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| Can a rogue audio Cronus be used just as a preamp? Rogue Audio also offers an upgrade of the Cronus to the Magnum for a very reasonable price of $650. Along with other sonic advantages, this would almost double output from 55 WPC to 90 WPC. It would be tough to get a comparable second external amp... | |
| Digital cable upgrade? Can you tell a difference? Agree that it's worth trying, but improvements may not be on the same scale experienced with your other cable upgrades. | |
| Berning ZH-270 Grill / Cover Check to see if this is not a Torx-headed screw, for maybe a T20 or T25 wrench. | |
| Is ripping from a laptop as good as a desktop? "no difference if the CD is perfect. If the CD is imperfect a poorer drive will have a harder time of error correction for imperfections" As 123Go indicated, this doesn't distinguish between either desktop or laptop. And even with an imperfect CD,... | |
| Is ripping from a laptop as good as a desktop? No difference if you're ripping digital-to-digital. dbPoweramp displays reliability of your transfers and will let you know if there is a problem.If you're considering A-D or D-A, some of the better solutions involve add-in cards that require a de... | |
| how to wire NHTST4 with Marantz SR8000 First, double-check to make sure that your Marantz settings are correctly configured for 2.0 (stereo) speaker output.Main speaker setting should be: Front speakers = LargeAll other speakers = Off.Also experiment with different speaker placements t... | |
| Name 3 under appreciated pop/rock drummers Gotta add Matt Cameron of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Not only a great drummer, but also songwriter. | |
| Can I "double-wire" speakers? Gentlemen, It's great to generalize, but this speaker crosses over at 6kHz. It's also efficient enough for both treble and midrange to be easily driven by a 15 watt SET amp. Just curious, specifically which frequency range are you recommending tha... | |
| Triangle Antal es vs. ex Hi Musicrover,I have no experience with Vandy's except having heard the 5A's which are amazing but beyond my price range and room size.However, I own a pair of the Triangle Antal ESW's, and like Griffith said, they are keepers! If you can afford i... | |
| Can I "double-wire" speakers? Hi Simao,Just because you "can", doesn't meant that you "should".The Titus has a very high frequency crossover, and is also very easy to drive, so IMO bi-amping would be wasting most of what you can gain from the Sophia's presence to give you an i... | |
| Rowlands HGeifman, JRDG has a very good website. Here is the link to list(with phone numbers)of USA dealer/distributors:http://jeffrowlandgroup.com/us/distribution-3.htmlI've found the JRDG reps in my area (southwest) to be incredibly responsive.The 625 an... | |
| Help Me With Everything Needed: Computer Audio For PC media centers/playback, consider XX High-end or JRiver MC-16. For ripping and conversions, try DBPowerAmp's later versions. | |
| Triangle Titus 202 or Triangle Comete ES? ZMan,Glad you scored on the 25th Anniversary Edition, and yours is an interesting comparison with the DeCappo's. How well does the Almarro work with the Comete's? Any extra tweaking? Audiobore, This could be an opportunity!Best, | |
| J river Media Center 16 settings.....HELP To configure JRiver 16 for outputting to the V-Link in your source file's native resolution: - Set up for running in WASAPI-Event mode, and then set DSP Studio/Output Format/Bitdepth to "Source Bitdepth".How that might effect SQ is an open questio... | |
| Triangle Titus 202 or Triangle Comete ES? Zman, it's great to hear that it worked out for you. Hopefully, some of the insights you glean on setup and component matching will be showing up on posts to your systems thread? I think in general Triangles sometimes require a bit more "care and ... |