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| 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... | |
| It Pegged the Needle on My "BS Meter". Now, I'm A Believer. Ever Happen to You? @noodlyarm Here's the Monster Cable trick: they supplied a trick speaker cable A/B switch with 20 feet of cable for each gauge. The 18 Ga zipcord all neatly coiled up and an equal length of Monster Cable, which, being heavier gauge, resisted coil... | |
| Ethernet Switch A Netgear 8-Port Switch is just fine. All the switchgear upstream to the streaming source is of no better quality, it's just built to support hundreds, if not thousands of connections, and with extensive - and expensive - network management capabi... | |
| Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation The basic issue is that most speakers are not designed to load into an acoustic half-space and that creates a rise in low and mid-bass most will perceive as thickness or muddiness. Proximity to the rear wall also reduces reflection time from the b... | |
| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? Blu-Tak is my Blu-Tak is my go-to. Other brands can leave an oily smudge or damage the finish of the component below. Gorilla double-sided tape works well and is much grippier, but also pretty close to permanent. | |
| Phono Preamp Gain @tablejockey re: "There shouldn't be any lack of bass with the JBL's." You might want to edit that to say 'mid-bass' as the L100 starts rolling off steeply around 55Hz. It's also a high-Q design with a peak of 6dB or more so an octave above the po... | |
| Crystal Clear Audio Statement -- What Direction? The pointy end. Either of them will do. | |
| Grado Statement 1 Sidebar question: Why would Hovland build a MM phono stages with an input impedance 20X the industry standard? That said, Grado's low inductance design is relatively unaffected by either capacitance or resistance loading. |