swampwalker
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| Andy Kim - Needle Clinic I can answer for Doug authoritatively and say that at 2000 hours your Kleos will be toast and that solely as a result of my extreme generosity, I will pay you $100 (and I will send you a prepaid shipping lable) to take it off your hands so that yo... | |
| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? I guess my ears are $hit. I am very happy w the SQ from Pandora 1, streamed to my MW Transporter. Also sounds great on my desktop using HRT II+ and NHT M00/S00 active speakers. My bad! Will have to try Mog and Spotify also, but | |
| Manufacturer speaker power recommendations Using the higher power amp is less likely to damage the tweeter, provided of course that you resist the urge to turn it up to 11, which is more likely to occur if you use a lower power amp. Higher power suggested limit is most likely, IMO, to prot... | |
| Where do audiophiles retire? @Rx8man- you bet. The swamp is where I work, not where I play. | |
| Where do audiophiles retire? +1 Rx8man- 'nuf said!!!! | |
| What is the best planar or electrostatic speaker? @Essentialaudio- Thx for posting, for a minute there I thought my BS detector had registered a false positive ;-) | |
| First Post Looking for Integrated Amplifier OP, where are you??? | |
| overheating rodman may be on to something. Bass boost would increase power demand significantly. | |
| Keep wife happy with Bluesound Vault with Ipad? Based on the experience of friends and family, I can tell you that it would be less expensive to integrate your big rig w a way better than average whole house system than it would be to get a divorce. | |
| overheating First check to make sure that there are no restrictions to air flow to the amp. If not, then yes you can use fans, but if your Def techs are a current model w 92 db 8 ohm sensitivity and you are pushing a 200 wpc amp so hard it goes into thermal s... | |
| Use Your Own Ears I think my assesment of components within my system will now be strongly based on how I feel while listening to music. Is it involving? Does it draw me in? Does my mind constantly wander onto something else other than the music? If it does, how qu... | |
| Computer output to DAC, which route? If all designers were equally skilled and all systems were up to snuff, the decision making process would much easier and there would not be so much bickering about which source is better. Everyones experience is based upon different designs and d... | |
| The future of preamps Keith- If you want to contact Steve McCormack, you can do it thru this site (user name Stevemcx I believe) or thru his mod company SMcAudio. He's usually very approachable. | |
| preamp Luxman C1000 - how set up gain/volume ? What Clio said. | |
| First Post Looking for Integrated Amplifier Hi Justin- You stated that your receiver does not have a phono input and that your pre-amp must be turned up to nearly full volume. We still need to know more information to helop you. How are you connecting the pre-amp output to your receiver, do... |