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| Clean AC power Household Circuitry: 101All household circuits are tied together at the circuit breaker panel. Kind of like a train switchyard. The rumbling of a train will be most severe on the track it’s traveling. But, the other tracks will still suffer the ef... | |
| Clean AC power Dirty power = Distortion (noise) comes from 3 primary sources:1) The utility company – coming into the house circuit breaker panel.2) Appliances within the house – eg: TV’s, computers, fluorescent lighting, refrigerators, HVAC, hair-dryers, etc. S... | |
| Adjusting the sonic fingerprint of a system. It’s better to set the volume @100% in the digital realm. Lower the gain in the analog realm. Lowering the volume in the digital realm reduces resolution - and may introduce negative artifacts. | |
| Second opinions — how have others (including non-audiophiles) helped you? Years ago, I moved to a new city and discovered that I lived near an audio reviewer. I contacted him by email and he graciously invited me over to his home. As soon as he turned on the music, a whole new auditory world opened up. It was immersive,... | |
| help on changing capacitors Michael Percy is the go-to guy for capacitors. His website isn’t slick. But, he supplies the best engineers in high-end audio. https://www.percyaudio.com/ | |
| Audiophile router configuration The OP is the creator of 'Fidelizer-Audio'. Any suggestions he offers should be seriously considered. | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? Below is a comment lifted from this Mojo Audio Mystique DAC thread. fuzzbutt1709-25-2020 2:54pmHi Everyone.Benjamin here: owner of Mojo Audio and designer of the Mystique series of DACs.The most important thing to remember is the DAC can only give... | |
| Digital XLR vs Digital RCA I remember last concert, the guy next to me claimed to his wife, that the sound is not as good in concert sa with his LP/Tube sound system doodle601-10-2020 8:30am"we have friends whose seats at the Myerson Symphony Hall in Dallas sport a brass so... | |
| USB sucks rixthetrickImagine if it were possible to have a totally solder free set of cables, or crossovers, amplifier etc. Cold welded USB, XLR cables and speaker cables.- Hot welded: Allnic Audio cables.- Ultrasonic welded: Blue Jeans cables. I am disappo... | |
| Speaker size and bass In other words, having bigger speaker doesn’t really help much in giving more or better bass, because we are constraint by the volume. Perhaps, a re-phrasing. The challenge is get all of the sound waves to arrive at the listening chair - at the s... | |
| Measuring line noise and power conditioners mijostyn"All this stuff about power cords, conditioner and fancy outlets is nonsense."Only this statement is. | |
| Chord Dave - Missing soundstage width do you have an example off a piece of music that have a very wide soundstage and that can be found on TidalCut: Gypsy Nights Artist: Craig Chaquico Album: PanoramaA wide sound stage can be:- Recorded well to reproduce the effect.- Engineered artif... | |
| support for heavy PC? " . . .and rotate the outlet 180 degrees so the ground pin is at the top. That way the ground pin handles all the weight of the cable . . . "Did the above. Bad idea. The ground pin on the heavy power cable bent - and then broke off. A support unde... | |
| Basic Digital Audio Setup Advice " . . . There is so much else going on in a PC. System monitoring and all sorts of stuff that you don’t realize. . ."This is where Fidelizer and/or Audiophile Optimizer comes in. They shutdown or re-prioritize computer processes specifically for a... | |
| Subwoofers driving me nuts Have you done the subwoofer crawl with a sub at the listening chair - as shown here? |