mitch2
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| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? @bipod72 I hear you on the bike stuff. I suppose skiing and golfing are two other hobbies where new "innovations" are promoted almost annually. Once folks were riding carbon, road bikes seemed mostly consistent for a while but the past few year... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? Cd players used to be built to last a lifetime and the ones that were built in the 70's are still sought after Uh, @kenjit - "The Sony CDP-101, released in 1982, was the world's first commercially released compact disc player." | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan @jayctoy Advice I received long ago that often serves me well is; Don't Assume Bad Intent From that perspective, you might consider whether anybody who walked in front of the speakers could have received the same look. Maybe he was trying to ... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan PS Audio M1200 mono block is a Class D amplifier with a tubed input stage. | |
| Why do I need a switch? @jjss49 - Good point about having a LPS after the fiber conversion. I believe the OP’s intended set-up involves only a short fiber cable so both power supplies will be located near his system. If LPSs are not going to be used for both converters, ... | |
| Why do I need a switch? All this fiber talk made me want to hear that set-up again, so I just reconnected my 15M fiber cable from just out of my router to just before my double Bonn switches, where my gear is. It sounds pretty good. I doubt I could pick it out of an A/... | |
| Why do I need a switch? @curiousjim Put the converters after your last Ethernet connection. I thought you were planning to run CAT6 to your system. The other thing uses your home electrical wiring to extend your Wi-Fi. I know nothing about that but suspect there could ... | |
| Why do I need a switch? @curiousjim A few years ago, Steve Plaskin (with AudioStream at the time) posted about using fiber converters and 1M of fiber as an isolation technique to reduce noise. Based on that review, I purchased 1M of cable and two converters, and then ... | |
| Why do I need a switch? To your question, you don't need a switch, and you don't need fiber. The signal is the signal, so that doesn't change. The starting point is to connect your Ethernet cable to your streamer and listen to music. From there, if you wish, you can ex... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Revivalists - Made In Muscle Shoals | |
| Audiogon Retail Price listings are not accurate Reading this OP, it seems the topic addresses for-sale ads posted by Audiogon users and not the retail pricing shown in Audiogon's own Bluebook service. FWIW, I occasionally find misleading retail pricing on other sites too, such as USAM. I agre... | |
| Power cords known to produce good bass @raysmtb1 Hey Ray - no reason to feel bad, even a broken clock is right twice a day! | |
| Solid copper or stranded copper for speaker cables? What is your choice and why? @elliottbnewcombjr My speakers are also low’ish efficiency that I drive with big power amps so my HT speaker cables are bi-wired Pro9’s with two full runs/side or 6awg to each speaker. How did your friend’s cables sound? I suspect pretty good.... | |
| Solid copper or stranded copper for speaker cables? What is your choice and why? @elliottbnewcombjr Back in the CAT5 days, the DIY SCs involved a lot of braiding, stripping, and bleeding fingers. As you pointed out one method could be to simply use them as-is, but it seems another opportunity might be to twist four individu... | |
| Passion, or ..... Precision? Save the heavy rock music for when you are in your car, it may sound better to you (without the level of definition at the frequency extremes that your home system provides). |