcasey3rd - Thanks for the follow-up. It is always nice to hear how things shake out. I am glad you came to a good solution. | |
| Six DAC Comparison @brbrock - It is my understanding that Mojo Audio does indeed make the one MSB fine-tune adjustment on the AD1862/65 chips they use, but needed the more sophisticated equipment to make the four MSB adjustments on BB PCM58 and PCM63 chips. | |
| What is your audio axiom? Recognize when to take the win. | |
| Network Switches The original GigaFOILv4-INLINE (here) was basically an optical isolator, similar to the LHY product. The same folks that brought us the GigaFOILv4, DJM Electronics, now offers the fancier looking, Streaming Audio Ethernet EMI Filter (here) that us... | |
| What does your DAC sound like @brbrock - you asked: "Although you said that the Helene is better can you tell me if the Mystique X SE sounds similar?" I have responded over on my Six DAC Comparison thread (here). | |
| Six DAC Comparison @brbrock – over on the “What does your DAC sound like” thread, you asked: "Although you said that the Helene is better can you tell me if the Mystique X SE sounds similar?" Sorry for the late response, but it has been a busy time for me betwe... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? Wouldn’t say “just ok to great” but have been happily reacquainting with Cardas cables: Clear Reflection from DAC to pre Golden Reference from pre to amps Golden Cross from amps to speakers | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? When Steve McCormack helped me remove the volume control from the signal path in my SMc Audio preamp, I ended up choosing Audio Note 2W Silver Non-Magnetic Tantalum Film resistors to install in place of the stepped attenuator. Sounds great, no re... | |
| Streamer recommendation Grimm MU1? | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Not sure about "better" but I chose Amtrans AMRG non-magnetic carbon film resistors in my Hattor passive that I use to adjust volume and provide a display and remote control in my system. I have been happy with the sound, and compared to the many... |