willemj
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| Audio cables ,and power cords the most forgotton- part of an Audio system. As far as I am concerned 1% is the more correct ballpark. | |
| Anyone Tried Integrating Dirac Room Correction? DSP room equalization works very well for the lowest frequencies, as with subwoofers and in larger rooms. It will also work quite well a little above this, say up to the Schroeder frequency (somewhere between 100-200 Hz, depending on room size). A... | |
| Should I PURCHASE AN EXTERNAL DAC Sonic differences will be very small. The main benefit of an Oppo UD205 instead of both your disc players (why have two?) would be on the video side, where you would be able to play Bluray and UHD Bluray discs for far better picture quality than j... | |
| Total newbie question here about completing a system There are two ways to get a digital signal to your amplifier. The first is to use a computer. Computers have inbuilt Digital to Analogue Converters (DAC) but these are rarely any good. So you need to use their digital output, and that is almost al... | |
| Bi Wire vs Speaker Jumpers Bi wiring is one of these audiophile myths, just like the entire obsession with cables. | |
| Dude, where's my bass? Oh, lost to stiffened rubber surrounds...who knew? Speaker cones do age, and the surrounds even more. These speakers were introduced quite a while ago, so they may be fairly old. Degradation is faster in the sun or close to a heating system, of course.Some people manage to replace the surrounds, b... | |
| inexpensive preamps That Emotiva sounds like a good idea. It will give you digital inputs as well (e.g. for a Chromecast Audio streamer). | |
| Internet radio, streaming, and CD player. Oppo UD 205, plus Chromecast Audio as a source for streaming and internet radio. Add a beefy ss power amp with trigger input and you are all set (with the power amp hidden out of sight, turned on and off by the trigger. | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 Older amplifers should be refurbished, of course. The first thing that has to be replaced would be the power supply caps, as these do degrade and can fail wtih nasty consequences. As I said earlier, with luck you can fit larger modern ones as they... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? JS Bach Weihnachtsoratorium, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, streamed from Qobuz, the European 16/44 streaming service. It is my favourite performance, and the excellent sound quality does it full justice. | |
| DVD by Oppo 205 I would be surprised if it did improve the image even further. The advantage of the UHD 205 is that it handles UHD Bluray, but that is two levels up from DVD. Upsampling one level, to just ordinary Bluray, is already quite an achievement. What is ... | |
| Best way to route signal from laptop to integrated amplifier You will need to know the input sensitivity of your pre amplifier. If it is too sensitive for modern digital sources (which is often the case), you get clipping of the amplifier input circuitry, and that sounds really nasty. A telltale sign would ... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 Amplifier technology reached maturity in the seventies, when output transformers were abandoned in solid state amps. Ever since, well designed amplifiers used within their specifications have exceeded human hearing acuity. Since then, measurements... | |
| REL Vs SVS for 2 channel music listening Assuming this is about an Antimode 8033. It will only equalize automatically. You insert it in the signal chain, plug in the supplied microphone and then start the measurement. It will generate a series of loud successive sweeps from very low to s... | |
| Need recommendation for amplifier If you can still find one: a Yamaha P3500s, tested here: http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/amplificateurs-de-puissance-haute-fidelite/mesures-ampli-yamaha-p...It will save you money, and its 2x350 watt will give a very clean and dynamic sound. I ... |