peterf6
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| 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). | |
| How do you A/B amps in your system? Thanks for the thoughts, and @lanx0003 thanks for the exact tool. Of course on Audiogon we will have to debate the sound of the switcher! Lol | |
| Favorite scream in rock? @jastralfu cool! I'll listen for David and the other Brandi Carlile. | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Getting a woman in the list: Brandi Carlile, The Story. Also, to the earlier David Lee Roth @jastralfu vote, my understanding is that it was bassist Michael Anthony who did the band's screaming! Roth's range is more limited. | |
| Subwoofer Advice Easy way to check phase on sheffield labs test record, track 22: https://tidal.com/album/11648127?u | |
| Subwoofer Advice +1 on @saboros : did you check the phase? Are you sitting in a room null instead of a good bass node? Good luck! | |
| Re: streaming recommendations for newbie If you're happy with using a computer, adding a USB dac is easy. I like my Schiit Modi multibit. Using other streamers will have you using your phone as an interface. I use ifi zen stream. Very inexpensive ways to try out streaming. | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors You got a lot of opinions on this Q! My reading is that the reflections off the back wall can reinforce the front at the right distance. My experience with Magnepan with sub is the back wall without absorption or deflection behind the speakers is ... |