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| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? If that is true digital volume you're bit stripping, volume should always be set at 100%. | |
| Attention Horn Owners @phusis Never considered going active although sounds interesting, I stuck with the Type A shallow slope design, reportedly most basic and best sounding of the shallow slope. I considered the ALK steep slope design but a good mid driver can extend... | |
| Network Switches A server or streamer is the component that most benefits from a quality lps. Next in line would be switch followed by router then modem. | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? Humans tend to love shortcuts, AI provides a more efficient use of one's time. Benefits of AI will gain salience through marketing,/propaganda, costs will be hidden and/or ignored. | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. Some bad info on this thread, Zelle, Venmo, Cash App and the like are not without substantial risks, I wouldn't use any of them for big ticket transactions with strangers. I'm selling a car at this very moment on facebook marketplace, mostly time ... | |
| Streamer Options Needed One relatively cheap alternative is the Teradak linear power supply for mac mini. You've already done good thing with the OS mod, lps for mini is the other major improvement for sound quality with the mini. A mini with modded OS and lps is somethi... | |
| Attention Horn Owners Meant to say wood horns. | |
| Attention Horn Owners With the modded Khorns hard pinned info really extends into room, but at the same time I have a wonderfully deep center sound stage which can also extend out into room. I've had narrow baffle box loudspeakers in the past which made speaker disappe... | |
| Vinyl that is impossible to find I don't get the digital on vinyl thing. If there is digital provenance anywhere in release I prefer listening to the streams. The fully unique sound qualities of vinyl can only be appreciated via fully analog releases. And then if original master... | |
| CD's or Vinyl? Physical media already somewhat obsolete in that vast majority of available media is used. Fewer and fewer new releases on vinyl or cd, especially true for cd. I continue to keep in touch with vinyl availability since I still run a pretty nice vin... | |
| Popping sound Hopefully its something simple and/or external to your system. Tube starting to fail would be simplest and most easily resolved issue if issue is in system. If popping doesn't resolve itself via any of the methods suggested above I'd not continue ... | |
| CD's or Vinyl? For many of us cd's have become redundant since we have at least equal sound quality via rips and streams. Vinyl not redundant since it has unique sound qualities, meaning all analog provenance. If vinyl has any digital provenance that uniqueness ... | |
| Audio Grade Ethernet Cable We've long heard the same argument used in regard to AC and the last few feet. | |
| Audio Grade Ethernet Cable I haven't used internet provided modems or routers for many years. Providers servers not more than 30 miles from me so ping times very fast, also have 1gig service so fast download, upload speeds, finally gaming router for low latency. I did ... | |
| Audio Grade Ethernet Cable @cleeds You're correct on that everything needs to be addressed. Streamers are quite distinct from networks, what they are fed is critical. Saying that networks don't matter is akin to saying what's upstream from any interface is not important. Th... |