mswale
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| New vs uses in your current setup Interesting discussion. 90% used, 10% new. My setup is almost all vintage, only things new are my streamer, some cables (others are hand me downs from a audiophile friend), power cords. I did do a full referb on my pre & power amp, put in ... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? My system gets turned on around 6am, the house is asleep, keep it around 60-65db. Once everyone is up and about, kick it up to 75-80db. My system really wakes up around 90db, the sound stage gets huge, you can start to feel the bass, lots more... | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System Either have the cable repaired, or just replace it. Not worth putting all this time and effort into something you know is bad. | |
| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus This in a nutshell is why any device like this will be obsolete in a few years. Why you will need either an IT background, or know a IT person to keep these units running long term. You purchased a cheap computer, in a nice case, applied updates... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? This is hard to define, as everyone has different goals. For me, critical listening has a few steps. 1. How quiet the soft passages are the dark space 2. How different the soft from loud parts are, can a cymbal crash make me jump or surprise ... | |
| Experience with stacked subwoofers? Have been using stacked subs in my HT room for almost a year now. Still sorting the room out, and don't have long enough cables to put them in the proper place. To sort out L/C/R speakers, the subs had to move, so they go stacked in the corner o... | |
| Home-Made Multi-Subwoofer S.W.A.R.M System My HT is all Klipsch speakers including 2 subs. Yes, they do fill the room, gain is set to like 3. They go deep, and make a lot of noise, explosions are grand! However, they are on the boomy side for music. Would use them for dance music, but not ... | |
| Streamer recommendation What's wrong with using the Marantz built in? I know it can do Tidal cast. My HT system is a Marantz, Tidal works well on it, sounds good, like seeing album art and info on the TV screen. It is nice to stream multi channel audio on it. It still do... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Most vintage gear used carbon film, as they were much cheaper over metal film. Then there are carbon comp resistors that are garbage. We're talking about 1/4 and 1/2w that are the majority in all our gear. The 5w and 10w ceramic resistors are a di... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. More people are consuming music now over any other time in history. That being said, quality is not as important. Most kids use cheap earbuds, or cheap BT speakers. Most young people use Spotify, they do not offer Hi-rez streams. Not sure it's i... | |
| A controversial takes on low cost speakers with a lesson... Who knew if you moved speakers around it changed the sound? Did you see the speaker wire used? Looks like cheap came with my $50 speaker wire. Also how he stacked them, had them side by side, reflecting off a table. Did he break in any of the ... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase Guess, my ears are very different, to me Accuphase and AN are end game setups. Both sound wonderful to me. AN to me is a bit overpriced, the gear look bland. Accuphase while also being overpriced, at least looks cool. I will say Accuphase tends ... | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? On my setup, the sound stage gets bigger with volume. The sweet spot is around 95db, it's crystal clear great dynamics, and you can start to feel it. Most of time, it's around 65-70db to not disturb the rest of the house. But when I'm alone, it'... | |
| Streaming recommendations If you are getting dropouts, what are your DNS settings? Change them to google 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 It will work better, and usually gets you faster pings/returns. Stopped my video streaming drops. | |
| Ethernet Wiring ARHG! Everyone needs to stop being an Audiophile with networks. Analog signal is far different over digital packets. The same rules do not apply! Noise is not part of ethernet, noise is not part of WiFi packet transfer. Yes, the radios are noise... |