randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| Isolation Transformers: my experience and concerns yeh, makes my head hurtLuckily, I know the speakers and the room matter a lot more...anyway, my tentative summary is:medical transformers cost too muchuse a Topaz, and buy it used | |
| Isolation Transformers: my experience and concerns Lots of technical expertise from posters here:https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/29662-discussion-of-ac-mains-isolation-transformers-... | |
| Disaster if the room is large enough it could maybe be rebuilt with a false front wall - like a recording studio to eliminate baffle effectsyou can certainly do some things to deaden the walls too | |
| Is remastered mainly just less jitter? "Dark Side of the Moon ... there is one VERY famous remaster that totally kills it dynamically and sound effects-wise"is that the one Barry Diament did? | |
| Wife trouble You already have the speakers so tell her that they won't work with her console. Immediately follow that with "of course, I will sell the speakers so you can get the console honey... the speakers we will have to buy instead will be <insert meg... | |
| Best way to Audition amplifier? you can buy many xlnt amps with a 14 or 30 day trial periodI suggest you try the Benchmark amp (see their web site), as well as the new PS Audio (in mid-April) and maybe Audio Alchemy, nad Masters and others at mail order dealers like Music Direct... | |
| Is remastered mainly just less jitter? OTOH, the really early masters for CD are poor - if one were to avoid listening before buying maybe the 1990s would be the safest bet.Re-mastering can use newer, better technologies; can remove some artefacts from say wow & flutter, can degrad... | |
| Selling vintage components Sell to an individual - you get more and he pays lessJust describe it in detail, including the service history | |
| Source Mod or Preamp? my choice has been to get a used ARC pre-ampDACs evolve at a rapid rate but a good pre-amp will last years before a really significant upgrade in SQ comes along, so will be very cost effective to do the DAC every couple or few yearsthere is a new ... | |
| Too Much Power? "people being depressed by the sound" of their audio system is a first world problem | |
| How many shipments can audio equipment survive? an iPhone has an accelerometer in it...so, you could find an app that records it and then ship the iPhone in a box to find out what is likely to happen in what type of boxin fact, I think this has been done to test wine shipping problems | |
| Fat, tight Jazz: Trombone Shorty here he is playing with a couple of Neville kids and some others:https://youtu.be/lp_tdt61EVA?list=PLEioDpMxrIq5_kL0ruEd0dYqDqMTQNo1A | |
| Best furniture to act as bass trap Why do you think here's some element of more efficient bass absorption when you place a flexible reflective material in front of a highly absorptive material??I agree with shadornemeasure first of courseDSP may be in your future... | |
| Best furniture to act as bass trap I think the above poster is thinking of a Tuned Membrane Bass Trap. This is, of course, tuned. The couch is not. | |
| Best Cable Match for: Naim Nait 5i + Naim CD3.5 + Vandersteen 2C's? any balanced interconnect will be less SQ risky than an unbalance (assuming the components can accept them)otherwise forget abou interconnectsDick V. wants you to bi-wire his speakers and you can read about it on various web sites, maybe youtube t... |