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| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier @jasonbourne71 Ahh, but did the Audio Precision AP-555 have blacker backgrounds and a bigger soundstage? I think not! 🤔 | |
| Looking for a component for ripping and playing CD's. As long as you are ripping to a FLAC file, a laptop or PC will be fine. If you want to 'roll your own' I'd recommend using an external NAS (Network Attached Storage) from someonelike Synology. If you want easy, it's hard to beat the Bluesound Vau... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? "If you can’t hear it you either have the wrong cables, an insufficient system, an inability to hear those differences or confirmation bias against cables." Or Door #4, there are no audible differences to be heard. Claiming 'insufficient syste... | |
| ReL Subs: High Level or Low Level connection After 50 years selling (beginning with the original M&K subs in 1974), designing, building, and using subwoofers in both home and professional live music here's what I know about connecting subwoofers. There are no advantages to using high (s... | |
| That Transformational piece of Gear We All Wish For A properly dimensioned and treated room. Preferably that could accommodate properly placed Magneplanars. Everything else is pretty small potatoes by comparison. | |
| VPI to What My other passion are cars. If you go on bringatrailer.com there are usually several Asto Marin V8 Vantages for sale. Many have only been owned for a year or so. I asked one owner why he was selling and he replied, "The Vantage us the best exotic I... | |
| All around headphone amp recommendations Take $200 and get a Topping DX3 Pro+ DAC/HPA if you only want to listen to streaming source material or spend a whopping $60 for a Douk Audio U10 tube HPA with the GE5654 tube upgrade. You will have to supply your own high power USB (>2 Amp / 1... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Good source will sound better on mediocre speakers than mediocre source will sound on good speakers. And FWIW, there are some pretty damn good inexpensive speakers out there. Let's just call it at $1000 per pair tops and that you've got an average... | |
| Shouldn’t Do This, but… Just tell him you need to upgrade the outlet for some sensitive electronics and you'll pay for it. If he pushes back, tell him if it didn't matter you wouldn't be asking. And, the NEC 240 24.b is the real deal. If he won't comply, call it in to t... | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? In the middle '70s Tom Holman looked at the interactions between phone carts and preamps and designed a photo stage that addressed those, and many other issues including an 18dB/octave subsonic filter that effectively kills low frequency woofer fl... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? GoldenEar T66, Magnepan 3.7 (only if you have a Maggie-friendly room), KEF LS-60, Monitor Audio Gold 200. Any of those will fit your requirements, and they couldn’t be more different: a fully powered system, the LS-60s, the hybrid T-66, a traditio... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i I bought my Node last fall because of one feature - a headphone jack. I was about to have shoulder replacement surgery and looking at about a month of enforced indolence. You don't move around much for at least the first couple weeks, so I wanted... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? And of course the listeners were unaware of file type and metadata status for each trial, correct? And the tests were randomized to prevent observer bias? And the results were corroborated across multiple listeners, using multiple trials? And all... | |
| Preamps ... no bass or treble control? If we accept Dr. Greenman's assertion that tone controls are represented by a transfer function, then then any mechanism altering tone is represents that transfer function, whether cable or amplifier. Note also that the room represents an entirel... | |
| Best Subwoofer Connection for Music @oldrooney "I don’t know why anyone recommends using high level I/O for integrating subs in a music system, but I swear I have read/heard the advice more than once, and it always caused me to scratch my head. I couldn’t figure out why they would r... |