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| Phono interconnects acting as antenna, adding noise to system Try shielded cables for your phono connections. That's what I use and they are dead quiet | |
| What to do with audio Magazines I have subscribed to many of these for many years in print form and now I get them digitally on my iPad Pro. You can save huge on some of these like Hi-Fi+ when you subscribe digitally over print.For many years before switching to digital versions... | |
| Need advice on what to look for in a turntable - budget $6K to $10K Hanss T-60 if you can find a good deal or the Hanss T-30. I have had my T-60 for 6 years now with no problems, sounds great, capable of 2 tonearms. You better have a good back and a buddy to help you since the platter is 44 lbs and the table is cl... | |
| storage options for MacBook Air The original question was to store music on an external drive or on internal drive. For 1, in time your ssd will be too small to hold all of your music. The 2nd issue is that hard disks are noisy to have in your audio room.options? Plenty.1) use a... | |
| EQ with JRiver/Pure Music vs Aurender/Dedicated servers I had a Mac mini with either pure music/amarra/pure music/and then audirvana and it sounded very good. I then did some auditioning of music servers like aurender and auralic and ended up with the auralic aries music server. The Aries sounds so muc... | |
| Kronos vs TW Acoustic Hanss T-60. Many benefits like multiple motors and can support multiple tonearms to name a couple. If you read 3 of the absolute sound reviews of the 'cost no object' best sounding rooms at the 2016 Newport Audio show, they picked the Lotus Group... | |
| Revel salon 2 vs vandersteen 5a carbons Revel by a large margin. I would actually take the Revel's over the vandersteen 7's, that's how good I think the revel's are. You might need bigger more powerful amps for the revel's, not sure. I just got back from RMAF and listened to the salon ... | |
| Best integrated up to $6000 Hegel H300 or H360. | |
| Best integrated up to $6000 Hegel H300 or H360. | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup Dctom, this doesn't make sense. An ssd by itself will not improve the sound, all it will do is read the music faster. Most good software will read the music into ram and play the song from ram, not from a hdd/ssd. If you went with Linux instead of... | |
| Music Server I have used a Mac mini for years as a music server running software like pure music and audirvana. Using the latest audirvana software and getting rid of iTunes was a big step in the right direction but the interface was crude. When I started eval... | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup Internal or external are the same in regards to noise in your audio room. You don't want any spinning disk in the same room you listen to music in. Buy either a NAS drive or mount the drive on another computer in another part of your home.1 thing ... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! I installed a vpi jmw arm on an expensive Hanns TT with the SoundSmith Zephyr mkII cartridge and the cartridge and arm are a very good match. | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup I had a really nice setup using my Mac mini with 16G of ram and using a 5TB NAS 100' away for my disk so you would not get any noise from the HDD's. I have used a few different programs to play my ripped music and I liked the sound of Audirvana 2.... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Robin Trower rocks! Listening to some Joe Bonamassa tonight |