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| New DAC with streamer I’ve never read a negative word about Bricasti DACs or using them as streamers so hard to see going wrong at all. That said, and especially at this price level it really comes down to personal tastes, preferences, and system synergy so the real q... | |
| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds Kinda seems like this jumped right into the weeds about amp design without getting some critical bigger-picture info. You’ve got a long list of equipment on your system page so what are you using now, what improvements would you like to achieve (... | |
| 10 k speaker setup. 5.1 Nice! I’m sure they’ll be thrilled, and thanks for the follow up. Wait, just saw they got one X10 sub? What??? That’s not near inline with the level of the rest of the speakers and only goes down to 29Hz — the 120H goes down to about 20Hz for good... | |
| Simple device for downsampling? In Qobuz you can go into settings and select various maximum resolution levels. Not sure how that’d work with their hi res music but it’s worth a try if you haven’t already. Best of luck. | |
| As An Experiment I Stuck A Few Things Under My Pre-Amp And Am Now On A Quest Townshend Seismic spring-based products get universal praise in reviews and from users, but their stuff don’t come cheap. Other people here looking for a much cheaper spring-based isolation device have used these and have been very happy with the ... | |
| I need a phono pre amp for my ARC VSi75 Herron’s VTPH phono preamps are very highly regarded and should be available in your price range used. Just another option to consider. | |
| AES/EBU balanced XLR digital transmission vs. coax and I2S I think it depends on which inputs the DAC manufacturer puts the most effort into, but I found running i2S from my Iris to my DAC to be notably superior to SPDIF. From what I’ve read AES/EBU sounds to be close to i2S in performance, but I haven’t ... | |
| Best pairing subwoofer with B & W 805D4 Well, at that budget I’d look at JL Labs and REL (different approaches), and Rhythmik subs offer very high-value performance as they sell direct. Neither the REL nor Rhythmic subs include any integration software if that’s an issue. Obviously B&... | |
| Best pairing subwoofer with B & W 805D4 What’s your budget, and are you looking for new or used? Are there any size restrictions or limits in number of subs? I’d highly recommend at least two subs for a good 2-channel system such as yours if at all possible. | |
| For wi-fi streamers--a discovery to increase wi-fi strength Let us know how it works out if you could. | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan More made-up crap dredged up from the deep. | |
| Power Cables - Third Party or OEM Could be hit or miss. While using the same brand cables as the conditioner may sound logical, I’d place the priority on choosing cables that possess the sound characteristics you’re looking for in the context of your system and then choose a cond... | |
| 10 k speaker setup. 5.1 Paradigm makes very good center speakers, which is key and not true of many other makes where it seems more like a design afterthought. I used to use a phantom center too and worked great near the sweet spot, but once you got more than a couple f... | |
| 10 k speaker setup. 5.1 I wouldn’t recommend a phantom center for reasons stated above and also because it sounds like the L/R speakers will be spaced pretty far apart and you’ve got people sitting off axis — all of which cries out for a center speaker. SVS offers a high... | |
| Meitner Ma1 Not Powering Up Could be a blown fuse if you can pop the top and check that. |