randy-11
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| Power cord for digital stuffs? ^ shill?? | |
| Pros and cons of vintage Dynaco ST-70 http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/legendary-dynaco-st70-has-been-relaunched/When new, they were reliable and good sounding.Dynaco also made a pre-amp & tuner... | |
| Speakers are the first piece of the puzzle The crucial concept here is that of the room & speakers. They will always have the greatest distortion, the largest deviations from a flat frequency response. | |
| Here's a fire starter: Analog is as good as SACD Restatement of a post above:It all depends on the recording and mastering done by the sound engineers. Sometimes vinyl's preferable despite the snap, crackle & pop because the compression effs up the CD so much.Sometimes the CD, SACD or HiRes... | |
| Loud popping sounds after warm-up if it is 15 or 20 years old, you may have electrolytic caps that are going bad----> serious business as they could blow your speakers AND the rest of the amp | |
| Power cord for digital stuffs? not clear what the OP means here - if the AC cable to the PS, then Noif the DC cable from PS to the unit (e.g. a DAC) then making a star-quad type cable might be useful; IIRC they can also be bought for a small price | |
| Open Floor Plan Listening Room an open floor plan shouldn't really have a null spot | |
| Vandersteens, PSB or something else? all are good; add Magnepan 3.7i to your auditions - easily had at $4k for used, or $6k at a dealerI eventually replaced my Vandies with MaggiesYes, the live recordings that you're listening to would really benefit from a big upgrade to the speaker... | |
| Suggest a new amp/preamp/Dac streaming combo Creek Evo with the Ruby DAC module will actually answer your question and sounds very good50 W or 100 W amps depending on your choicethat will leave some $$ for the streaming unit | |
| Which do I keep? keep the canto | |
| Which do I keep? keep the cayin | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? spend big money on a new listening room or new housebuild it on top of a big block of granite too | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? why waste money on Quads & Harbeth when a good $50,000 power cord and some oxytocin injections will make it much bettah! | |
| Room Acoustics can you put the Rega in another room or closet?GIK is very helpful and makes good products, but reading the Master Handbook (cited here several times) will help you understand a lot better.DIY plans can be had for the cost of a Google search...Buy... | |
| Speaker cable length with monoblock amps? The idea that speaker cables have to be a certain minimum length strikes me as an audiophile myth too - it likely arises because people who do not understand physics have confused cables with extremely high freq. waveguides used in microwave, rada... |