speakermaster
Responses from speakermaster
| recommendation for a high end analog system Your friends setup is a lot more money but that is not the critical part it is tweaking your system to work with each other better try a solid state pre for your pass amp even a good used one will blow away a tube pre amp. The impedance mismatch b... | |
| How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to? I have at least 8k albums to listen to and i play them all at one time or another but it took me about the last 40 years to put it all together and assemble the collection. | |
| Phono Stage That's not Schiit For a little more than 1k you could try a rogue triton 2 or a parasound jc3jr these would both be a big upgrade from what you already have. | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... Cables take awhile to run in and i have to agree that cardas makes some great cables but you want to go with the clear reflectrion line because they are wound in his original ways and almost always will sound better on most systems. | |
| Home Theater Bypass , why am I hearing this now. Trying to set up one system for movies and music is difficult at best because of the tradeoffs involved but it can be very good if done well but for music a strictly two channel system with two channel components will always win the sound prize. | |
| Adjusting the sonic fingerprint of a system. Volume controls have a linear range of the control and regular volume pots will sound the best turned up to the higher range of the control and on a digital device depending on the control they too can drastically affect your sound so you are not ... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? Tube amplifiers are very speaker sensitive and it is obvious that the wharfedale speakers are not good on a tube amp if you hear weak bass and a loss of dynamics you will have to go to a large tube amplifier to be able to drive them and at that po... | |
| Dedicated AC line - Contractor wants to use BX instead of romex The contractor should wire it how you want them to and use your wire as well and i think that running it in conduit is a good idea that is what i did along with two quad outlets installed. | |
| How far over the limit can I go You will have to have the tubes tested to see how they are but tube sound degradation happens over a period of time slow loss until the tubes fail so you do not really notice until you have to fix the tubes because of noise issues or replacement b... | |
| Cables, just as important as a hi end component? It is very much just as important as any piece of gear and finding the correct cables and matching them well to your system is critical to fully utilizing what you paid for. | |
| Power cable education needed Yes you should get better power cables on all your gear because a good power cable is like a good component change and just as important as one and when you ind the right cable you will know it for any piece of gear. | |
| Do no harm to a signal! Does this mean..... sorry fits lol | |
| Do no harm to a signal! Does this mean..... The cable that best its your system is the one to buy and usually the better cables do less harm to the sound but when you find the right match to your system the magic will happen. | |
| What is better, analog or digital? The format does not matter the more important matter is the recording quality of the material you are playing and both formats can be great sounding when the recording is a good one. | |
| What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile? I would consider an audiophile anyone that pursues a higher connection with the sound and reproduction of music and i believe that most of us in this forum would it in that category. |