randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| Dac options with Chromecast Audio SUB $500 add iFi to your list | |
| Looking to upgrade my preamp, suggestions? convenience counts | |
| Tube Watts Vs. Soild-State Watts? a Watt is a Watt the world aroundyou will be concerned with how the Volts and Amps balance out to make a Wattwatt speakers do you have?the issue is current delivery into a complex impedance (good term to google....) | |
| Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS) Platforms mdf will absorb some vibrationsbest thing is to put the turntable (and pre-pre amp) in another room behind your preamp & ampthe maple thing is not supported with any sort of scientific studies... | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? http://www.stereophile.com/content/use-balanced-ac-power-home-1 | |
| Wireless speakers for a second room? dunno of any devices like that but they could easily existcan we convince you to rip your CDs to a computer or tablet or ... something? | |
| Telefunken red tip put a magnifier on it and see if the red tip is paint or inside the glassthe stickers were used to mark Telefunky tubes as of select quality - red tips if real and never stickered could mean a lot of things...OTOH, has tube manf. technology improv... | |
| Any opinion or feedback on the NAIM UnitiServe or UnitiCore? iTunes on a mac has about as much ease and convenience as you can get- set it up to auto eject when done; I use Apple LosslessI ripped 1,500 CDs that wayyou will have a bit perfect set of digital files with very good search, filtering, and retriev... | |
| Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS) Platforms "the sound literally died" means what, exactly? | |
| Forget the endless PC arguments, what about all our transformer equipment? I use iTunes with lossless files - not sure where you're headed with thattransformers are often used to isolate noise from switching power supplies and there is a very long thread on computeraudiophile.com about thatthe size of the "tiny power wir... | |
| Wireless speakers for a second room? WiFi works - I use iTunes on a mini with an Apple TV 3 (4 does not have the same outputs) into a DACthis also provides galvanic isolation | |
| Any opinion or feedback on the NAIM UnitiServe or UnitiCore? why not just rip them onto a PC or mac and put the $$ into a better DAC?or better speakers, room treatments.... | |
| Telefunken red tip does the body of the tube have a rectangular 'spot' anywhere on it?something that looks like there may have been a cloth sticker on it at some time?... there are lots of rumors about the red tip tubes; dunno if any of them are true... medical usea... | |
| SS preamp with tube amp the thing about the power amp is that it must interface with and control the speaker, besides delivering adequate current, etc. so it never clipsother than that I think atmasphere put it wellfor the record, I have a tube pre-amp - the ARC LS25 MkI... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I'd agree if it was a dbl blind test with adequate sample size to be statistically significant.I've never seen any for interconnects, and bet I never will.Speaker cables can change the sound of speakers with odd impedances. |