peterf6
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| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? I've sat in the booths a tiny bar with a jazz big band taking up the entire floor. It was amazing, but if I played my system at that kind of volume it would seem crazy loud—even though my living room is larger than that bar. I think the microcosm ... | |
| Gain level on a REL sub I have a single REL T2 (8" driver+ 10" radiator). 10'x15' room. I can barely turn on the gain knob or the bass is overwhelming. The notes about the phase switch and placement seem best. You can also play with the crossover point to put it higher s... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @nkeler Nathan, would you mind sharing the name of the music journal app you use? | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening Thank you for the beautiful description of mindful listening. I appreciate you bringing the poetic nature of intentional listening to the forum. Lots of good points in the comments, but none with your eloquence! Bravo. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @rudd2004 thanks for the recommendation for Masterpieces! Sound is gorgeous (I'm listening on Tidal through a Marantz 8b), and the story of the recording is fascinating. For anyone else who's interested: https://slate.com/culture/2014/12/duke-elli... | |
| Why did you purchase the equipment you have and what do you like most about it? This is a fun topic. Thank you to everyone who shared their inspiration and outcome. As I read so many people talking about dealers, it reminded me of the used hi-fi shop where I went to buy a stereo for my first apartment (late 70s). I was asking... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? There is some good description of what makes a difference here, from the founder of Soundsmith: https://youtu.be/F65mODzn4Gk?si=chNaLUA7EOkvrW6s | |
| Replace tubes yearly? @silverfoxvtx1800 ICYI: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-reference-6sn7-thread.117677/ | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? @webking185 You make such a nice point: Once you are listening to a certain level of sound quality, you're not so much listening for a difference between apples and oranges as you are for nuances between varieties of apples. I'm swapping a Marantz... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? @bassbuyer That looks like a cool one. I love that the VU meters are so broken down in the sub 10 Watts area. You can watch to see how often you get beyond the first watt! | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? It makes total sense that you gain one set of information from long-term varied listening and another from the immediate A/B of a section that the switching devices provides. The one is more of a gestalt of the amp while the other provides details... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks, @mashif, I also have a Schiit Freya preamp available -- which has multiple pre-out options. It would help with allowing keeping input connections into different amps and remove one element from switching, requiring just the speaker cable c... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thank you all for sharing your experiences and what you have found useful. @toddalin thanks for sharing your design and the warning about tube amps (which is one of what I'm comparing). And I guess @zlone your experience shows that it's possible t... | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks @carlsbad2 . I do that in my studio, sometimes, but it's not an option in our living room 😄 | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? It dawns on me that the advice to listen long also allows for the amp to settle into the system (which seems like voodoo but I always notice that it helps). |