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Sometimes my system sounds great, sometimes awful
Lloydc, you are right. It's 0:45AM and everything's place. Even listening to Spotify free via a bluetooth connection seems to work okay. I also suffer the paranoia about disturbing others, but now that I think of it, maybe the paranoia of being al... 
Sometimes my system sounds great, sometimes awful
It seems that many of you agree that power conditioning is a good thing. What is a reasonable power conditioner solution that doesn't break the bank? 
Sometimes my system sounds great, sometimes awful
I've read mixed opinions on conditioners, some say they kill dynamics, probably not all of them.What I notice the most is how sometimes everything sounds flat and muddy, then sometimes I wonder how everything's sweet and engaging. Maybe I have bi-... 
Explain speaker cable resistance, capacitacance?
Thank you for yor very detailed reply! Best. 
Explain speaker cable resistance, capacitacance?
Thank you all for your replies. I read a thread in another forum where they measured cables and came up with one very high end ic that had an impedance of 50ohm, they sounded very surprised with this fact. Why? 
speaker hiss with audio aero capitole mkII
It is clearly from the Capitole. I connected my other player (Rega Jupiter+IO DAC) and it is dead quiet. I even turned the volume down on the Capitole to -7db to match it with the Rega's 2v output and the hiss persisted. 
speaker hiss with audio aero capitole mkII
Same thing happens with my Cap MkII. The curious thing is that the hiss is mainly heard in the right speakerĀ“s treble and mids, while in the left I only notice it in the mids. I run Stereophile's phase test and the pink noise clearly sparkled in t...