rshank64
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| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? @br3098 +1 Yes, speakers matter the most! | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @pindac Thanks for the detailed description of your experience and surroundings where this demo took place. That is indeed a very impressive performance from a 3W valve amp. It is very encourging to know that there are new valve designs in devel... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @pindac My most recent experience of a Valve Amp design producing 3 Watts Output, has been a revelation. 3 Watts of valve amplification may be sufficient to drive some very efficient speakers in a small room in nearfield listening mode. It ... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? If you want to know accurately and in realtime how much power your amp is consuming then look into purchasing Emporia Smart Plug with energy monitor (on Amazon). The Emporia Smart Plug allows you to monitor the energy use realtime and control mo... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery @pickindoug +1 pickindoug I wonder whether a device, i.e. a DAC, preamp, or other low draw gear) with a well regulated power supply would benefit, as the power supply itself levels the variations, whether... | |
| Speaker Selection Strategies For Atmos Music secretguy +1 Don't understand why jeffrey125 would make a comment like that. It was totally unnecessary! OP and others have posted very useful info on this thread, specially for anyone new to Atmos setup f... | |
| Speaker Selection Strategies For Atmos Music @kota1 Thanks for your thread. I found your posts very useful. Atmos music is now very big on streaming platforms and getting bigger. I really enjoy Atmos music streaming as well as on blu rays. Atmos simply adds significantly to the enjoyment ... | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? @johnson0134 Just a follow up! Did you eventually add the REL dual subs to your system. If yes, then how was your first-hand experience of adding the REL subwoofers to your system and how it changed the sound for you and any recommendations! ... | |
| Which has a greater effect on music,int.amp or CD? Speakers have the greatest effect on any system! followed by a matching amplifier. | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? Everything is important but first upgrading the weakest link in your system will have the most influence! | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? The point is that with poor speakers your high end source may still sound poor and you won't hear the full benefit of your source. However with high end speakers which match your room you will hear the best your source can produce, good or not so ... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Speakers first. Buy the best speaker you can afford to match the room. Buy source with the remaining budget. This will give you the best sound from whatever your source may be. Then go on to upgrade the source and other components to match the s... | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo May I suggest the following: Artist; Mary Fahl - On the Run Album: From the dark side of the moon Specially going fron track2 to track3: On The Run At the beginning of the track her voice swirls round in circle overhead - you are literally forced... | |
| I Cried Today Thanks for sharing your story! | |
| Burn in vs perception @curiousjim Has anyone bought two power cords and left one in the box and used the other one for a few months? Then pulled out the unused pc and done a A/B test? curiousjim Yes, I have done this exact power cable A/B test to test the... |