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| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 @yoyoyaya BTW Quick comment on Wilson resistors. They will protect drive units to a point. But if the speakers are massively overdiven on a transient or with a short, at least the tweeters will fry before the resistor has time to blow. 100% t... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? @jea48 I don’t know if that’s a good idea The concern is valid. But the results are fine. My multi-meter agrees. My system is configured the exact same way as my suggestion. Two balanced power conditioners, a non-current limiting conditi... | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain OP: Your question is most common for streaming newbies. Good SQ requires much attention to detail. @kennymacc nailed it. EVERYTHING in the digital chain matters. The easiest and fastest path to good SQ is also the most expensive. High qual... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? Basic set-up 101: - Plug the digital components into the BPT 3.5 balanced power conditioner. Plug this conditioner into the 15amp circuit. The digital components don’t draw much load. - Plug the analog components into the XE-12. Plug it into... | |
| Chair Staples has a huge collection of chairs. I loved this Sharper Image S-600. I’m currently using this mesh desk chair with multiple adjustments - along with a standalone footrest. I also have a $3K Ekornes Stressless. Don’t like it for audio ... | |
| Xhadow XLR Connectors Any Substitutes? Sablon Audio uses Bocchino connectors on many of their high-end offerings. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier That old Audiogon thread veers into a ditch early on due to an argument over, I guess, the physical representation of a digital signal being transmitted over a wire? What a strange comment. Apparently, you might not be aware th... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier Thx for the laugh. Your dismissiveness and bemusing discombobulations are reminiscent of William F. Buckley Jr. * I’ll just ignore your passive-aggressive behavior. I’ve dealt with worse arrogance in the corporate world and ... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers The so-called ’digital realm’ takes place on an analog carrier. - - - The link below is a worthwhile read. It is an enlightening discussion about 1’s & 0’s and square waves by AudiogoN veterans: - Almarg (physicist & multiple patent ho... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @mdalton In your attempt to support your position, you stated that you were guessing at an imaginary % based on a discussion thread that was in no way a credible statistical model for evaluation. That’s a non-sequitur to say the least. The ... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers Many years ago, when I got my Auralic Aries streamer, it sounded better than my modded laptop, but not night & day better. I decided to try an experiment. The stock DC umbilical cord to the factory LPS looked really cheap and flimsy. I DIY... | |
| Streaming Tidal/Qbuzz Vs Internet Radio 👍 It's always thrilling to watch the best of the best - do what they do. I saw the Mayer brothers and Bill Johnson win in Sarajevo. The weather was a bit chilly. I suspect nabbing the gold medals warmed them up some. I had to rely on slivovi... | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? I wouldn’t say that I ’threw’ different brands together. Since my budget is limited, I did a lot of homework before purchasing. The components are made by various manufacturers - some mainstream, some boutique. Each component is quite capable o... | |
| The Expectation Gap The OP seems to be describing ’confirmation bias’. Yet, there are many variables. If a more expensive component is considerably more resolving than the one it is replacing, it’s quite possible that it is revealing ’weaknesses’ elsewhere in t... | |
| New DAC, what should I look for? OP: The sound profile that I’m looking for is smooth and spacious. Have you seriously tweaked the upstream components first, the modem & router? With: LPS’s - digital filters - quality ethernet cabling - power conditioning? |