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| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Sounds like you’re interested in a low maintenance solution, so reliability and servicability are important criteria along with sound quality. I’m not a huge fan of the esoteric cottage shop brands because of having tried to find service for exoti... | |
| Isoacoustic puck mini's or orea bronze for 12 pound tube preamp I'd go on Amazon and order Sorbothane pucks, donuts, squares, whatever you need from there. You can get what you need for probably $20. Sorbothane is a very good, fairly generic, and widely available isolation material used for all kinds of vibrat... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST @audphile1 I think I wasn’t clear in what I was saying. The job of a DAC is to convert the digital bitstream input into an analog output. All DACs must do that identically or the ones at variance are defective. But that part of the job is incomp... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST All DACS must be 100% accurate in decoding the bitstream or else they are defective. So yes, all DACS have to sound the same. Where they may vary is in reconstruction filters and analog output stage. Power supply differences are again largely myt... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST Resolution is defined by the sample rate and bit depth. Both of those in turn are defined by your source. Any DAC that changes even a single bit in the bitstream is by definition, defective. So, no. The Weiss will not have, cannot have, better res... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” If you want to simply relax and enjoy the music with a piece of gear that will put a smile on your face ever time you use it, then your shortlist should definitely include the Luxman 505 100/150 W/Ch or 507 110/200 W/ch Z series and the Mark Levin... | |
| Is the microwave the perfect model for audio marketting? @noromance You are 100% spot on! @CDC Thanks to modern micromotors, power windows weigh less, cost less, and are more reliable than manual windows. That's why they're nearly universal today. I suggest everyone get a copy of 'The Design of Everyd... | |
| Room is way too bright. The issue is not the output of the speaker into your room, it is the output of the room into your ears. This is the fundamental misunderstanding about equalization and all the other proposed fixes that don't fundamentally change your room acoustic... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Can't add much to this list, but I can add votes for several: Eva Cassidy "Live at Blues Alley" Jackson Browne "Running on Empty" Rory Gallagher "Irish Tour '74" The Band et al "The Last Waltz" Neil Diamond "Hot August Nights" Joni Mitchell ... | |
| Good preamp for under $300 You will likely be very disappointed in anything less than your Apt preamp. It was and is one of the great pieces of audio equipment of the pre-digital era. Not just because Tom Holman pretty much redefined how you build a phono stage that doesn't... | |
| Shrink Totem 1's? Get a pair of wall or ceiling mounts from Amazon. Shouldn't cost more than about $20 each. Get classy and run the cables into the wall/ceiling and out to your amp. Get a set of fiberglass wiring 'Fish Sticks' from harbor Freight for about $12 or r... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! While McIntosh will always have multiple entries on this list, I believe the true winner of this year's UCOTY Award goes to ML1 Loudspeaker Mk II. Truly it answers questions no one asked while ignoring multiple basic rules of design and acoustical... | |
| 2-way design vs. 3-way design means ? And then there was the Bose 901. No way. | |
| Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G Loudspeakers. $2600/pr.They work incredibly well in smaller rooms. The dual rear ports allow fine tuning for your room. The rear driver mounting setup bolts also allows tuning the cabinet to your taste. But don’t take m... | |
| Sonos has released a compact subwoofer Sub Mini I bought one of the Sonos small subs to go with a Sinos Beam in our main bedroom system. I am very impressed for both video and streaming music at 'normal' listening levels. If you want true lifelike volumes, this ain't your setup. Within those li... |