mitch2
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| everything sounded great until the upgrade I loved the sound of my modest system, until I upgraded my amp. It seems you answered your own question - trust your ears and first impressions. Take it from someone who has gone down the rabbit hole of trying to accommodate the one thin... | |
| Speakers on carpet over concrete Of course this depends a lot on the geometry and weight of the speaker. If a light touch can rock it, at all, it needs spikes. This is a good point. With any of the recommendations here the weight, structure, dimensions, floor coverings, and ... | |
| Speakers on carpet over concrete Decouple with individual springs, properly sized for the weight of your speakers or Herbies Giant Fat Gliders or Threaded Stud Gliders. Size individual springs by putting the actual load somewhere in the middle of the usable range, and account for... | |
| Galvanic isolation revisited. OTOH, at these prices using a fiber optic adapter ($60 for 2 + cable) to create an air gap is going to become very affordable. That is what I use, with 45 feet of fiber from my router to the network switch at my system and it seems to work and... | |
| Galvanic isolation revisited. Which EMO - like this, or this, also available here? | |
| My First DIY Power Cable @mbolek Take a look at the link I posted earlier. The math doesn’t work on the cable gauge and, if each wire is the same gauge then the ground with only 4 wires is smaller than the hot and neutral which each have 6 wires. If the posted wire size... | |
| My First DIY Power Cable @williewonka This link sorts it out with a bit more information. Viborg uses the 6 black and 6 red wires as positive/neutral wires, and the 4 yellow wires as ground. I would be interested to hear it but there are a couple design choices that I... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s And a set of springs cost about 10 percent as much as a set of pods, for those who don’t want to spend $1K on 8 pods. | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle I have some Porter Ports here, as well as some Acme Audio Labs Ag Silver Cryo receptacles and one Furutech GTX-D G receptacle. I suspect the differences are subtle and I don't really have a clear preference. As to Rhodium vs. Gold vs. Silver pla... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s If you like your Gaia footers, and plan to keep them, you might try them directly on the carpet and get the same level of performance, without the granite slab. I can’t tell from the pictures how integrated the spikes are to the outriggers of you... | |
| Question about using scrimping cable ends when making AC power cord I am not clear what you are referring to by "scrimping cable ends." Can you provide an image? I mostly use bare wire tightly clamped directly to the (mostly Furutech) ac plug or IEC. I have done this with up to 7awg wire. I have also tried usi... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle @retiredfarmer I know, I know, should’a put the doo-dads first. I will catch on eventually. | |
| Network Switches @glory I hope that is a typo since the K50 retails for $15K. I assume you like it. | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle @boxcarman and @retiredfarmer Sorry - sarcasm was intended. I use higher end receptacles just because. Can I hear a difference, probably not. Some of this stuff I just use in case I might be missing out on something, but I certainly do not sit ... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle @boxcarman Can anyone actually tell me they heard an improvement with audio receptacles? Of course, everybody hears it, at least equal to a component change, what's your point? |