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| Anyone with tinnitus or hearing loss who is into "high-end" audio? My tinnitus is generally a low buzz that I can tune out most of the time. But it can be severely aggregated by loud noises, including the volume of my stereo. After a lot of trial and error I've found that if I keep the volume below around 80dB p... | |
| can someone answer me this..... audioconnection +1I have an old CJ Classic pre, and always forget to invert phase when shifting it around. I've even written "Invert Phase you Idiot" on a label on the back :-)Hopefully your problem is as simple as that. I have also played with th... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Comparing a quality horn speaker with the PA horns mounted on the poles around a sports field isn't really apples with apples me thinks.Yes, some horns distort and some box speakers sound like, well, boxes.There's no mystery. Good designers wheth... | |
| Shocked removed spikes, used blue tack, what other non spike footer I have carpet and underlay over a timber floor and for many years had my speakers on quite large spikes to cut through to the timber. I though it sounded ok but when I bought new speakers last year the speaker manufacturer recommended I decouple t... | |
| Impressing friends with your rig @elizabeth - I have avantgarde's and exactly the same reaction - "they must play loud". So I always start with something soft :-)@tpreaves - I've also built a stereo for my tastes and needs - I find that I need music in my life. But I love sharin... | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) Every so often I put away my shop bought things, and pull out my home-made Dallas II rear-loaded horns. Couple hundred bucks of construction ply, glue, wire, and mahogany stain, and the best Fostex 8” drivers I could afford. Yeh, I eventually miss... | |
| Any good reasons to use transistor phono stage and line level preamp instead of tube ? I have solid state (Whest PS30RDT) and valve (inbuilt Atmasphere MP-3) phono stages.The Whest is dead quiet, very smooth, detailed, has a huge soundstage, and layers like crazy. It does big stuff incredibly well, and is my go to for rock, electron... | |
| 12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A I have psvanne 12ax7 and 12au7 in my phono and pre, and their 6sn7 in my power. they all share a similar lineage: detailed, crystal clear highs, tight bass, neutral, quiet, and reliable. I agree with auxinput, not a warm tube so system matching, ... | |
| What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital? I"ve got half a dozen albums that are worse than the equivalent CD’s. The albums were terrible pressings done in the 80s and early 90s on paper thin vinyl with tracks crammed on, back when the promise of CD’s meant some only paid lip service to qu... | |
| Krell Owners: Is XLR really superior to RCA? I’ve recently bought a new system and gone from all RCA (Kimber Select) to differentially balanced phono, pre and power. I really like balanced for all the reasons above, but in my set up it’s the clarity that stands out.Also I’d read that the qua... | |
| Line Magnetic quality Speaking of great Chinese gear, I've tried heaps of valves in my Line Magnetics, JJ's, EMs, Shuguangs, Tung-sols, Sovteks, JAN, Mullard, SED's, Golden Lion. Some I hated, some I liked a lot. But the ones that I've been most impressed by for both s... | |
| Line Magnetic quality I have line magnetic 300b set mono blocks and a matching line magnetic pre from their old classic line, as my second system. It’s a Western Electric replica system with a very unusual layout (compared to modern valve systems), but it’s beautiful s... | |
| Speakers for.....every type of music? Hey Vista For me getting speakers that did everything came down to 1. system matching for mid range and treble, and 2. speakers that could deliver real bass.Starting in the 1990’s I had worked my way through Mourdant Short, Image, and Monitor Aud... | |
| A song murdered by someone. How about a whole album. My vote goes to Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees re-imagining of Sgt. Pepper’s in 1978 for the musical film of the same name. The album was so bad it’s impossible to pick a worst of.. The movie intro says it all.“This musi... |