mitch2
Responses from mitch2
| Can an audio rack be that important? Not unlike a good speaker stand - solidity, stability, mass, and damping. Give your equipment stable, solid, damped support and let your choice of footers and mass loading do the rest. I use a combination of very solid and heavy wood furniture,... | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control I agree that many have appreciated Placette products over the years so when I was comparing high end volume controls, I inquired to them back in January. FYI - unfortunately, below is the message I received back: Please make a note. Placette Au... | |
| Network Acoustics Muon ethernet filtering system - Improving streaming sound quality @lalitk Hello, I have not tried the Pro yet. I have the original muon system plus their USB cable and decided to sell some stuff before moving on. Since my system sounds as good as it ever has, I haven’t been too fired up to keep buying stuff.... | |
| Why are speaker stands so expensive?! @lonemountain "In a proper mastering room you will find a very high mass stand and weight tuned springs to completely decouple the speaker from the floor." A listener can do exactly that, without spending thousands of dollars. | |
| Should I steer clear of class D amps Stereophile’s review of the HiFi Rose GaN Class D integrated and ASR’s positive review of the DIY Nilai500DIY Amplifier make the new breed of Class D sound more interesting. The DIY Nilai500DIY is something that might be well suited to my garage/... | |
| Burn in vs perception In the 30+ years I have been trying equipment, speakers, and cables, and outside of allowing 24 hours for warm up of circuits and several days for mechanical run-in of brand new speaker drivers, I have never heard sonic changes related to "burn-in... | |
| Should I steer clear of class D amps @jbuhl - good catch, yes the quote is mistakenly out of context. Nevertheless, in my system and to my ears, the NC1200 amps did not compare favorably to the Class A and AB amps I was using, for the reasons stated. I don't know whether NC1200 is ... | |
| Should I steer clear of class D amps @ghdprentice +1, very good answer. A few years ago, I moved from some nice sounding class A amps to Bruno Putzeys' Class D NC1200 monoblocks that were all the rage at the time. Unfortunately, as mentioned by @ghdprentice, "everyone realized they... | |
| Why are speaker stands so expensive?! Not sure how one would highly engineer a speaker stand - solidity, stability, mass, and damping, +1 for Sound Anchors, they have alway# worked great for me | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? @magnuman I went from using spikes to damped springs to elastomers to support my heavy (170 lb) speakers/stands. I liked the sonic changes I heard after going from spikes to springs. The platinum silicone elastomers I am using now behave and s... | |
| Broken banana plug and stuck in amplifier That is a tough one. Every situation is different and depending on how/why the banana plug broke off, it may be slightly wedged in the socket of the binding post. It seems the easiest solution would be to unscrew the knob on the binding post, i... | |
| How do you high pass your main speakers? @erik_squires Your quote from Troels sounds as if he is discussing a 2-way speaker, where the midrange does double duty serving the bass too. Why would the midrange be “pumping deep bass” on a 3-way speaker? Not.all stand mounts are 2 or 2.5-w... | |
| How do you high pass your main speakers? @mapman In particular with small speakers, removing the two lowest octaves can greatly reduce the distortion, not just across the bass but well into the midrange, so the speakers sound more transparent with improved soundstage, and eliminating ... | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? @herman makes valid points about the reliability of selling price data. I look at the free information on hifishark and then most often list at a slightly lower price as suggested by @phd simply because I don't want to spend the time farting arou... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers What about this Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG) directly connected to the modem and then CAT8 from the USG to my system and a second CAT8 from the USG to my mesh system router feeding my house. Wouldn’t that separate the system from the res... |