tcutter
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| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? My mistake. I do like Eva Cassidy at 90 dB, C weighted, max not peak, on iPhone Decibel X app. | |
| What are your top 3 favorite turntable companies (manufacturer) and why? VPI and SOTA from experience Wilson-Benesch from reputation | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? Typically less than 90 dB and always less than 85 when the dogs are with me. My understanding is that this will not lead to hearing damage if exposed for only a few hours a day. I do not think my system needs more work. It's all personal prefere... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? Big Band Basie by the Depaul University Jazz Ensemble with some renowned guests such as Count Basie and Quincy Jones. The performance is above average for a college band, but what made me sit up and take notice was the production. When I checked t... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype Did not bother to view the video. My journey started with my iPhone hooked up through an adapter to a Pass Labs Aleph P. I found it almost unsuitable for even background music. When I went to a Devialet 200 set up with its built-in DAC, I coul... | |
| Power supply to modem make a difference? @ghdprentice What do you mean by isolate the signal? I use a Roon Nucleus with Teddy Pardo LPS. | |
| Power supply to modem make a difference? I would think in the same way it makes a difference for any other digital component such as a streamer or a DAC. | |
| Treating the ceiling and floor, who else has had great results? GIK absorbers on ceiling and side walls along with a good thick cut pile wool rug with pad. Vicoustic combination absorber/diffusers in the front corners, on the front wall, and on the side walls. In the middle of the front wall is a large Vicoust... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" Room treatment is my second most expensive component. | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Just lovely. Tube sound was always offset by fear of reliability (had a bad experience when I was younger), but 300Bs in a preamp are pretty unstressed. It's a dual mono class A design as are the amps. In typical Pass fashion, they have a sound th... | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Little physics, little aesthetics, lot of luck. Anal retentiveness probably helps. | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Thanks. It's taken me a long time and is still a work in progress. Cannot stop tweaking. One of the more interesting phenomena I've noted is that while I have been able to achieve an even flatter frequency response, the room modes were far worse. ... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers And my wife not only is happy with my having this hobby, she also encouraged me to buy the 911. | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers +1 Vivid Audio Giya. Just spent three hours listening to the G2 S2 and I am buying them. | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. I've been experimenting with speaker position including toe in. I was listening to a David Crosby cut off "if I could only remember my name", and heard wonderful instrument placement, artificial or otherwise. I went back to what had been my origi... |