vinylshadow
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| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath in 1980 or 81. They destroyed Sabbath. | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? If you have a DAC like Audio Analogue's that has an analog volume control, you don't need a preamp. I have a vinyl rig and send the signal from my phono preamp to my DAC and out to my amps. No preamp. Preamps are merely expensive volume control... | |
| New analog rig(t.t.,tonearm,phono drive) @mdbrown When I was corresponding with Alex about my refilling my empty Basis 2001 pods, it was suggested that if I did not want to send the pods back to have them recalibrated, to buy 1 of the Basis 4oz bottles of silicone for $160 and add 1oz ... | |
| Anyone replace the springs of a Nobsound footer? Live Vibe brass decoupler sets are better than any springs out there. Springs lose their tension. | |
| SPEAKERS THAT SOUND ALIVE & DYNAMIC AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS Fischer & Fischer slate speakers for the win. | |
| Should I buy a seperate dac? Ultimately, yes. | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT Yes. They have bigger transformers and circuitry. I still think that spending the larger % of money on the DAC is most important though. Buying a separate DAC and streamer is a good decision as well. | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS Fischer & Fischer SN 370's. The slate cabinets cannot be beat for what you're looking for. And they are $15k/pr. | |
| Good choice for 20' XLR cable? Townshend Audio F-1 Fractal IC's | |
| using two outputs from a dac? Provided that you don't have a turntable, if your DAC has an analogue volume control, as does Audio Analogue's DAC, you don't need a preamp. | |
| Selecting Rear Surrounds for 5.1 system I've got JM Labs, now Focal, Electra's. They do a great job. | |
| How to Connect DAC's USB Port to Ethernet Cable @cleeds There aren't many but which records were mastered in 24/96? @bigby DSD is good. You need a good DAC for it though. Playback Designs MPD-8 can do it. And it uses the glass cable P-Link between its streamer and DAC. Those special glass cabl... | |
| How to Connect DAC's USB Port to Ethernet Cable I don't understand why people feel the need to listen to upsampled music from a streamer/DAC. Most recordings were done in 16/44 and sound best that way. 24/96 "just makes stuff up". | |
| Streaming from a TV Connect a Chromecast dongle to the TV's HDMI? | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? Yes. Playback Designs MPS-X streamer> P Link> MPD-8 DAC. Organic, vinyl like sonics...Some might get close but that combo cannot be beat by any other pair regardless of price. |