randy-11
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| Speaker cable/Power cord/Interconnect Interference some space is good - cross cables at 90 degreesa few feet is not a problem (unless your components are incredibly poorly designed)do you hear any hum?Beware of shills trying to sell you crazy things... I bet they will start posting soon | |
| My Home Speakers, My Car, and Me...The Ballad of What's Going Wrong? room correction software is not omnipotent - I'd buy a $100 calibrated measurement mic and run some free software to testor... maybe the experience of just sitting in a smallish, bare room w/ or w/o music is the issueand.. you can always dose up w... | |
| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? if you weren't crazy you wouldn't be hereDo this: buy the best Oppo (~$1200) which has a return privilege, and test it vs. any high end used player you are thinking aboutDACs have advanced greatly in recent years so old may not be so greator... ri... | |
| Zu def 4 are they the best speaker made? Lots of xlnt speakers less than $16k, much less over thatI agree, it sounds like an ad from a paid fan boy | |
| What integrated can replace over -bright exposure 3010? then try a CreekLots of integrated now days - many are spendy - post a budget if your amp does not improve | |
| Hegel vs Rogue Audio Alchemy DDP-1 Preamp/DAC ??? | |
| Hegel vs Rogue a different DAC thread would be bestyou are just going to have to do extensive amp listening comparisons at that level | |
| McCormack DNA 500 loud hum could be the electrolytic caps - see if he mentions that | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? One thing that has changed is knowledge about the effects of noise injection. Some cables in some places will affect that more than others, tho the real solution is to use better isolation techniques.The effects of speaker cables on complex loads... | |
| Hegel vs Rogue used Yggy for Redbook - but what source material?? | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? One word... Cornpression :/ | |
| Correct way to attach speaker wires... Wait, what!!! food vinegar or any vinegar WILL work - use a white vinegar to avoid getting thyme or tarragon your wires* - the lower acidity vinegars will simply take longer to alter Cu-oxide back to Cudo they not teach chemistry in high school these days??if y... | |
| Correct way to attach speaker wires... Wait, what!!! vinegar works - but why not just protect the connection so you don't have to clean it??this is really a very simple thing - not that the crazed anti-vaxers won't try to post lots of silly | |
| Jazz for aficionados I walked out of the book store with a number of books, and a friend of mine peeped in the bag: "old Shakespeare, Dickens, and D H Lawrence, you still into them?" That was the question he asked 20 years ago. It's for certain I thought I would be ou... | |
| Correct way to attach speaker wires... Wait, what!!! the connection just needs to flow an adequate current to not create a significant resistancethe speaker is like an electric motor and needs some current to move the cone, ribbon, or panel back and forththere are conductive liquid polymers you can ... |