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| Ideal power cord lengths? I've audtioned and diy built many PC's over the years, I can't recall a single experience where I put differences down to length of PC, and this from a person who regularly changes out things like capacitors, resistors, inductors, etc, and does he... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @dpop The setup you're speaking of is pretty much exactly replicates my AC setup! Speaking of neutrals, recently I experimented with two of my diy power cord recipes. One has exact same number and gauge of wire for neutral and hot, the other h... | |
| Direct Drive I've owned Rega and VPI belt drives, much prefer my Technics SP10MKII with custom plinth. Much more slam, impact, pace than the belt drives. Perhaps my situation unique in that I mostly concentrated on digital side for years, resulting in sup... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Mary Hopkin, Earth Song, Ocean Song. | |
| Sound quality of Roon Vast, vast majority of Roon issues are either user or network issues, I've not had single Roon caused issue in a few years of using it, only time I had issues, my network to blame. Roon forums will also prove this out, Roon pretty much as foolproo... | |
| What's going on with the used audio gear market? @ghasley + And another rant about gvt. spending. What about consumer spending, completely left out of equation! Consumers have been spending like crazy coming out of pandemic, so deprived! Supply constraints left out as well, suppose that's prese... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? @soix There is rep from Ifi who regularly contributes on headfi forum. I'd PM him at that forum, goes under moniker, IFIAudio. I'd add vinyl is pretty much on par with streaming for complications or lack thereof. Streaming is different in that... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @rudyb This is exactly what my N.E.W. DCA66 class A ss amp did, and this all back in late 90's! It was nice to have an off the shelf all in one package offering, thought I would have seen more offerings in such a package over the years. | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive I'm in same boat with digital so much better no longer listen to vinyl, and this with well over 3500 albums. I estimate I'd have to spend upwards of $10K on phono pre and cartridge to get back to something like level playing field. Not sure I'm go... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? You'll only become more confused over the course of this thread as nearly unlimited presentation of best subjective results with various equipment and schemes. Believe this due to a technology in fast growth phase, expect much innovation in co... | |
| Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up Lps on modem is interesting! My present modem supplied by cable company, has internal power supply. perhaps I should look into new modem with external power supply. Powering router with lps was very worthwhile upgrade, I could see this as nice. up... | |
| Is this the entrance to my rabbit-hole? Forgot to add. In determining whether to go shallow or steep slope crossover, I came across various opiniions, both have advantages and disadvantages, I chose the shallow slope based on some reporting a more discreet presentation with steep slope,... | |
| Is this the entrance to my rabbit-hole? @ianrodger My room is 13" x 26' with opening into kitchen, which extends another 10" or so. have Khorns on short wall, being only 13"W meant on axis listening far too close to speakers. With the artificial wall I was able to extend on axis listen... | |
| Sound quality of Roon Comparing to ripped cd's, local files certainly is good way to ascertain sound quality. Not sure I believe these music players don't have unique sound quality, many report they do. I recall hearing unique sound qualities when I initially swit... | |
| Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up You'd think a high quality switch would lend lower noise floor to network vs router. If I could do without wifi I'd go with switch, but adding switch to router has not worked out well for me. KISS at work here? Conundrum is theoretical advanta... |