mrskeptic
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| Being alone with your music When I was 9 or 10, most nights I went to sleep with a transistor radio under my pillow listening to WLS back when they used to play music and have been listening to something ever since. I still listen alone the vast majority of the time but som... | |
| WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection Packets is packets. Basic stuff, but audiophiles swear otherwise. | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Yes. | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? Efficiency is simply how loud a speaker will play at any given wattage, but is measured at 1 watt. It has absolutely zero to do with how it sounds. Magnepans are not very efficient but sound glorious. | |
| Streamer Selection - Thoughts Requested Please! Raspberry Pi with a good hat will save you thousands of dollars and will objectively sound the same if you use the same DAC. | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Another vote for Schiit stuff. Apparently some of you have reading difficulties (or maybe English isn't your primary language) because he was clear about his budget. SSDD. | |
| Ruminations On CD Players The only real plus for separates is ease of upgrade but plenty of people believe that separates of any type (pre-amp/amp vs integrated) will sound better but without a way to verify it. Of course the huge negative is cost as well as more connectio... | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? How something looks comes into play in almost everything we humans do. People go to the car dealership and want to buy a particular vehicle because it looks good to them but they know little to nothing about it's fuel economy, reliability, or safe... | |
| Does it make sense to "ignore low ball offers"? I look at low ball offers as pretty disrespectful but I doubt those that do so really care. Personally I don't respond because that gives them some attention and I'm not going to even give an inkling of support to their ridiculousness. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights As for weights, price has zero to do with any perceived sound change. Weight is weight (until it gets too heavy) and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something you don't need or believes in things that don't exist. | |
| To Tone or Not to Tone, that is the question. @deadhead1000 He didn't say what amp he's using. Are you clairvoyant or how do you know what amp he needs to upgrade? | |
| How cam Morrow Audio keep offering 45%-65% discounts for trade-ups? Cables are a very high profit item. The markup is incredible so any "discount" applied still makes them, and every other manufacturer, a lot of money. | |
| Please recommend decoupling footers for DAC If you can find a peer reviewed, scientific explanation of why vibration, any vibration, changes how electricity flows through wires, not even mentioning 1s and 0s, you'd have a better idea what the best isolators would be for your situation. | |
| Do I really Need a Digital to Digital Converter? Manufacturers love to "develop" components that aren't needed and don't do anything but make them more money. Objectively prove me wrong. | |
| Simple question, probably stupid Tubes don't burn in but your hearing gets accustomed to the music and tricks your brain into believing there have been changes. Interestingly, literally every example that I've read of something "burning in" has resulted in better sound. How could... |