twoleftears
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| XLR cables for a reasonable price? XLR Cable and Chassis Connector Grounding "Neutrik is often asked whether the shiny silver tab on typical XLR cable connectors should be connected to anything." "In the course of the evolution of the AV industry, it has come to be that this ta... | |
| DACs with switchable high/low gain (output) settings Demo Weiss DAC 204 incoming for a home trial. If it does what I'm hoping it does, I'll get a 205, as that has all the features (few) that I need. Honestly surprised that more brands don't offer this feature. Not everyone wants to run their DAC ... | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing No love for the Simaudio 260D? https://simaudio.com/en/product/260d-cd-transport-with-optional-dac-2/ The Primare DD35 seems to go completely unnoticed. https://primare.net/product/dd35-cd-transport/ At a lower price point, there's the Primare... | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing Brand new and very promising. https://teac.jp/int/product/vrds-701t/top | |
| Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there? chum noun (FISH) fish or meat cut into small pieces and thrown from a boat to attract larger fish, for example sharks | |
| New Western Electric 91E 300B Tube Integrated Amp REVIEW ! The classic Dennis Had-designed Cary 300B SETs, from back in the day, were capable of 9, 10, 11 watts; the one I owned drove my ProAc Response 2.5s to volumes I would never listen at. So the JA measurements of output of the WE did give me some pa... | |
| Just how many options does 1 need in a 2 way bookshelf design? Graham LS5/8. It may not look it, but that's a 12" woofer. And now something old that's new from Wharfedale (Dovedale), with a 10" woofer. | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear Yet another reason to explore the excellent offerings from AGD and Atmasphere. Now you can have your cake and lift it. | |
| Just how many options does 1 need in a 2 way bookshelf design? OP, I think you'd feel more at home here: http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl Sweet Vinyl Sugarcubes help quite a bit. | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) The best stands come from this firm in Britain. They make a wide range of dedicated and non-specific stands. https://www.customdesign.co.uk/speaker-stands-acoustic-steel-hifi-isolation-platform-speaker-stand-supports-hifi-stands-hifi-isolation-s... | |
| Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording There's a rather good movie out there called Eroica, made by Simon Cellan Jones. As you might suspect, it features among other things a performance of that symphony. For those just starting out with classical music, it demonstrates very well, I ... | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k ICON AUDIO. Very well reviewed. And reasonably priced. https://www.musicdirect.com/search/?query=icon#/icon/0/score/desc/?tab=product&category_names_na_str=Equipment,Amplification | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl One of the major DAC manufacturers (I can't reveal which) is currently working on a little add-on box that will introduce subtle pops and ticks and barely perceptible needle-in-groove surface noise into the digital signal, so that streamers can ha... | |
| Open Baffle Experience @soix They were almost certainly the X4's, which is what Spatial has been using recently at shows, coupled with the LTA ZOTL40+ integrated. Earlier in this thread I posted a video of that same combo at the Pacific show. Because of supply issues ... |