williewonka
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| Crossovers Steve - I just remembered I also had to have a couple of the heavy duty resistors replaced - they were looking "well worn" - but they we're cheap compared to the caps.Regards | |
| Best Dac under $600... New or used I second the Bifrost - with the UBER upgrade - have one - love it!!! | |
| Large banana plugs for 10 awg speaker cable Take a look at Furez products - I've used them on my 10 gauge cables they perform great. | |
| Crossovers I had all the Caps changed in the x-overs of a 30 year old set of speakers - replaced them with Mundorf caps.Cost $250 for both x-oversAs long as the speaker surrounds are in good shape you won't be wasting your money - I had to have my speaker su... | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed Sb, - I think I may have observed something similar.... On a couple of Police tracks it did seem as though the bass drum was quieter, until I realized that the image had deepened considerably and the bass drum was now further towards the rear of t... | |
| Enhancing online radio station sound options Ptss - sorry, have no listening experience with the Oppo. A friend has one and he likes it a lotThe base Bifrost is very good, but if you treat it to good interconnect and power cables it is exceptional. Very high resolution, fast dynamics and cav... | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed Sbrownnw - One other thing to consider might be speaker position.Perhaps making the speakers slightly wider might assist with the image.Also, front to back placement might also make a difference.The KLEI RCA's do make the image wider and deeperIf ... | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed Sbrownnw - I took a detailed look at the electrical specs of the Mogami (I should have done that first) and I didn't see a problem with them - very similar to many other good interconnect cables - except the capacitance was 1/3 of other cables I h... | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed Sbrownnw - I know you like mogami - and so do many others, but there could be architectural issues that may be causing your problems and the Copper Harmony are just bringing them to light.Maybe trying the Copper Harmony with a cable specifically d... | |
| Do You Use USB for Streaming? Steve N - I cannot agree more. Power is of prime importance.However, not everybody on this forum wants, needs or can afford a Ferrarri - some people will settle for a VW.But we all want to get past a GREMLIN :-) For the younger readers - A Gremlin... | |
| DAC improvements slowing down? Scvan - I see your point, but all I have to do is think back to my first PC with it's 16k of ram and 10 Mbyte hard drive - who could possibly want more than that :-) Once they get quatum computers on everyone's wrist our view of the "digital audio... | |
| Do You Use USB for Streaming? Mesch - you are correct - your approach is similar in principle to the cable + power adapter approach I identified - which is, fix the power issues and fix the data issues - then pass the good data to the DAC for conversion.My Bifrost DAC takes ca... | |
| Enhancing online radio station sound options Ptss - radio stations that broadcast over the internet almost always sound better than FM and can be "near" CD quality.What connectivity options does your laptop have - USB, Optical, S/PDIF ?USB is perhaps the most utilized laptop interface and pr... | |
| Do You Use USB for Streaming? Thanks guys - I have the Schiit Bifrost - an excellent DAC for the price. I assumed they used the USB power for cost savings, since it's a very basic little DACThen a couple of months ago Schiit came out with a "Decrapifier" - yes that's its name.... | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed OK - if the L/R are "out of focus" - then yes, the RCA's will provide cleaner transmission of fine details, so the new RCA's will exacerbate that condition. You'll hear more of it.If the AV Comcast Box has an IEC plug you could try a better power ... |