rixthetrick
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| These seem a bit pricey $$$ 30hz bookshelf? not likely Kenjit, my bookshelf speakers measure flat from below 30Hz up to 20kHz (in room).Using a Peerless HDS 6.5" in a ported box for the midbass. | |
| So I bought a Pro-ject Pre Box RS... (Valve suggestions?) From memory it's just a standard female mini XLR connector, I think I got mine from Ebay. I put a multimeter on the original power supply (it's DC, so polarity was easy to check) and soldered to two pins of the three with the same polarity.I have ... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure @david_ten I heard a Grandinote pre DAC /amplifier combo at the workshop and I was thoroughly impressed. One of the best set of front end electronics I have heard. Mind you, I've heard the Terminator DAC in a shootout - it's a good bit of gear too. | |
| Silly question, but I’ll ask it anyway. @last_lemming ..." I made some interconnects with Duelund wire."So how did they work out for you? | |
| Once Were Brothers in theaters Friday, February 28th Sorry, but they certainly weren't anything close to impacting the World stage of music like the Beetles. In fact, until today I'd never heard of them. The Doors were certainly much bigger overseas, The beach boys were as well, in the same era. | |
| Audio Furniture has its own sound! Recently I managed to get a solid piece of white marble, about an inch thick from a place that makes kitchen benches etc. They told me they often have offcuts and cutouts from the materials they use. It was very inexpensive to have them cut it to ... | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Some years ago (maybe someone can help with the brand?) while I was working at a HiFi factory, we had tested AudioXsell audiophile grade CD-Rwhich not only sounded better than any other discs we’d heard (including HDCD and SACD) but they also play... | |
| Moving speakers from downstairs to upstairs, degrading ? Nasaman, I agree with simonmoon. I would suggest using something of as much mass under a isolation system as you can. The reason I say this is because the inertia in the mass under the loaded isolation system you may choose to employ, will help mi... | |
| Is there a such too much power for speakers? +1 @cakyol +1 @mijostyn I found a good video on youtube titled," What is Clipping?? Understanding Amplifier Clipping & Clipped Signals".Though this is pertaining to car audio, the video showing sinusoidal wave forms on an oscilloscope, and ... | |
| Slot, tray, or top load? Like Soix said, ripping the music to files is the way forward, along with music files that are downloaded. | |
| Repairing a Curious USB 3.0 cable Sorry I found this too late. I used to work for Mike Lenehan in Ashmore, QLD making Curious USB cables and Lenehan Audio RibbonFlex cables.Weird that the package smelled of smoke, nobody there were smokers??!Aussie Rick in Texas | |
| Resistors From a loudspeaker manufacturer I trust, after testing have moved from Duelund cast resistors to Path Audio resistors in his high end designs. | |
| Wide baffle speakers are better than narrow erik_squires, opinions vary.The very best loudspeker I have heard used a seas exotic driver with the tweeter baffle removed and replaced by an ovalized 4mm solid copper baffle (due to the Young’s Modulus of copper). Which was designed to work in a... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? http://www.madscientist-audio.com | |
| What is wrong with audiophiles? ejr1953,yeah guilty as charged. I have when occasion permitted frequented different hi-fi stores, investigated equipment and such to see what was available, perhaps that I hadn’t been aware of; listened to, though purchased nothing. I have thousan... |