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| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Tholt, Fundamentally I think your comments result from some fairly honest observations. I'm sorry my comments were unhelpful. They were nothing more than MY reflection on MY experience in coming to audio and learning how to listen critically. I wo... | |
| I just bought a Audio Research D-90. Housesound, I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for regarding tube differences. If you are looking for physical descriptions of tubes in general, and what uses to which they are typically put, do some Google research - there are a lot of boo... | |
| Shorting Plugs and Non-shorting Plugs - Wothwhile? You don't have much to loose by trying, they can reduce noise from a source external to the pre-amp. And have worked for me. But so has a good power conditioner or a dedicated line. You won't harm anything by shorting out inputs. But, unfortunatel... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Atmosphere, I find your comments interesting. You may be right. You certainly are right about the 'golden age' of recording techniques 50 years ago that survived the initial introduction of stereo (ping pong anyone) and ultimately, and unfortunatl... | |
| Newbie Preamp Question If you are happy with the gain matching from each of your sources, that is they are not so disportionate when changing from one to another that its irratating, just leave them flat. Do nothing - they are only there for convenience. FWIW, if I had... | |
| Is Solid State Preamp and Tube Amp A Good Combo? Some folks have concluded that most of the benefits of 'tube' in your system is their existence in your amps. Tubes in pre-amps and sources has as much to do with tone, bloom, air, etc, which will not pass unscathed thru a SS amp. I tend to agree ... | |
| Looking for info on headphones You can find headphones for $200, but based on my observations of your other audio goals in other posts you would not be happy with them for anything except the privacy they can provide. At a minimum you need not only good phones but a seperate am... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? "Why don't I just enjoy the music as it is now and forget about upgrades?"Dammed if I know, but it seems to be a disease, some sort of a masculine thing, that all audiophiles suffer from, at least to some degree. FWIW, at least it worked for me, I... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? That you can't reliably hear differences is not surprising for a lot of reasons....and Tvads advise is sound.Consider that 1) Your equipment may not be resolving enuf to reveal subtle differences that exist in many ss digital devices.Consider that... | |
| I just bought a Audio Research D-90. Usually a tube amp puts out the same wattage into any load, unlike a SS amp which doubles down until it runs out of current, often 4 ohms and in inexpensive amps somewhat above that. A few big tube amps even have 2 ohm taps though but their power ... | |
| Does speaker toe-in affect reflection points? It certainly changes the critical part of the reflection point, not only on the side walls but on the ceiling and the floor as well. Not a small thing, BTW, but often overlooked. Remember when you are thinking about side wall reflections that the ... | |
| unbiased opinion of Moon monoblocs "Thanks for the illumination" But, it was not you that I was trying to illuminate. I thought your bulb was already operating at full output. :-)Maybe I'm humorless, or just a dim bulb, but I failed to see his 'real reason' for posting as anything ... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Age of listeners v age of speakers, is I think relevent, but I would add that a lot depends on the recording practices and electronics that existed in the period of time when the recordings were made and how they would sound on equipment contempor... | |
| So Much "Harshness" At the risk of sounding like Mr T, when we are referring to harshness, what assumptions are we working on, i.e. the extent of the complaints that folks are making about the degree of the complainers experience of harshness? For example, in my resp... | |
| unbiased opinion of Moon monoblocs Everything is relative. To get a meaningful answer to your question, assuming one is available, you must reveal a bit of your audiophile soul.1) What speakers will you be using?2) How loud will you be listening. What is important to you about the ... |