realthing
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| Ripping CD's to hard drive It requires a decent machine (cheap if refurbished), foobar2000 (free), and the drive to learn how to use it (also free). That’s it. Then you can rip away into any format, bit depth or sample rate you want. ps don't rip to an HD; use a fast SSD, ... | |
| Bob Carver tube amps I have nothing to offer on Carver tube products, but I do have an old M-200t poweramp whose duty has been just to run the midrange on the analog setup in my living room. It’s been hooked directly to a pair of Altec 511 horns w/Peavey drivers for t... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? Unless you have access to exotic conductors, the 'amount of metal' (i.e. gauge) of the cable/wire is the best measure. That having been said, if decent gauge lamp cord isn't good enough for you, paralleling 2 or 3 strands ought to do the trick. Th... | |
| Getting good sound quality below 200Hz My system is multiamped and crossed over with boxcar digital filters. By happy coincidence it crosses from bass to mid at 190hz, and I can shut off the mid/high power amps and just listen to what’s below 190hz, which I do on occasion to be sure ch... | |
| Preamp help please! ******************* btw, do you have a simple tube tester? "you'll be happy for the rest of your life if you make an ugly tester your wife". name that song! ******************** "Get an Ugly Tester to Marry You." ps I have 2 tube testers. Fo... | |
| 2nd systems- who’s got one? I have a living room system I built for my living room back in the 80s; built-in speakers flanking the fireplace at one end of a long narrow room that spans the front of the house (one reason I was pleased with the house) consisting of 2 Altec 15"... | |
| Electric cars will ruin late night listening? Likelier they'll ruin your ability to drive cross country. If they truly become a forced monopoly, demand will 'fuel' the price of electricity no matter what the source. Audio will survive. | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality It's unlikely that decent power cables or speaker wires are going to experience transmission line problems. | |
| What is Tight Bass? Somewhat anachronistic term for well damped, not ringy or boomy etc. Fairly intuitive. Nothing more than that. The bass player for Blood, Sweat & Tears described the Altec 421a as ’tight’ in an ad on the back cover of Guitar Player in 1969, e.... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? I had a tube amp in the late 60s/early 70s (HH Scott 222c, still have one), a Sony TA-3200F (first 'super amp', still have it) and multiple others. Now I find myself using a number of TPA-3118 based class 'T' amps (D with a few mods as you know) s... | |
| What does clipping sound like? Clipping occurs anywhere, as another poster or two commented. Even if it's all digital and all the processor 'boxes' are dsps, you can clip. If you turn things down one at a time and (besides making things quieter) you notice a huge improvement in... | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... Still hard for me to believe anyone thinks wire direction makes a difference, much less an audible one. Sounds like audio gaslighting. If you can prove it somehow, get new wire. Nobody wants wire acting as a semiconductor. Makes carrying AC rather... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? Depends on where the high sample rates occur in my experience. I run all my audio through computers and find that upsampling to very high rates for the processing phase (equalizer, crossover, expander etc.) produces much cleaner results, even thou... | |
| Don't waste money on ultrasonic RCMs Those of us who bought LPs in the 60s knew (or found out) that even if you only use isopropyl to clean your stylus with an artist's brush you wait 15 minutes (and blow on the stylus a lot) before playing anything. Otherwise, sounds great once. Aft... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Count me in the 'very little difference' camp, if there is one in what seems a fairly binary issue. What's certain to me is that the difference between 14awg lamp cord and $10k cables isn't proportional to the price difference.I wonder what blind ... |