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| SME 20/2 Static Electricity You could consider using a humidifier. It may help with both the static electricity and the storage conditions for your vinyl records. Some platter mat materials can help. | |
| Help in minimizing hiss If the hiss is due to an electronic component's noise floor, you cannot remove or negate it short of getting new electronics with a lower noise floor. Alternatively raising the signal-to-noise but that becomes difficult with your 101dB speakers.A ... | |
| Lumin D2 or Mytek Brooklyn Bridge for Tidal, Quboz The Lumin D2 and the Mytek Brooklyn Bridge sound about how you might expect from their respective choice in DAC chips (the D2 using the Wolfson WM8741 and the Brooklyn using the ESS Sabre ES9028PRO). So it will really come down to your preference. | |
| Passive preamp A few of the replies are saying no added gain, or no gain stage, but more precisely a passive preamp should use no active components in the audio signal path (e.g. it would be fine to use active components for a display or to support a remote cont... | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok @mayoradamwest I think you meant to say the dCS approach does not have the hint of brittleness that you heard with the Mytek? | |
| Pass Labs or Devialet They sound completely different. What type of sound are you looking for? | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok @david_ten well, Lumin is using output transformers as part of their analog stage which adds some color but otherwise retains the detail provided by the ESS DAC chips.To a large degree the goal and result is similar to that of the DAC I designed, ... | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok I carry Lumin and have the X1 here, and was just at a client's place last week who has a dCS Vivaldi stack. I'd say the sound character goals of Lumin and dCS are probably best considered as different, so you'd need to hear them to decide which di... | |
| Lumin U1 Mini - LPS vs upgraded power cord The engineering and science comparing a linear power supply to a switching power supply is documented. | |
| Headphone Amp for Focal Clear Headphones (Bryston BHA-1?) I can't speak specifically to the Bryston BHA-1 with the Focal Clear, but we use the BHA-1 as our reference headphone amp because they can drive everything to their fullest potential and transparently. The Audeze LCD headphone line benefits a lot ... | |
| Room correction help I've had bad luck with keeping Flokati rugs clean and in good condition. Even though the thick pile seems attractive, it isn't necessarily as dense as other rugs and the density of absorption is what you care about.In terms of rug size, covering t... | |
| Any Love for Magico S5 Original Version? IIRC, one of my clients had an original pair of S3 speakers (from some other dealer, not from me) and was very happy with them. I’m pretty sure they were the original model but I could be mistaken.People’s budgets are people’s budgets, so it all d... | |
| Chinese Power conditioners The only way to be sure would be to try and get a look at the internals to evaluate it yourself.At a lower price point you could look at APC. | |
| Musical Fidelity M6i/M6si to drive 4Ohm Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor Amplifiers having greater power capacity than the maximum recommended rating for a speaker doesn't mean you will damage the speaker or that it will be incompatible. On the contrary it typically means you have less to worry about in terms of the am... | |
| Keep SVS SB16 or change to REL S5 music only You could also try changing the placement or PEQ settings of the SB16-Ultra. There's a fair chance it sounds boomy because of placement. |