sns
Responses from sns
| Am I Getting Soft Here? I can easily understand your enjoyment of present system. I used a variety of Alon speakers for well over ten years. Also owned PrimaLuna amp rather recently, Alon/Nola and PL all very nice equipment, good for you! | |
| To ROON or not to ROON ? I have exactly no issues with Roon! The interface is simply the best, easily most intuitive. As for sound quality, my new streamer has capability to use proprietary music player, Roon, HQPlayer, all in one or two computer setup. Roon has built in ... | |
| The character of analog and digital In regard to digital having more uniform sound. First off, this not true, top echelon digital equipment will expose quite wide disparities. I have wide variety of digital recordings available to me, from late 80's cd rips to post 2000 cd rips an... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp Good for you if the Mundorfs work for you long term. Every time I've tried Mundorfs, initial impressions good, over time always heard spot lit high freq, rather artificial sound quality result over longer term. Hopefully these work for you long te... | |
| Experience with applying Kilmat to Cornwall IV Horns? A properly designed Tractrix horn is a non band aid approach for horn issues. If your not suffering horn issues, crossover mods alone should fix issue. | |
| Do I need a streamer? DIY route is certainly not for everyone. All this has been steep learning curve for me, and continues to be. The cost premium one pays for off the shelf dedicated streamers is well worth it if one doesn't want to get bogged down in technical detai... | |
| The character of analog and digital @holmz I have yet to install any of this into system, waiting on the Thoress to arrive later this week. Was lowering sibilance a good thing for you, or did it darken things up excessively? I did see one individual had azimuth issues with his e... | |
| Experience with applying Kilmat to Cornwall IV Horns? I'd be skeptical you'll find damping horns in this way to be satisfying long term, band aids like this usually expose their flaws over time. I don't see issues with your equipment so I expect upgrades to crossover only would be good starting point... | |
| The character of analog and digital With recent upgrades in my digital setup I feel no more need for further upgrades. Streaming and/or digital is capable of outstanding performance, relaxed, spacious, extreme resolution, pushes all the right buttons, both for analytical and music l... | |
| Do I need a streamer? @mapman Optimized rendering via USB, I2S, coax, AES/EBU with PC requires JCAT or Pink Faun boards powered via external lps. Rendering via motherboard, even with optimized OS leaves much to be desired. Ethernet optimization effected with JCAT NetCa... | |
| Do I need a streamer? @ghdprentice I've not personally done comparisons to top line off the shelf streamers, but the group of people who built my streamer and other very similar builds did hear and compare my exact build which at the time of comparison used HDPlex 20... | |
| Do I need a streamer? Something that always seems to get lost in streamer discussions is the idea that all streamers are computers. The dedicated streamers use computer motherboards, in some cases the exact motherboards you may find in a standard computer. SOTM makes t... | |
| Do I need a streamer? I agree, don't write off the computer, but you need to do some research, learn how to optimize. You can pair down processes run by operating systems and power with lps, creates much lower noise floor. Computers can compete with or surpass off the ... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I have to say those were the days, I grew up in Ann Arbor MI, counterculture, New Left, intellectuals. 1967, Summer of Love, I saw it first hand as young adolescent, certainly spoke to me. Observed a novel non-conformist way to live, has greatly i... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I had Jensen cap failures in Cary amps I ran some years ago, well known issue with those caps, Don't know if it was bad batch or inferior design or build quality. I recently replaced four coupling caps in my 300B monoblocks with the Duelund CA... |