nymarty
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| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? As others have already mentioned, speaker placement and listening position placement. For my room it was moving my speakers close to positions that were recommended by Vandersteen (intersection of points in the room that are 1/7th or 1/5th or 1/3... | |
| PreAmp suggestion for Willsenton R8; uk based Why do you need a preamp? Isn't the Willsenton R8 an integrated amp with built-in preamp (ie. switching, volume, etc.)? Or are you looking for a phono preamp? If you need a phono preamp, what's the rest of your system? | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range I missed that you already bought a Parasound A23+. Congrats and enjoy! | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range My recommendation for your budget and speakers is the Schiit Vidar 2. I have the original Schiit Vidar that I was using for a while and thought it was exceptional for the money and used it to drive LS50 Metas. From what I've read, the new Vidar... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps Thanks @soix ! How am I supposed to sell my DNA-1 now? I was banking on some poor unsuspecting audiophile to overspend on my 25+ year old amp and that will never happen now. All joking aside though, it's still a really good amp and I'm caught b... | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 Following this thread to learn more about some higher priced DACs and this digital amp from Peachtree. | |
| PS Audio M700 with the Vandersteen 2ci I’m auditioning an Orchard Audio Starkrimson Ultra stereo amp right now with Vandersteen 3a Signatures. It’s a great pairing. It’s the first class D amp I’ve ever had in my system and it’s a very good amp. The amp provides some of he best bass ... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? This is an interesting thread. I’m very curious about what the fiber connect will do to improve your digital signal. I’m generally curious about the whole bits part of the chain and what magnitude of improvements can be made there. For $163 it’s ... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects @holmz I think we’re all right. Let me explain. I set up the balanced cables out of my preamp (Schiit Freya +) and ran them to the Emotiva XLR to RCA converters to another short RCA interconnect to Belles Aria Monoblocks and, eureka, no hum,no ... | |
| Help fine-tune my speaker search Update on the speaker search…. I bought a very nice pair of used Vandersteen 3A Signatures yesterday. I’ve always liked a Vandy’s when I’ve heard them so I thought the best thing would be to just try a pair in my room. Will use them with the Bel... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects @holmz I was able to try your original suggestion. I was on Emotiva’s website to buy a 12V trigger and they had XLR to RCA adapters, so I bought 2 of them. I hooked up a pair of 20’ balanced XLR cables to my preamp, added the adapter just befor... | |
| I’m about to push the button to get 2 SVS 3000 micros to add to ATC SCM40s. SVS doesn’t get enough love in the audiophile world. Nice choice of subs. I use two SB1000 Pros and like that they can do both low level or high level connections. I also really like that you can dial them in from the listening seat via the app.... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects @dougthebiker for the win on solving the hum. Thanks! One of my amps - Schiit Vidar - was in the system after swapping out the monoblocks. When I disconnected everything from the amp except speakers and power, there was still that hum. Couldn’t... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects Spoke too soon about no hum. It got really quiet in the house tonight and had a good listening session and left the earlier comment where I said "No hum. No noise." When I stopped playing music and stood up, I heard a slight hum. I got closer t... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects Thanks, all. It sounds like the consensus is to stick with single-ended RCA cables of good quality and with good shielding. I’ve had no issue with the 15’ RCA cables I’m using now and they were fairly inexpensive. No hum, no noise. Open to any s... |