ozfly
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| Why even bother? Sedond, could you share your tuner set-ups, including mods, with us? After reading through this post again, perhaps I should pursue more fm nirvana! If so, I'd much rather start right and without having to spend an arm and a leg. Any suggestions w... | |
| Why even bother? Misterl, if we settle on a $5,000 tuner price for discussion purposes (e.g., one of the dynalabs is that costly), I agree with you. For my lifestyle, I'd prefer to spend no more than $2,000 on a tuner and invest the rest in other system upgrades o... | |
| How much difference between balanced XLR and RCA Eandylee, a differential amp is one where each of the signals is run through it's own amplification stage: Right hot, right neutral, left hot, left neutral. This requires a very careful matching of output devices (e.g., FET's). That's my understan... | |
| DAC/Transport to a one box CD - need suggestions I've not heard the Lector, but the Opus 21 is a very nice unit. The Talk (3.1?) cd is also great and there's a sale on them at Canadian HiFi -- my experience is that the music pauses inexplicably on occasion, but the sound is very nice. I'd also c... | |
| How much difference between balanced XLR and RCA Virtually everyone agrees that XLR works best for long runs of cable (my personal preference is for XLR end to end, regardless of length -- but my DAC's are only set up for balanced in and I use single ended out and they sound very fine). If your ... | |
| Are There Any Inherent Advantages to Class A amps? Please help me out here. There seem to be lots of conflicting definitions of class A. The references Tripper cites clearly indicate that class A can be a push pull design. Virtually everything I've read in the past here on the Gon also support tha... | |
| Voodoo/Tsunami Power Cords That's interesting. I just read an ad here on the Gon that also claims the Voodoo sounds great on cd players. Since front ends are, I believe, most sensitive to cables, I'd guess the Voodoo change was the key. If you had another cable, even the st... | |
| Virtually free system upgrade? Alrau, I meant to say the baseboard rather than the floorboard, but either could wreck things as Jayctoy attests. Large solid surfaces that resonate with the music can wreck havoc.I heard a Bosendorfer speaker not too long ago during a private aud... | |
| Virtually free system upgrade? Thanks for the post Alrau. You are right in pointing out that secondary, sympathetic vibrations from other parts of the listening room can muddy the sound. That's why it's important to have very stiff surfaces or non-resonating absorbers (e.g., cu... | |
| What is "slope"??? Ezmeralda, Jeffrey -- thanks for the the clarification on the slope values. My memory doesn't seem to work quite as well as it once did ;-) Next time I'll confirm before I post. | |
| What is "slope"??? Expanding just a bit on Marakanetz's response, the slope is the decrease in signal strength per octave. So a first order cross-over has a slope of -3db and it goes up from there -- second is -6, third is -12, fourth is -24. The decrease begins at ... | |
| AR Turntable Website going online today Neat site. I've got the "AR Turntable" and look forward to the continued growth of vinylnirvana. | |
| Sound is too thin. What to upgrade, add or remove? Ipy, what is Walker SST? Thanks | |
| Sound is too thin. What to upgrade, add or remove? Kal & Robm are spot on. Your room looks like a poster child for rooom treatments. Some of these can have a high WAF (I actually prefer PAF - partner acceptance factor). For example, I just got some nice thick curtains for my room to cover the ... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Hear, hear Flex. If we don't know what we don't know, let's learn some of it! At the end, the ears are the judge, but we can get better at this through research. |