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| Speaker choice without need for deep bass @OP - If you read my original post, that's precisely what I said. Over and out on this one. | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass @OP I am only managing to reply to you now. With respect, you are missing the point. Small drivers in small cabinets will not deliver scale at high spls even if they do not have to reproduce low bass. 40Hz is (roughly) low E on a 4 string bass. M... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass @OP You are up against the laws of physics. You can make a small speaker play loud, but scale requires the ability to move a lot of air. So if you want concert level spl's and scale, a small two way just will not cut it. The closest to achieving t... | |
| Using external DAC with preamp with built-in DAC @OP - I suspect you are looking at preamps at the more affordable end of the market as it's those that tend to have built in DACs. The majority of high end preamps are analogue only. | |
| Chinese DAC's Tariffs apply to the landed price of the goods including shipping and insurance, so 10% becomes more than 10% at retail. | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? The Studio Player is absolutely outstanding. That's based on extensive listening to it. | |
| Listening Room or Components or my ears? @OP - two definite problems and one potential one. Your Focals are bright sounding and the Rogue amp leans in the same direction - put together its a case of negative synergy. But the speakers are the more problematic of the pair. The room sounds ... | |
| Audio Technica AT-ART1000X "OP - The arm is the limiting factor on Technics turntables. Something at the level of a Hana Umami Blue would probably make more sense. However, I agree that Technics TTs are underrated. | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? "The only way to tell a $50K DAC apart from a sub - $1K DAC is with your eyes." @Jasonbourne71 - respectfully, it would be better if you used your ears. | |
| Bad idea? @OP If you can't solder, buy cables in the correct length instead. In fact, that is the better way to go anyway. | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, Generally the price premium for XLRs over unbalanced cables is pretty small. Transparent are an outlier because the bulk of the cost of a Transparent cable is the networks. This is evident from the fact that Transparent charges relatively little f... | |
| 5ar4 rectifier tube @OP - if the tube is a genuine 5AR4 there is no reason why any brand should not work. However there is a huge spread of opinion on whether the entire family of 5--4 and 247 rectifiers are cross compatible, even though they are pin compatible. | |
| No preamp in system @OP. The best test is when you reinstall your preamp. Perhaps your preamp has been limiting the sound of your system so the system actually does sound better without it. Or when you reinstall the preamp, maybe the sound will be better than with n... | |
| Background vibration and your system. A lot of people remark that their system sounds better at night and attribute this to less mains noise. But the complementary conjecture is that there is a lot less traffic activity at night - in urban environments anyway and so a lot less low fre... | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) @OP The Luxman PD-151 is worthy of consideration as is a Technics 1200 or 1300. Both are solidly built and excellent sounding. |