mlsstl
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| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? @emergingsoul -- you need to pay attention to what weighting scale your meter uses. A Z scale is flat and not common on the consumer meters or phone apps. Meanwhile, while the A scale most resembles the human ear's hearing at moderate levels. Th... | |
| Can "Dark"Sounding Speakers Be "Brightened"UP??? Starting at $149 you can buy a Schiit Loki Mini+ four band equalizer which will allow you to experiment with different settings to your heart's content. For $300, their Lokius expands this to a six band EQ. (They also have a still fancier unit for... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? @macg19 "However there is no way to actually measure the frequency of the tinnitus tone that I am aware of." Actually, I found it pretty simple. i sat down with a set of headphones, with the amp hooked to a signal generator. I simply adjusted th... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? Here's the link to the OHSA page concerning occupational noise exposure: https://www.osha.gov/noise | |
| Moving up???? Just a thought, but have you considered a road trip? Here and there over the decades I've been in this hobby I've taken a trip to hear speakers that I've been considering. It's paid off both ways -- finding a prize and avoiding a mistake. The o... | |
| Short? "failing cap" refers to a power supply capacitor in your Mac power amp. Some appliances, particularly those that draw a lot of power and have motors, will send a noise pulse into your house's AC circuit of your house when they cycle on or off. ... | |
| Ohm for Sale When I went to buy my Ohm 1000s four or five years ago, I asked them about their business continuity plans since I knew John was getting up in years. I was told that Evan was the next generation of management. I last heard from Evan this past Febr... | |
| What amp for LS3/5A nearfield only For near-field low volume listening, consider a Schiit Vali 2++ (tube) or Magni+ (solid state) with their Rekkr power amp and they stack nicely with a small footprint. $260 to $300, depending on the combo. You can also add one of their DACS (Modi+... | |
| Things To make Schiit freya + a even better preamplifier Perhaps not bad thoughts (though I don't know if anyone at Schiit reads this forum) but keep in mind that designing gear for mass manufacturing is not a simple process. You might enjoy reading Jason Stoddard's book "Schiit Happened: The Story of ... | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed This is an odd situation -- the manufacturer and an independent repair shop both swear the amp is running fine with no noise, yet it is noisy in your system, even with no input. Just a thought, but do you have any friends with decent speakers (or... | |
| New cd player I had a NAD CD player some years ago that was quite nice. I just checked and you can get a NAD C 568 for $900 from Crutchfield. This is their mid-tier player. | |
| Woofers pumping Second the motion on switching speaker cables and seeing if the pumping motion moves over to the other speaker. If that happens, then the source is the problem. I have a few recordings that do have subsonics. One in particular is a CPE Bach reco... | |
| Schiit URD CD Transport SOON? @arcangles "Just saying or what am I missing..." My understanding is that Mike Moffat at Schiit, their co-owner and designer of their digital gear, strongly prefers their Unison USB over coax and optical connections. Many DACs, including Schiit'... | |
| Schiit URD CD Transport SOON? As of this evening, their web site says it ships in five to seven days. | |
| End of life for Vandersteen IICe? I'd second @panzrwagn's comment. Maybe someone else can use the cabinets or salvage other parts, or use them as the basis for a project with different drivers. If something isn't worth selling, I always try to give it away to an interested party b... |