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| How best to arrange cables in this room... Every gas fireplace I have come across is basically a small, steel firebox with a 6"-8" exhaust pipe that gets routed outside the home, surrounded by wood framing and drywall, creating a huge "shell" enclosing a lot of wasted space inside. You ca... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? In my opinion , I’m sure it can be measured with instruments as being real. But, can those measured differences actually be heard or just our ears and brains adjusting to the new component/ speaker? Here’s a good test: Buy a set of used speakers... | |
| Yes, another audiophile at a crossroads story and request for advice @ezstreams that's the hard part to suggest, I think, since there are so many possible combinations of gear, tubes, peoples listening perceptions, etc. For me, I just kept a notebook and marked down how each combination sounded so I could refer ... | |
| Yes, another audiophile at a crossroads story and request for advice I would first try some tube rolling in the integrated. You can completely change the sound of an amplifier by experimenting with different tube combinations. | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. How long is a piece of string? It's all relative. Some gear out there I dream of owning, some Audiophile gatekeepers, call it "midfi." While my humble system would be an audiophile system to regular folks or those that are just entering the hob... | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? Take your time. It's a journey, not a destination. | |
| Recommendations for 7 channel amp McIntosh MC207 (used) ? | |
| Active Speakers - Anything new coming? Sonus Faber just released their Duetto’s. If they sound as great as they look, they should be a home run. | |
| Pairing with LS50 for whole home audio If you have a Bluesound Node then you would just add onto it in the other rooms with Bluesound Powernodes. You can also do a similar idea with Sonos using a Port and Sonos Amps, which cost a little bit less than Bluesound. | |
| Preamp has too much gain Hopefully after 16 years, he was able to figure it out. | |
| Adding a power trigger to an amp that doesn't have one For the unit I mentioned, you would leave the amplifier turned on and plugged into the DigiKey piece. As show in the description, there is a trigger located on the side of it that is activated by any small AC or DC voltage up to about 30V. You wou... | |
| Adding a power trigger to an amp that doesn't have one Here you go: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sparkfun-electronics/COM-14236/7652745?so=82447040&content=productdetail_US&mkt_tok=MDI4LVNYSy01MDcAAAGNLSl3eMCQoWx_uE0aps9qC0jvhT3UM2ui_MgTMSlC5n314_cBzw8MfaduIuUIDTrDFwK... | |
| ? about Smoking Power Amp About 3 months ago I had to document an equipment fire at work. It was an older, but high-quality, multichannel amplifier. It did catch fire in the rack and destroyed the new surround processor directly above it, the new Parasound amplifier below ... | |
| Foot Fall Is it on carpet? | |
| Need a new Class AB SS integrated...$2-3k due to hurricane How about a Rotel RA-1572? I have its predecessor, the 1570 in my office system and it’s fantastic for me. I originally bought the 1570 as a stop-gap after I sold my McIntosh integrated and I actually love its sound more. I now use it as a prea... |