rotarius
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| Cable manufacturers? Ah yes, teleportation. The best thing invented since the Voodoo doll. | |
| Cable manufacturers? Whoa! What? Hey, Did I just detect a subtle bashing of the Clever Little Clock and Brilliant Pebbles? Subtle bashing? No, I was pretty direct. Of all the snake-oil peddlers on this site, you rank #1. Congrats! | |
| Cable manufacturers? Mr. Teo, do you have a technical paper you could point me to about this whole atomic/molecular-level liquid conductor? I mean a real peer reviewed and published scientific paper. I have an advanced Engineering degree, I can handle it:) I always ... | |
| Suggestions on Better Server Setup than Mac Mini Consider an RPI3 with a Digi hat to read the data from a NAS or USB hdd. I assure you, it will sound better than a Mac Mini or USB out from a PC to your dac. Use Rune, Moode or equivalent as software. This is all very cheap but fantastic sound ... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy @hifiman5 The DBS system does sound interesting and I have not used it. Along with capacitance, I like to focus on the connector quality, materials & conductivity. That seems to make a big difference in SQ. | |
| Cable manufacturers? Zavato, you are correct, most have to buy the wire, then make the conductor with some wire geometry based on pseudo science, give the geometry some exotic name, terminate with off-the-shelf plugs, dress them up, mark them up 1000% and viola - you ... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy For interconnects when you need clarity without harshness - Mogami wire 2549, 2534, 2528, etc. with neutrik RCA plugs or better. Needs 10-15 hours of burn-in for the bass to fill in properly. Lot of outfits custom make these and they are cheap! ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system I really don't want to rain on anyone's parade but like every speaker I have tried, the LFT-8B have a few flaws and they can be quite intrusive. I had them paired to my Belles 150a amp. The bass from the woofer was never quite right in my room. ... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms If the azimuth cannot be fixed by the limited headshell adjustment, you really need to return the cart you bought, you have a cartridge problem not a tonearm problem. | |
| Need advice about upgrading speakers ( it might be the last one i own). Rock is your genre of choice so you need speakers with oomph. I would take the Focals and PSB T2 off the list in that case. You really should look at used JBL synthesis array 1000 or s3900 or whatever you can afford. They do come up for sale on ... | |
| Monitor Audio Silver 8 - Power Handling jdekehoe, the A21 is overkill because of the required wattage. You keep bringing up resolution and detail, sonic differences in good quality SS amps are far less than differences in preamps and sources. There is a good chance you may not hear an... | |
| Monitor Audio Silver 8 - Power Handling @jdekehoe, The Parasound A21 will be overkill, A23 will work just fine and you can buy a tube preamp with the money left over. You can also look for a used Belles, Bryston or B&K power amp, good stuff. For preamps, I am partial to 6sn7 based... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? Years ago, I brought home 3" thick granite surface plates. I placed my speakers directly on them without spikes. Floor was concrete slab. Sounded great so I would not say that spikes are always needed. | |
| Looking for input: Best material for mid range cone As others have noted, you will find reference level speakers with drivers made from metal, ceramic composites, kevlar, hemp and what not. It's all good! You will have to step up from the entry level stuff to enjoy the better driver designs out t... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms Sorry to disappoint you guys but properties like stiffness depend greatly on type of material, mechanical properties of the material, length to diameter ratio, you can't just say J shape better than straight pipe or vice versa. Same goes for reso... |