trebejo
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| Am I nuts or what? Apple TV Sounds like you got a great deal. Since you're new and you listed certain items, I would suggest that you go down to your local university and talk to anyone at the EE department about whether the various wires you obtained can do anything special... | |
| Changed Speaker Placement NOW BOOMY If you use test tones, you might discover a couple of troublesome frequencies due to room resonance.I fixed the problem in my room by moving them to 1/4 L from each wall. In your room, that would mean dragging them out to... yep... 3' from the wal... | |
| Monoblocks and Marchand A single monoblock handles a single channel; stereo has two channels. That's why you need two monoblocks for stereo, in a regular setup.You might say that stereo splits up the music into left and right.An active crossover like the ones that Marcha... | |
| what is the best, least costly DAC...? The advice to bring a $300 DAC to life with a $1700 digital cable is astonishing in its stupidity.Breathtakingly stupid advice. | |
| Noteworthy article on preserving audio heritage Jeez, your government is helping you and your descendants to maintain access to recordings--for practically nothing--and you complain about wasteful spending? It really, really worries you?!Please, complain (or celebrate, if you liked it) about th... | |
| tube watts vs transistor watts? Stanwal, aside from snide disrespectful remarks, did you bother to look at the graph at the Stereophile site that I told you about?I'm sorry that you have to take that tone, it suggests you have other problems.Now do go to that graph, then come ba... | |
| tube watts vs transistor watts? Tvad, I'm sure you know everything I posted here (ever). You *probably* meant "maximum" instead of "minimum", but that wasn't what I was getting at. It's not just that we humans like one kind of distortion better than another. Whereas for tube amp... | |
| tube watts vs transistor watts? Stanwal, I went to the Stereophile website and randomly selected a solid-state amp reviewed there (since they have nice graphs in their review). Ok, not so randomly selected--it was at the top of the list and it's probably the most recently review... | |
| tube watts vs transistor watts? There's lots of informative answers here but I'm not sure they have answered the original question.When an SS amp approaches its power rating, it will go into distortion very, very quickly. Suppose it is rated at 200 watts; then if you try to get ... | |
| Speaker cables for OHM Walsh 5 MKII? I use the cables by Monarchy on my Ohm 2000s.Having gotten that out of the way, I would suggest that you get cables that are properly terminated, of proper length, and definitely under $200 (I would say under $100 but Monarchy just raised the pric... | |
| For a boomy room, what panels will reduce mid-bass As mentioned earlier, placement of your speakers has a lot to do with it. Try putting the speakers 1/4 of the way into the room for each wall (for example, if your room is 10 by 12, put them at 2.5 by 3 away from the wall). If this dramatically re... | |
| Sealing ported enclosure to reduce boom I had a serious boom problem that was practically eliminated by repositioning the speakers. Sometimes, the problem is the room.Try the following experiment: if your room dimensions are x by y, put the speakers at 1/4 x and 1/4 y from the respectiv... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? Stanwal, the problem that you are describing is properly ascribed to the DAC or the output stage, just like Shadorne said above (twice).Trust me, if the 0's and 1's were getting messed up, it would not be subtle, but horrible--like the sound of a ... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? Ever hear a CD "skip"? That's when the quality matters.The distortion from a bad reading of 0's and 1's will most certainly not be euphonic.So if your tone-deaf buddy/brother/significant other/etc. that thinks that you're crazy to spend all that t... | |
| Van Alstine SS vs. McCormack DNA amps Gra3--the reason I felt the need to weigh in is that your post contradicted my direct experience in a pretty drastic way. Unfortunately, your second post does not really merit any further response, you clearly have personal issues both with Frank ... |