mswale
Responses from mswale
| What is your vinyl commitment? Project X2 $1000 (open box) Sumiko Amethyst cart $600 new needle after getting it caught on a MF towell $450 Alm Sub platter $200 upgraded power supply $75 cables $250 Stillpoint footers $250 | |
| Streamer Options Needed Don't waste any time or money getting the Mini to sound better. The cost is not worth the benefit, plus it's also getting old enough to need a replacement. 10 years is about the limit on a Mac, it will no longer get any updates. Hate to break it... | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? Weird how many people have mold issues. Never seen a moldy album. But have see a ton of dirty, scratched and nasty album covers. Think if mold is an issue you should have desiccant around your collection!!! Not sure if they use it anymore, but th... | |
| Audio Grade Ethernet Cable So much misinformation about networks, and how they work. There are almost no differences in Cat cables, the difference is the bandwith that they work on, the higher the Cat rating, usually the higher quality of cable. However, there are good cabl... | |
| Just got a new power amp Thought the conscience was to always use XLR, they have a much lower noise floor, carry less noise, have less signal loss, of course higher gain. Why would you not? Lowering the noise floor is always an improvement. | |
| Has anyone here set up a system with tiered subwoofers handling different bass spectrums? Not to beat a dead horse, but run the mains full, not crossover at all. Adjust the subs to fill in, agree, it should be around 80hz or less. Adding another sub, in just the lower spectrum would be difficult, hard to integrate. If you are just lo... | |
| Need to get off of bluetooth.... looking for a wifi streamer for my budget With $500, the "best" option is a Cambridge Audio MXN10, it should fit all your requirements. I took all my Apple Music, put it on an external disk, plugged that into my streamer. For sound quality, you need Tidal, or Qobuz, playing direct on ... | |
| Buying used from Canada No idea when we started to collect sales tax on used good, but we are now doing it. Things are changing all the time, no one really knows what's going on it's chaos. Ordered some record sleeves from Canada early in the year, it was a $60 order, ... | |
| Maximize Mini with Roon to match my system -- or new component? Ditch the Mini, not worth dumping a lot of money into it. Any streamer you purchase will require updates, and will have a EOL date. They are basically computers, will not last the test of time like other products. As soon as the "app" leaves the a... | |
| Looking for Some Music Server Advice If it's not all that important to you, it's not a primary source, just get a true RAID array NAS. Or if you can, put it all on a SSD drive, then hook up directly to your streamer. Did the NAS thing, then went to an external drive, honestly, with... | |
| Options to improve digital sound @signaforce That isn't what I said at all. Cheap mesh is crap. If you look at the FCC tag, then look up the radio spec, most of them are under .1w of power, the CPU parts are inferior, do not handle handoff, or more then a couple devices at once... | |
| HiFiaholics Anonomous! Feel you, thought my amp was going out, panicked, drove 8 hours to pick up another pre & power amp. Got home hooked it up, to find that when my sub was added that the left cable was put in reverse polarity . My setup was in fact perfect, just... | |
| Wi Fi Digital Source Think the issue is one device is playing the music through the streamer, and the other is having the music playing on the streamer and using the device to control it. There is a huge difference between Tidal on a phone, and Tidal Connect on my s... | |
| Leave it on? Interesting, inrush current having an affect on cap life. That is also not any kind of spec on caps. What is a spec is time, temp and voltage. On tubes, they also do not like heat, or voltage spike/changes. There are devices that stop inrush cur... | |
| Options to improve digital sound So, Roon not cpu intensive. Many monitor their cpu utilization in real time and report relatively high utilization with Roon vs other music players. Also I directly monitor cpu usage via Euphony OS, I can do this by direct connection to stream... |