rols
Responses from rols
| What is your experience with amp power? Two experiences from me, the last one I can not explain. Comments welcome. Frst & briefly: Amphion Argon 3 standmounts driven by a peachtree amp. I swapped the amp for a Krell amp of the same power. Result: tonnes of bass suddenly appears. I ... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? I read the article, thanks for link. I had noticed that all of my friends musical tastes seem to have got stuck in the era of their youth. My dad only had 5 records, all by the Beatles, and he only really liked 3 of those. I would like to ... | |
| Class D Integrated Amplifier Recommendations. I am very happy with my NAD C298 pair of amps. I have them set to be monoblocks. Fast, clean, stunning stereo, lifelike voices, and exciting bass. They replaced a 40Kg Roksan class AB power amp of similar cost. | |
| DAC Merry Go 'Round- why I stopped at Weiss Thank you for the post. Here in the EU the Weiss DACs have a very good reputation. Also Twittering Machines (who I have some respect for) like them. I too have come to rest. Just found something that was simple and just works. I agree that having... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? I ended up treating myself to a pretty high quality preamp: a Mola Mola Makua. It did sound better. I like the configurability of it, and that it had an integrated (and really excellent) phono stage. | |
| Emm Labs DV2 versus Tambaqui I have a Terminator and a Tambaqui. Both are state of the art. Both sound lifelike and real, not digital. Both are good, sensible, choices. If you held a gun to my head I would say that the Tambaqui is better, there is just something about its b... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? Doesn’t Roon insist on a wired connection between the box that it is running on and the endpoint? But you can use wifi to control Roon. I think. I used to use TP link extenders, but it all was a bit flakey. Some drops. And they used to die at re... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? Thank you all for the super interesting responses, just what I was hoping for.I liked the point that a perfect preamp would do nothing to the sound, but what would it cost? Maybe my 1K preamp is far from what it could be. A general theme appeared ... | |
| Removing a ZERO from the price of amps My big beefy 50Lb Roksan power amp died (120W a channel, about 9k new with its preamp). I had bought it second hand, and did not have car type money for a replacement. I was keen not to downgrade myself. I plucked up the courage and went class D. ... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? Whoa, brave question, but I am glad you raised it.I used to work in the Pharma industry and know that the placebo effect can have a big effect on what you perceive. I mean, people have been operated on without anaesthetic and not felt pain thanks... | |
| What’s the relationship between gain (dB) and power (watts)? I am interested in this because I have just upgraded from one power amp to two monoblocks - the gain has not changed but the available power has gone from 200W per channel to 600W...... and yes, the monoblocks are no louder than the stereo unit. H... | |
| Streamer's without built in DAC options? I have used a pro-ject stream box s2 ultra for a few years, and it works very well, and sounds a bit nicer than feeding my DAC direct from a Roon NUC. | |
| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges HiYears ago I had this demonstrated to me. A dealer played a Rega based system with a nice cartridge vs a Linn with a cheapo cartridge. The Linn sounded much better - much to my annoyance as I do not like Linn record players. I think of cartridges... | |
| Streaming for beginner My question: assume my goal is to stream for convenience, simplicity, and achieve audio quality that equals or surpasses that of redbook cd’s. I am not looking to purchase music or download it for storage. What am I missing? I also have a dedicate... | |
| Poor value vs snake oil... rols, his definition of snake oil is an audio product that makes no improvement in either measurement or sound quality. Mjostyn: I agree with everything you say, and yes, Mr Darko did suggest that snake oil could be defined as a product that offer... |