randy-11
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| Odor from Philips CD80 take the housing off and smell the caps | |
| High Quality Universal Player?? mine? I just replaced my pre-amp with an ARC LS-25 MkII.I'd like to replace my Maggie 1.5 QE speakers with the 3.7i but the local dealer doesn't allow in home listening, so that is the big holdup. I am waiting for Oppo to release their new playe... | |
| MQA ? Pono? What's better than the CD? the difficult issue is that most higher bit rate or bit depth releases have (or may have) used different masterings than an original CD releaseso, you really never know if you are listening to the re-mastering or the putative better than CD stream... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm it doesn't really alter the mass of the tonearm that much because of the pivot | |
| WHAT'S UP WITH MARANTZ? "paint it black" | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? you could do a lot with just 3 things:pianofemale vocalssnare drums | |
| MQA ? Pono? What's better than the CD? on other forums, many are raving about MQA and DRM...MQA is a std. that meridian meets, and is something of a "spin-off" from meridian, or bob Stuart's new project, etc.it is designed to go from end to end - from the source on the masters to the l... | |
| Preamp popping! maybe some caps are going bador relays | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? global or local feedback?I suspect impedance effects are the most likely cause of amp-speaker "interactions"and electrostatics are the most difficult - Magtech designed their amps to drive them | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? anybody can build their own gearanybody can read a textbook on cognitive psychology too (well, ok not everybody...)I agree it would be hard to measure a change - tho one could arrange a blind listening test to show an effect w/o knowing any mechan... | |
| 12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair?? connect some lamp wire and get friends to help you do a blind listening testthen, sell them (greater fool theory)bluejeans cable IIRC, will let you try different cables and return (tho it is a tiime consuming way to re-invent the tone control) | |
| Magnepan mmg vs .7 . Real world experience opinions requested http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magnepan-7-loudspeaker/ | |
| For cassette enthusiasts - How to color cassettes NEVER use white after Easter! | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? what was the insult darkmtter?No one can deny that Nelson Pass is an expert, and the experiments prove him right.Or are you a science denier?Authority is not as good as an on point experiment but a LOT better than an ill informed opinion? If you ... | |
| Amplifier for the magnepan 3.7i Maggies are much easier to drive than electrostatics, as the impedance is rel. invariant across the freq. range. They do require an amp that can handle 4 ohm speakers and their efficiency is about 87 or so (rel. low).I have heard the $4,000 rouge ... |