photon46
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| Wood blocks underneath components?? snake oil? Well, this thread prompted me to try a bit of experimentation. I bought a bit of good quality mahogany and mpingo (african backwood) 1"x1" stock. My reasoning being that these woods are about as sonically dissimilar as any pairing. Mahogany is mel... | |
| Seeking advise on 6922 tubes for a preamplifier.. One thing to remember is that you can gain more or less benefit from a tube depending on their position. You might not need to replace all the tubes to get improvements. The amount of gain you need from a tube also influences how much risk you wil... | |
| Achieving audio system synergy Bill, the advice that I would offer is this: you will possibly not be happy with anything unless you include some rudimentary room acoustic treatment in your budget. The room is a part of your music reproduction chain, maybe the most important. A ... | |
| Any good vinyl shops in Orlando? Thanks for the heads up on those two shops. I'd done several searches for information about shops like these in the past. Sometimes it amazes how ineffective search engines can be at returning information you need. | |
| Any good vinyl shops in Orlando? I live 45 minutes down the road from Orlando and attempts to find vinyl in Orlando have proven futile. The only seller of vinyl I've found there is the Virgin Megastore at Downtown Disney, and their Jazz and Blues offerings vary from mediocre to s... | |
| Guitar player? , What model do you own or play? Electrics: '94 Hamer Strat, maple neck, '93 Hamer t-52 tele. These Hamers are really excellent instruments for a mid level price, every bit as good as any Fender custom shop I've played. Hamers are IMO, one the best values in guitars. Also got a '... | |
| The Isolator: the latest rip-off? Opinions about efficacy aside, those who are amazed at the price should first try to make something like this themselves. As somone who has worked a long time making Fine Art sculpture editions, I can guarantee you'd be amazed how much time a seem... | |
| Question on testing a used Magnepan 2.6R Strooper, it's hard to give you an exact answers to your questions. If you are handy with tools and repairing things, it is possible for a Maggie owner to make their own repairs to a delaminated speaker panel. This is the most likely encountered r... | |
| What speakers can make a convert of Maggie lovers? Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. Several of those mentioned are models that I have on my short list and there are others that are new to me. There is certainly quite a range of varied technologies represented amongst those mentioned. Re: ... | |
| eac vs itunes ripping Holderlin, EAC is a windows only program. The only way we Mac users can use EAC is use VirtualPC software. I have found that I can rip files in Itunes from discs that have flaws which cause audible dropouts, skips, etc. and the Itunes error correc... | |
| Eichmann Bullet Connector versus XLR While my experience does not directly shed light on the Eichmann part of the question, it does on the XLR vs. RCA. My preamp is single ended and I asked PS Audio's Paul McGowan about whether there are advantages using XLR vs RCA connections. He an... | |
| Which better in Class D PS Audio or Bel Canto???? In contrast with F1a and Mahandave, I have found PS Audio to work exceptionally well with Maggie 1.6's and found Belles to be remarkably dull and lifeless with the same. Just goes to show system synergy and listener tastes are so varied. It's toug... | |
| I'm confuse Do i need a dac for my cd player ? Yes, the new dac will "revoice" you digital sound, BUT, the player/transport also has a distinct role to play in the final sound. I have heard quite distinct differences between player/transports feeding the same dac. Some do better than others, n... | |
| Is Melos Audio Restoration out of business? There is a recent thread about this on the Audioasylum under the amp/preamp category. Seems the owner Will recently died of a heart attack & the business is closed. | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Let me jump in here with a slightly off topic question I'm very curious about. There is one so far unmentioned problem with computer audio I haven't seen addressed, namely fan noise. How do the contributors to this thread deal with it? I nearly we... |