randy-11
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| Amp/Preamp or AVR for home stereo and entertainment besides Parasound you might look at Marantz recievers | |
| Anyone Using Crystals? Use a Particle Accelerator ion gun to shoot down any crystals near your speakers. | |
| What are the top 3 USB cables being used today in reference systems? There is no such cable. What you really want is to ensure galvanic isolation (well known), and possibly regenerate the bit stream (not proven).Or switch to optical ethernet. | |
| CD players = dead? I have a fair number of HDCD discs and there are few HDCD DACs, so I'd like to be able to listen to them once in a while with the HDCD in place.But I listen to computer audio several hours a day (98.63% ripped CDs; a few downloads) and only spin a... | |
| Best / Cheapest desktop micro-amp? best? likely a First Watt | |
| Theoretical cable question except for "Henries"not SI | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? arh - the 3.7i's are worth the upgradeAND the crossover is now very good - no biamping needed (or allowed) | |
| Theoretical cable question Kimber gives you the inductance per unit length on their cables, and is a long-time manf. with a good track record.I have never seen any basis for the claims on silver cable.You will have to try a number of cables to find one you prefer, hence the... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? I meant to get the source music.Not sure why you are burning CDs?BTW, I use iTunes and rip to Apple Lossless. For CDs with HDCD on them I can still use my Cal Audio Player. | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Biamping offers significant SQ improvements at the cost of more amps - usually the transformer is a big cost, beyond the engineering and QC.Some speaker manfs. do not want you messing up their carefully designed cross-overs; others may worry you w... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? CD cost is a problem? I just buy used CDs. When I find something I think will benefit musically and acoustically from better recording or mastering techniques, I hunt up better recorded or mastered CDs.I don't like to rent when I can own. | |
| Easy free tweak -- dealing with RFI/EMI -- try it and see? Yes, in a digital chain airborne EFI can be a problem - even routers hunting periodically can cause kvetchng problems.OP needs to do some blind testing as noted above | |
| Easy free tweak -- dealing with RFI/EMI -- try it and see? maybe you are letting out Maxwell's Demon | |
| Easy free tweak -- dealing with RFI/EMI -- try it and see? wrong folkfreak - that is not how it worksthere is a simple explanation in the wiki - pls read it | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? recording & mastering is usually done in PCM, not DSDreally makes you wonder if DSD is really giving you better SQ... |