panzrwagn
Responses from panzrwagn
| Need advice on media player and or dacs First, concentrate on getting your HT properly set up, including acoustical treatments for your room. The LCR speakers should all be matched, and setup using the onboard PEQ. The top (Atmos) and surround speakers should also be voiced similarly, a... | |
| speakers for small room Monitor Audio Gold 200. Specifically designyfor smaller rooms where room dictates placement closer to rear walls. Incredible build & finish, but most notably clean, transparent, and excellent dynamics. The dual rear ports can be individually p... | |
| Wall treatments “Asymmetrical”? The basic acoustical character of the room is set by its dimensions. It is modified by finishes, furnishings, openings, and such. You also need to consider your floors and ceilings. Treating only the walls may help some, but it's a partial solutio... | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing The Marantz CD60 is a strong buy a $999. Marantz is one of the few companies still taking CDs seriously, and both the 6007 ($599) and the CD60 make excellent cases for their success. The CD60 has 2 filters in its DAC, a new output stage and dedica... | |
| Full range stand mounted speakers Maybe I live a charmed life, but our cat has never showed any interest in our leather sectional or my MA 300-7Gs (the bottom of their grille is 18" off the floor). He does make regular use of his 3-Tier scratching post, maybe because it looks out ... | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge @jasonbourne71 Wow, you're running an old-school, stiff MC in maybe the lowest mass tonearm ever. How's the bass? | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge You absolutely cannot go wrong with a Hana, EL, SL, or ML, since you have an appropriate step up device. I have also had A-T and Ortofons in that price range. I liked them both, for different reasons. The Ortofon had either greater detail or a mor... | |
| The Audiophile Upgrade Easiest to Ignore I have tinnitus and the usual HF loss associated with being 70. I have tried several hearing aids, which have mostly varied from hideous to absurd. The best are the Nuheara IQ Buds from Australia, which offer a customized hearing test, and the ful... | |
| I am streaming , how can I play music when provider goes down. Xfinity - goes down more than a $20 hooker on payday. That is an intentionally crude statement in hopes Comcast might realize how embarrassingly poor their service level is. | |
| Probable PayPal Claim I fund my PayPal account with a PayPal MasterCard. Not only to I get a couple points back, when I have an issue, and I have, they are right on it. I recently found numerous small fraudulent PayPal account transactions going back several months. I ... | |
| Amplifier and Speaker A/B switcher Of the switches mentioned, the Van Alstine is the only one supporting level matching. Without level matching there simply is no way a comparison can be valid. As for colorations, any the switch might potentially introduce would be the same across... | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... +1 for the Kenwood KD-500. *3 for the JVC QL-7. Demonstrably better than the equivalent Technics or Denon. | |
| Can anyone explain what a power tube does inside an amplifier, eg kt88. A vacuum tube is a device that uses a small input voltage to control a larger output fed by the resources of the power supply. Typically, the high voltage low amperage output is then sent through a transformer to become a lower voltage, higher a... | |
| Focal Aria 948 For a fun read by Henry Kloss on Hoffman's Iron Law, I recommend this article from Audio magazine, March 1971: https://klhaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/loudspeaker-design-hofmans-iron-law-by-henry-kloss.pdf | |
| Focal Aria 948 Josef Anton Hoffman, the 'H' in KLH was an audio engineer with a storied career that included working on the Manhattan Project in WWII, after which he returned to school at Harvard where he earned his PhD. In his career, he worked at KLH, AR, and ... |