randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| Directionality of wire there is a lot of mis-direction in this thread | |
| Why do Asian looks for old Wadia CDP at high price? maybe it's nostalgia for grandpa's stereo setup | |
| Long distance between preamp and power amp yes, my better suggestion is to sell the amp and get one with _true_ balanced inputsmonoblocks should be even betteryou can certainly get away with a long RCA run - I did it as a student with Advent speakers and Dynaco gear, but if you want to max... | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? no need to recall a sound quality for days or weekssimple to test with 2 identical units - one can be 'burned in' and the other nothave a friend swap them a few times and don't peek | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? Electronics and speakers (cone type) do in the sense of getting maximum SQ. They do not _need_ it to work and sound "ok."It may help to distinguish daily warm up from initial 'burn in'.... | |
| Long distance between preamp and power amp my suggestion is to sell the amp and get one with balanced inputs | |
| Does it get any better? It gets better up until you spend $120,000 on the speakers | |
| What's the weak link in my system? OP, a good example of a turntable to consider would be Rega or VPIbut if the room is taken care of as per the post above, I’d rip the CDs onto a mac mini or purpose designed storage system and get a good DAC, while paying attention to galvanic iso... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil roll your own roller balls | |
| Specific Pre-Amp advice darkstar crashespouring its light into ashesnow sub money for light and reel2reel+LPcleaner+marriage for ashes... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil yes, winter & carpet = static | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... I find fascinating the cognitive dissonance that exists between the skeptical mind in regard to cables and the confirmation bias results which can be obtained from the typical "reviewers" | |
| Newb to DAC question. Benefit of a DAC for only CD listening or an Oppo 205 - send it back if it doesn't sound better...another avenue to explore is some isolation devices for the USB interface | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers the Sonus Faber Aida's look real nice... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil actually any problems will be from static electricityI defy anyone to tell the difference in a valid test during the summer - and yes, speaker cables on carpet. |