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| will large speaker magnets damage LCD screen? No. You won't. | |
| Woofers going crazy when playing vinyl You are experiencing acoustic feedback. You need to move the table to a difference location. | |
| Upgrade with best price/performance ratio Room treatments. Nothing can sound right in a bad room.Ferrite snap-on core noise filter. About $2 each. Put one on each end of all digital cables and power cables saved me from buying audiophile brand cables.Replace batteries in my Vandy 5 crosso... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? Herman,IMHO, SETs are distortion generators. They can make a Yamaha violin sounds like a Stradivarius. Like guitar amps, they should be considered more like a musical instrument than audio reproducing equipment. Can SETs sound good? Sure, I like t... | |
| DIY tube pre-amp recommendation requested Have you looked at the Hegerman's kits? They are excellent. http://www.hagtech.com/clarinet.html | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? IMHO, Audio merits are based on scientific merits. There is no magic here.BTW, this topic has been debated for the Nth times. Search is your friend, my friend. | |
| Looking to buy a complete 2 chanel system Here is what I will do:Mac Mini with 4G RAM $ 800Pure Music software $ 130A pair of 2TB Seagate FreeAgent Desk HD for Mac USB2.0, FireWire 800(1 for primary, 1 for backup) $ 400iPad for remote $ 500Benchmark DAC-1 HDR $1,900Quicksilver Audio V4 12... | |
| I need tunes at work Most likely you network has installed a URL filter which blocked pandora.com. One way to get around it is to use a public proxy relay server which isn't blocked by your URL filter. When you want to connect to pandora, you will connect to the proxy... | |
| Mounting bookshelfs flush with ceiling - can you? Bad idea. Regular speakers are designed to point at the listening position. Mounting them flush with the ceiling will point them downward. They won't sound right. | |
| Why not horns? Shadorne, I have yet seen or heard any speaker which can play loud with such low 0.3% THD. You might be able to get a measurement In the lab playing a single sine wave signal at a particular frequency at a particular level, but I don't know of any... | |
| Flac conversion for ipod? iPod doesn't support anything higher than 16/48k. | |
| When is an amp ‘just too old? ’ To buy? Well all Bryston amps have 20 year warranty so if you buy a 10 year old Bryston, you still have 10 more year warranty to go. As long as an amp is well designed and built, even 10 year old isn't too old. | |
| Flac conversion for ipod? Yes. Max will do exactly what you says. I have purchased hi-res FLAC tracks from HDTracks.com and converted them to AIFF using Max, and played from iTunes without any problem. | |
| Would center channel benefit audio only room? I will say no. Even you use three identical speakers, the position of the center speaker is so different from the left and right speakers, it is impossible to create a seamless blend in. | |
| What's the best HDMI cable that you have tried ? The Amazon's Ultra-High-Speed HDMI Cable is fantastic and a great value. It is very well shielded. I can easily see the difference when comparing to a stocked cable. Playing the blu ray disc "Up", I can see noise in the blue sky with stocked cable... |