onhwy61
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| Mellow speakers Is the problem only with your digital source or with both vinyl and digital? If it's only with digital, then use a program like Pure Vinyl that provides EQ/tone controls.Your PMCs are great loudspeakers that present what they are fed. You might ... | |
| Is Audio nirvana real? Congratulations! So what's your system? | |
| Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it NPR Newshour just had a segment with Virginia voters about the presidential election.. It was held in someone's house and on a bookcase in the rear of the room were vinyl records. You could very clearly see Jeff Beck's "Wired". Just another reaso... | |
| Replace C28 with... ? It might be helpful if you explained why you are replacing equipment. Are you trying to achieve a specific sonic goal? | |
| LP Cleaning Man you need to switch to decaf! | |
| Upgrade my DAC or buy more weed? Great question! I think it's self evident that intoxicants can greatly improve your listening experience. There have been lengthy threads on vodka and scotch whiskeys, so why not weed? | |
| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? I would try swapping cables, starting with the Sony to ARC, before replacing the preamp. My memory of that period Straightwire was that they were detailed and slightly bright. | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? If you listen to only certain types of music and never exceed certain volume levels, then I imagine the truncated frequency response, limited dynamic range and high distortion levels of an 8" bass driver really wouldn't present a problem. If you ... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND Atmashpere, thanks for taking the time to reply.I misrepresented Putzkey when I said the distortion spectrum resulting from negative feedback was random. I should have said higher order harmonics instead of random.Whether is right or wrong in the... | |
| NHT Placement Help Owned 3.3 many years ago. If I remember correctly the listener distance was 1.5x the loudspeaker separation. | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND Atmasphere, I'd like your opinion on Bruno Putzey's latest class D amp design philosophy. I've read that he once held the same view as you do regarding negative feedback producing random upper order harmonics, but he's now broke with that orthodo... | |
| DACs that upsample to DSD internally? Format conversion is probably the most accurate terminology. I'm not sure that converting to DSD will give you more detail. If anything my Esoteric when used in that manner sounds smooth, actually very smooth.How did you come to the conclusion t... | |
| Speaker shipping help It's around a 14 hour drive one way. Assuming you have a vehicle that can fit them, I'd drive. Gas will run you $200-250, an inexpensive hotel and a reasonable dinner (and other meals) and you're around $400. Is this comparable to the shipping ... | |
| Priorities... There is absolutely nothing in the audiophile realm that one "must have". There are only things you want and impulses that you can either control or not.To the OP, it doesn't sound like you can really afford the loudspeaker upgrade right now. Tr... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND Static THD measurements alone won't tell you how an amplifier will sounds when driving a loudspeaker. It's far more complex. |