william53b
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| Best XLRs under $500 a pair I am about to commit heresy; Benchmark. https://benchmarkmedia.com/products/benchmark-starquad-analog-xlr-cable | |
| How Electricity Actually Works It's not the electrons that flow, it's the electro-magnetic field that flows. | |
| How Electricity Actually Works Oops! "Preamp on top of the power amp." Although from a heat dissipation standpoint I guess that could make sense, but I have certainly never seen them stacked that way. 🙄 | |
| How Electricity Actually Works Thanks for clarifying that. It is a problem when you are taught the analogy of plumbing where; water flows through pipes, just as electricity flows through wires , if they are made of copper, in this case. (That was a nice touch in the Cal Te... | |
| Anyone upgraded from Zu Omen DWs to a different Zu speaker? Yes, I upgraded to what is in essence, the Omen Def Supreme; Omen Def Mk IV with the Radian and capacitor upgrade and made my own lower plinth. I wanted greater dynamic range, so chose these over the Soul series, and dropped the Radian down to... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I also endorse the Sony UBP-X800 for Blu Ray, but with one caveat; it does not have a USB port on the back, and using the USB on the front is not a straightforward PNP task. The player requires you to format the disk in a way that it can use it. (... | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile Wow! Thanks for the good news. I actually like Stereophile; and while no one magazine can be all things to all people, I take their opinion on the things they do review seriously. | |
| Recommended integrated amplifier for upgrade @pesky_wabbit It is hard to get around the point that people that do have $50k worth of testing equipment and do reviews probably have that equipment from their day job. But I have the XTZ EDGE A2-300 that I bought last year to try in my studio... | |
| Recommended integrated amplifier for upgrade To @pesky_wabbit Topping bested only by the Benchmark AHB II. I love my Benchmark, but bought a different variant of the Topping circuitry, 150 watts into 8 ohms, for my studio system, and it just kicks butt. Buying amplifiers by the pound is so... | |
| Power Conditioning on the Cheap I also agree with @mitch2. And that a dedicated ground can't be overlooked, if available. Objective? Here you go, from Audio Science Review, a deep look into power regenerators. Personally? I just use a nice TL line conditioner that has a pr... | |
| Improving Comcast modem signal Detailed: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224140225_Cable_modem_buffer_management_in_DOCSIS_networks | |
| Improving Comcast modem signal One other thing. Cable modems have a memory chip to buffer the incoming signal, and that is usually set to the maximum. For some reason yours may not be. If that is the case your modem may not be buffering the data completely before passing it on... | |
| Improving Comcast modem signal Comcast is a joke. I have used Netgear modems for years, and I can assure you the problem isn’t with them. Last year they, Yfinity, offered me gig speed, only to slow down my connection from about 550mbs to 270. Then they told me that even thoug... | |
| Don’t want to freak you out… @termite Oh, I'm not joking. That people would obsess over every aspect of their system and dismiss the physics of anatomy seems odd to me. Of course our brains compensate as best they can for minor physical differences. But, if people do alter... | |
| Don’t want to freak you out… @dadork No, but now I can’t think of them separately. A poetic ear worm? 😂🤣😂 |