tcotruvo
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| Buying Pet Peeve - Pictures The OP seems to be saying that sellers will get less money if they publish poor pictures of their item. I would agree with that. Buyers: find good deals on items that have bad pictures. | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? With my current setup I don’t have any tone controls. The NODE has some when using the internal DAC. I’m bypassing that into the SMSL DAC, which has no tone controls. I don’t have a preamp, and my speakers are powered. I’d have to put somethin... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? @erik_squires Thx for your explanation. I reread it, and I can appreciate the considerable time and expertise in your analysis. I don’t currently have enough knowledge to follow up on it with any confidence. My room is a mess, but I can’t do m... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? @erik_squires Thanks for your suggestion! I’m not surprised that my room has difficult ’issues’. I would have thought that they would manifest themselves with all recordings rather than select ones. I’m not very experienced in audio, and not ve... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? I agree it’s a great song, so it’s either Radio Paradise or my system that is the weak point. ’’When I Was Older’ by Billie Eilish is a delicate female vocal that sounds great on what I have. I’ll keep exploring solutions and/or skip songs that ... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? @mastering92 ‘Light As a Feather’. I have it on CD and my iPod, where I’ve listened to it every other day or so for the last 10? years. On Radio Paradise her voice does not sound very ‘present’, but is lost and muffled, as are the instruments. ... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? @ghdprentice Thx for your comments, as it’s good to know that you have consistent excellent sound quality. My system is basic, but I’m tinkering to see if I can fix a week spot. I just ordered parts to create a fiber optic link to my NODE. @tomc... | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? I believe the only way I can control the volume is through the SMSL DAC. I use the SMSL remote. I bypass the NODE DAC and use a USB cable to send the signal to the SMSL. Under ‘Audio Settings’ and ‘Select Output’, once I have connected the NODE... | |
| UPS. Friend Or Foe? I’m sorry to hear of your experience. I would agree double box or triple box audio equipment…with adequate packing inside. The UPS stores I am aware of only sell plastic peanuts or bubble wrap for packing. As these are 99% air they have limited us... | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? @hifiman5 OK, that gives me something to work off of. I haven’t tried any power cable upgrades yet, but I’m getting there. I suppose that most component manufacturers have to keep their costs down, so power cable upgrades are up to the consume... | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? First, I do not want to offend anyone, or dispute their findings about improved sound quality through better power cords. For my system, I have normal Romex electric wire from my breaker box to my plugs. My brain thinks that if I had a power cor... | |
| Buyer anxiety If you have their phone number, why don’t you call. You have nothing to lose. Then you could explain your concerns and see if there are answers. Of course, be careful and protect yourself appropriately . But sometimes situations that look very sha... | |
| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? @chayro How true. I have a list of favorites on Radio Paradise MQA…and they’re my favorites because I think they sound good. Listening to them, my system sounds great! | |
| Subwoofer boom is too much for me... I would think that a port needs to be plugged with something that seals it, like the foam plugs that come with some subs. Maybe cut a piece off of a solid foam pool noodle. | |
| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? @woofman74 @ghdprentice @jerryg123 Yes, ear cleaning is a regular maintenance item for me. @chowkwan Grills are off to see the impact. I read quite an in depth article about this on audioholics which claims that the frame is the biggest fact... |