randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable people feel the need to buy expensive cables because they lack the technical knowledge to distinguish snake oil sales pitches from real engineeringmystics chants of "everything matters" and "skin effect" are helpful to delude these poor peopleyou ... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic "You can totally rely on one thing ... none of the genius shills in this and the fuse threads will have the testicular fortitude to step forward and get an advanced science or engineering degree. Their fluffy basket-weaving degrees are more than ... | |
| Using Oppo 205 instead of per amp processor at a certain level of SQ, you will want to look into how the volume control for the variable outputs is implemented- some digital volume controls can reduce bit depthdunno re the Oppo - I run my 205 thru an ARC 'euphonicizer' pre-amp | |
| Vandie .7 vs Maggie .7 bottomline - they are both xlntIn the 1990s I tested Vandie 2c I owned vs. maggie 1.5's I'd just bought - spent a month - listened every night - no TV - varied source materialFinally, I decided to sell the Vandies but it was a difficult decision.O... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Quoted for emphasis:Ha! Just when we thought shysters had milked naive audiophiles of all but their loose change, up comes even better "contact enhancement." I'll now sign off and continue to chuckle. | |
| Filling speaker stands: sand, lead, steel, rice. Full, half, etc? concrete blocks will be fine to elevate your speakers and will give your living room that "grad. student" aestheticpaint them with a brush not spray paint to prevent chips & dust | |
| Are my " diamond " tweeters really diamond why not check by using some zircon-encrusted tweezers to pull a chip off? | |
| Da Benz? the el cheapo Ortofon Red is quite good, so maybe one of their more expensive cartridges would be worthy of audition | |
| Filling speaker stands: sand, lead, steel, rice. Full, half, etc? the idea is to make the stands as heavy as possible so that speaker cabinet movement (caused by the bass reflecting off the cabinet walls) does not modulate the soundsand will leave less of an air space than lead shot (so the stands will be heavie... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile run REWbetter yet, give it to her along with a USB measurement mic | |
| Zerostat: Old is Gold? huh - maybe I should sell mine | |
| Advice Needed the only thing might be if the Wadia's gain was digital and cut into the bit depthI doubt that Wadia would do that tho (common in cheaper units) | |
| Should I PURCHASE AN EXTERNAL DAC Oppo 205 uses twin ESS 9038 chips (the top DAC chip currently), tho I do not know how they are implemented - I have onewhy not try one and then return it if you don’t like it?(go thru your music collection first to find the best tests)you may not ... | |
| Looking For A Change VidarBenchmark AH2Bnew W4S NexGenyou can try out the 1st two and return | |
| Total newbie question here about completing a system I would skip the equalizer. At some point, he may want to do that in the digital arena, but first explore room treatments.What model Yamaha? Lots of $$ can be spent on analog turntables, etc. which can produce xlnt digital sound instead, so be s... |