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| Is Apple Music lossless/uncompressed? Anytime you use Apple products or services you enter the Apple 'walled garden' that only works well with other Apple products. Some people like to refer to it as a 'walled jungle' to reflect the complexity and and challenges within - see discussio... | |
| New Router, New Streamer, New Questions There are 2 issues here 1) the time it takes to build the file index and the scalability of the device doing the indexing. A 500GB Disk will take half the time a 1 Gig disk to build the index. 2) the file index takes room - memory in the router. Y... | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions You are looking at two great speakers, both of which would benefit from sn amp.upgrade. You have an Adcom GFA-5400 - that's a Nelson Pass designed 100W MOSFET that was a great amp new and is still competitive today. I'm pretty sure your Marantz ha... | |
| Moving From USA Overseas... Looking For Advice re: Electrical Service and Gear Transformers as the consensus indicates, are when properly sized, no problem. 50/60 Hz regenerator are a very different story. Many are absolutely not intended for use with electronics - they regenerate 60Hz square waves with all the associated HF... | |
| New speakers for a new start? You have a big room. You need a big room speaker. Most of the recommendations here are for medium sized rooms at best, or way over your #5K limit. I would definitely check out the new SVS Ultra evolution Pinnacles. With 4-8" woofers (2 high front... | |
| Best Affordable 5.1 AND Stereo Receiver to Drive Meadowlark Heron-i Speakers I will avoid the arrogance and ignorance of certain posters and reply directly to the question. The upper range of Marantz AVR are quite good. They are among the few manufacturers who do actually listen and tune their equipment for sound quality. ... | |
| Bookshelf speaker recommendations I agree with Deep333’s analysis. You have a couple nasty room nodes - eigentones as they are formally called that are likely at the root of your issue. Seeing as you can’t realistically pull the speakers into the room, and damping them is not feas... | |
| CD Player Suggestions under $ 500 My Marantz was the first CD player I ever owned that sounded noticeably and immediately smoother and more musical. That's saying a lot for a $600 retail product. Second place definitely goes to NAD, followed close behind by the Yamaha. | |
| Suggestions on improvement If at age 78 you're still getting your beard buttered, you have no real complaints. As for your system, acoustical treatments aren't necessarily ugly. Wite panels on a white ceiling are practically invisible and make a big improvement on the large... | |
| Leave it Open or Close it Off: A Listening/ Living Room Dilemma I'm a big fan of pocket doors, but there's a couple things to remember. 1) Get the good pocket door hardware. The cheap stuff will haunt and vex you. 2) Do bot use hollow core doors. They're made from hardboard in a cheap perimeter frame with stri... | |
| Need A High Compliance Cartridge Soundsmith carts are available in low, medium, and high compliance, plus have a pretty amazing story behind them - including a great rebuild policy. https://www.sound-smith.com/cartridge-compliancearm-mass-chart | |
| Do different speaker stands can really make a big sound improvement? Harbeth uses a lossy cabinet design, not a resonant one. If you think differently, I suggest you pull a woofer or drop the front panel and check out the bituminous damping pads attached to the cabinet walls. I assure you, they do not ring like a S... | |
| Amp for Vintage Heresy We'll leave out the part about Klipsch Heresy's sound quality and lack of bass for now and focus on doing what can be done to work with what you have. Given their 99dB sensitivity, 10-20 watts is plenty, 30-40 is overkill unless you like loud and ... | |
| Bluesound I installed the upgrade. No problems, no change, good or bad, in SQ. Between the 4 software platforms I have to contend with, HEOS , BluOS, Sonos and Amazon, it seems competitive, but none of them I would rate above 'fair', except Sonos, which str... | |
| Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation @blackiridium re: "So the ATC and Proac models wouldn't be loud enough?" Those pesky Laws of Physics again. If you review the calculations I made, you need a speaker with a peak output capability of around 114dB. The other wise great ProAc D2R is... |