mlsstl
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| New house, wife reveals she hates my Maggies- looking for stand mount speaker suggestions I had a set of Maggie 1.6qr speakers some years ago and when we moved they no longer cosmetically fit into the room at the new house. I tried a couple of different options but ended up with a pair of Ohm 1000 speakers which have since followed me ... | |
| Qobuz Connect For me, the most interesting thing about Qobuz Connect is its ability to switch end-point players mid-stream. For example, I'm playing a track on my phone using my headphones while out for a walk. Then I go through the front door while halfway th... | |
| Sugden 21SE and Harbeth P3 ESR XD? I'm driving a pair of Spendor 4/5 speakers (their current incarnation of the classic LS 3/5a monitors) with a Schiit Gjallarhorn amp which is 10 watts a channel. The setup is in a small room, about 11' X 12', but open on one side to another room. ... | |
| just wanted to share my fix for making my speakers cat and grand kid proof! I have a pair of Ohms -- their driver assemblies are inside a "top hat" case that prevents children's fingers and cat's claws from touching things they shouldn't touch. | |
| SS amp or receiver that sounds like Tube Amp Regardless of subject, this is a great example of a classic internet forum discussion! | |
| Last Critical Tweak… how to quell occasional high harshness…? This was mentioned only two or three times so far, but there is a lot of variability in recordings. Some recordings are intentionally in-your-face. Some may have been mixed, EQ'd and processed with studio speakers that were a bit recessed compare... | |
| ordering from China.....which Chinese Tube Integrated at 3k? I had a LSA VT-70 (EL34 outputs) that I was very pleased with. They run about half the price you gave. They are Chinese made but you buy them from a US seller, Underwood Hifi. LSA also has a larger unit, the VT-150 with KT88s that is still well u... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Speaker performance and interaction with room acoustics have by far the biggest impact on sound quality. You might want to consider getting a measurement microphone and putting the REW program on a laptop. Then run a frequency sweep and review the... | |
| Gustard X30 disappointment Did you check the line-out connection on the right channel and also try a different cable from the DAC to preamp/amp? If that doesn't fix it, sounds like it may be a loose internal connection. Might be worth opening the case and checking to see i... | |
| Gustard X30 disappointment Curious about something -- after the first time it dropped the right channel, how did you get it back? Did it come back on its own? Did you get a replacement unit? Cycle on/off? Adjusted or used different cables? Something else? The circumstances... | |
| Yet another streamer options thread... I have the Ultra in my main system and really like it. It supports LMS streaming as you probably already know, and the Wiim app, as an alternative, is getting better and better with time. Album display is a shade small but acceptable to me. Since... | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade I'm in the erik_squires camp on this one. It is easy for an audio hobbyist to get an urge for change even when they are quite pleased with their current system. Face it, we like to tinker. One way to address that instead of trying to improve on ... | |
| Phono pre amp Schiit has 3 phono preamps available starting at $149. I've always found their stuff sounds great for the money. You might even find one used. | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain Another possibility is that you simply prefer the frequency response variations and distortion characteristics of your phono setup. I found a test review of the MoFi Ultragold MC cartridge and it is anything but flat with an over 4 dB variance be... | |
| New Product - Schiit Byggy DAC Details Mike Moffat is one of the owners of Schiit who happens to be their DAC expert. He developed the first ever standalone DAC back in the 1980s. He is not a fan of DSD. I don't know if he's maybe changed his mind on this point, but here are his comm... |