mitch2
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| Your last concert was to see who and when? Just finished 17 days on a bicycle with the last week being an organized ride with concerts every night. I intended to see 5 of them but long days and heat reduced that to 3, and one of those was cancelled. Spin Doctors sounded ok and it was fun... | |
| Heavy duty amp stand, Sonic benefits? @pindac I assume Panzerholz is one of the d’woods you are talking about. There are some respected equipment designers using that material in chassis and equipment bases. Here is some reading from one manufacturer. | |
| Heavy duty amp stand, Sonic benefits? @markmuse If you run out of stoppers, look at what these guys offer - platinum silicone in different shapes and sizes with adhesive backing. The little sizes make nice replacement feet for peripheral items (i.e., power supplies, switches, and o... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Happy 4th of July everyone! Celebrate our freedom, this great country, and all who served! Fleetwood Mac - Before the Beginning | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control Music First Audio was an early adopter of the transformer volume control, or TVC. I believe they use S&B transformers. Transformers use two coils around a core and offer isolation while autotransformers, or autoformers, use only one coil and... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? @audiopoint Regarding your list of answers to my question: what physical/mechanical characteristics take an audio rack from the realm of being sub-par or basic to being good, high-quality, or reference? Nos. 1,2, and 3 are important and d... | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control Every passive attenuator company says the same thing, Goldpoint, the LDR folks (i.e., Lightspeed and Tortuga), manufacturers that put attenuators in their DACs like Metrum and Sonnet, and more. Some say it louder than others. Hattor/Khozmo offer... | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control @chopandchange if I am only using the ONE digital source - would I really need a pre-amp at all? That has been a question asked by many over the years. Having enough voltage is one piece of the puzzle but impedance compatibility to drive the... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? To the OP’s question, I find his subjective quality characterizations interesting: a good audio rack ultra high end audio equipment sub-par equipment racks a high end audio rack a reference rack high quality components These types of sub... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender @rbstehno I use switches attached to each mesh router so all the devices in each room think they are attached to a wired network instead of Wi-Fi. So, in rooms where you have a mesh satellite, and where you have multiple devices, you run the... | |
| Burn in vs perception @rshank64 Thanks for sharing your listening test. I am actually not surprised at the results. The only times I have suspected hearing a difference in power cables is when switching to a much larger gauge cable. Even then, I did not try a stru... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? Yes indeed, the Fleetwood Rack is hugely expensive. I am sure it meets my rack performance goals, but the reality is that folks buy it for the cool factor and the OMA/Fleetwood clientele consist of folks for whom money is not the main issue. My S... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? Thanks guys. Prioritizing spending on what makes the most sonic difference can be part of the fun. I have always tried building or configuring stuff myself like different types of stands, air bladder suspension, lots of cables, and the damped sp... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? Solidity, stability, mass, and damping - you don’t need to spend a lot. | |
| Why are speaker stands so expensive?! @lonemountain I am not a rep for anything. Regarding my comment about not having to spend thousands of dollars, @audiopoint had stated, The company I represent does not manufacture speaker stands for less than a few thousand dollars per pair... |