sns
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| I replaced the volume pot on my tube preamplifier. Gave up on volume pots years ago, only high quality stepped attenuator or TVC for me. | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? I perceive Edith Piaf's voicing/delivery in the context of when it was popular. Her popularity soared in the war years, this is a voice of patriotism, resolve. Joan Baez sometimes does the vibrato thing to excess, nothing near these 'divas' so... | |
| Out of Balance This is simply another recording variable, strange mixes aren't that unusual. Trying to 'repair' these mixes on an individual basis is a recipe for unhappy listening sessions so I just accept them as is. | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? No doubt speakers do differ in openness, spaciousness, entire system, room, quality of AC and the recordings themselves can greatly lend or take away from air/spaciousness. When talking about black backgrounds, this comes mostly from the elect... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? My first 'high end' speaker were the AR 3A's, didn't last long once I heard speakers like Dahlquist DQ 10's, Maggies, Eventually did get the Dahlquists, still have them today, stuck in a closet. Went on to other Carl Marchisotto designs with Alon/... | |
| The Hi Fi Audio Quest: circa late 1950s 50's before my time, we did have this huge Magnavox console with the color tv, tuner, turntable built in during the later half of 1960's. Lots of great memories attached to that, started my fascination with audio. | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Number of considerations. System and room speaker being used in, the exact same speaker can have many voices. Changes such that freq response, phasing, impedance affected may or may not be a good thing. In the process of designing/voicing loudspea... | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? Unruly crowds, this my pet peeve. I've had so many concerts absolutely shattered by loud mouths, people over reacting, its like they want to be the star of the show, make themselves heard. I'm not there to hear you! | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? Above threads explain air well, Sound stage spaciousness and openness in higher frequencies is what I hear. I've long been attracted to open baffle and now horns as best at providing the sound stage spaciousness. Part of your explanation of ai... | |
| Recommendations for a new subwoofer? I've been through a few subs over the decades, my present pair of Rel T9x best integration of subs I've experienced. Certainly these Rels not earth/room shaking but that's not what I'm looking for. I want my subs to be invisible, simply be an exte... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes So on top of Qobuz using TCP/IP protocol, streamers and their operating systems has a bearing on delivering bits. Here is a read in regard to how Euphony OS (which I use) delivers data to dac, https://euphony-audio.com/hesk/knowledgebase.php?arti... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? All the things previously mentioned are considerations, I also need to see quality parts, I also much prefer point to point wiring in pre's, amps, speaker crossovers, power supplies extremely important. | |
| Buyer Beware @sdorfman58 The only thing at issue is you've not been clear about use of the one Black Magic cable. In your original post you seem to state it worked for two months then suddenly stopped working when you decided to use volume control. This makes... | |
| Buyer Beware @richardbrand USB was never designed for error-free streaming. +1 | |
| Buyer Beware This what you stated, "In the system using the standard Black Magic USB the system was not using the built in volume control. About 2 month after purchasing the cable I tried using the internal volume control in the dac and it only worked at full ... |