mward
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| Blue Note Tone Poet Series Agreed on stereo Blue Train. It might be one of the best Tone Poets so far. | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile “There is an inverse relationship between sound quality and features. Feature rich audio stuff is mid-fi or low-fi.” Not sure that always holds up. I’ve seen a few features withheld by manufacturers until you reach their higher tier models. Pa... | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile Did Stereophile give it that rating for sound quality or features? The Freya+ has a killer set of features: Stepped attenuator volume control, RCA and XLR inputs and outputs, 3 output modes - passive mode, solid state gain mode without tubes, full... | |
| High Fidelity Cables, why most threads about them got deleted +1 stager | |
| Mounting Speakers On A Furniture Dolly For Mobility I’ve found that the height of the speaker from the floor is a big factor in sound quality, especially in the bass. Higher equals less bass and fullness. I don’t think this is simply a matter of driver height in relation to your ears either. Speak... | |
| HOW CRITICAL ARE JUMPER CABLES I compared silver wire jumpers to copper wire jumpers recently. They make a difference. The silver jumpers gave me beautiful detail but stole dynamics on drums. The difference was obvious. | |
| old ears Do you have zero hearing ability in the upper frequencies, or reduced hearing in those frequencies? If you have reduced hearing like when the audiologist tells you you only hear 25% in that range then you are probably looking for a bump in those f... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? Another vote for multibit dacs. Very analog sounding. | |
| New to vinyl - How to get the best out of old classical discs? Nobsound products seem like such low quality products from China, I always have a hard time with this advice when I see it. Not saying springs don’t work, just not sure about this brand. | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! I have found in my own experience that anytime I change the distance from the bottom of a floor standing speaker to the floor, the sound will change. Increased space usually decreases bass. It can be used to clean up excess bass, but can also have... | |
| Power cord choice? WyWires is having a 10th anniversary sale. 40% off their platinum line. $1000 power cord for $600 is in your price range. I haven’t tried one before, just letting you know about the sale. | |
| Ice Age Audio Cables Q & A Following up on my last post. I bought the copper-silver power cord for my phono stage in hopes of making my system a little more musical. I’ve been using a WireWorld Sliver Electra 7 and PS Audio AC5 combination on various components and it was ... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? My current theory on speaker cables, cables in general, and every other component in an audio system is that they all shape sound into puzzle pieces. The puzzle pieces of that sound connect to the joining puzzle pieces of your ears and brain. The... | |
| Help with first cable upgrade. I’m a big fan of power cords so that’s a valid choice. Quickest bang for the buck is still the Loki for sure. Power cords are fun but it’s hard to find good ones for the price of a Loki. Ice Age is the only company I can think of whose best cable... | |
| Rega Planar 3: Is the Exact a significant upgrade from the Elys 2? If you stick with the Elys 2 because you want to do upgrades later, you may find yourself looking at bigger upgrades than the Exact. You may decide you want moving coil instead of mm and then consider the Rega Ania. If that turns out to be the c... |