timlub
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| Help with shopping for a power amp The 200 will add more low end control, more extension on both ends, better focus and dynamics over a 100. I wouldn't say warmth will be much improved as a whole. | |
| Jplay Mini More good advice, thanks Richard, Tim | |
| Jplay Mini Thanks Tom, I will try that, I have deleted and downloaded it several times, but always from the download site. I will save it to a file. When I increase the rate to 256, it plays just a bit faster, but still distorted. That is the only setting th... | |
| Best 80-100 w Amplifier Available Under $4k Used? I am right on with Tom6897, I was going to suggest McCormack or Coda. If you want to try cheap?? If you can come across an Old Sumo Nine or Nine Plus and willing to wait for modifications, after modifications, they are truly wonderful... I have la... | |
| Jplay Mini Question for you guys, as I stated, I tried this one evening and enjoyed it. Since I have tried several times and have only gotten it to run once. I get very slow and distorted playback. I have changed bit rate around, ram settings, river & be... | |
| What makes a bigger change, dac or preamp? preamps make a bigger difference by far than DAC's, But I would suspect a good DAC would make more difference than the DAC in the Touch. I've not listened to your Quad to comment, but I believe that is the real question. | |
| Jplay Mini I'm glad this thread has been opened, I've been thinking about trying JPlay for a couple of months, this thread put it front and center. Just loaded the trial version tonight and its a very nice improvement. I have a cheap dac (Musiland Monitor 02... | |
| Impedance or sensitivity? Al nailed it dead on. Most solid state amps will not have a problem. Many tube amps have a 4 ohm tap and have zero problems driving a non capacitive load. If you can get a frequency and phase chart, you will see rises and drops in the phase angles... | |
| Help me make sense of what I'm hearing I think along the lines of Wilsynet, but in a 180.Amps add more tube flavor than preamps. You are describing the sonic character of your 555II preamp as the problem. I would change the preamp to a solid state that is known to have that solid botto... | |
| Speaker Burn In? I have built alot of speakers, my experience is that if drivers have larger coils and heavy suspensions, they do take longer to break in. You have to loosen that suspension and before they can reach their potential. Most Dyns have 3" coils in the ... | |
| Which DAC for my HP mini? MF VDAC IISchiit Audio BifrostMHDT HavanaDAC Magic plusYulong D100HRT Music Streamer II+All have their strengths and weaknesses, read up alot of bang for the buck. | |
| Anyone own or heard Edge i3? Don't know your budget, but the Coda integrates are very good. | |
| Red Wine Sig30 ? I had a Sig 30 briefly. My speakers are 86/4ohm. I couldn't get to satisfactory listening levels for all types of music. | |
| MERRY CHRISTMAS It is nice to see the well wishes, thank you all and Merry Christmas to you also | |
| I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT.. Gundam91,Yes, at least my laptop with win7-64 with foobar, outputting wasapi to mg Musiland DAC does |