yoyoyaya
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| 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. | |
| Gain level on a REL sub @OP. I know you say the situation was different with a previous sub, but perhaps you are expecting too much of the Rel. There's only so much a sub can do when the main speakers are limited in frequency extension. But even given that, there is no ... | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? @OP and Lewm - thanks for your responses. My point in relation to SEM's was a more general one in the sense that there is a tendency (not on your part, I hasten to add) that mass negates vibration. On the specifics, the average concrete floor is ... | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? @lewm. A poured concrete floor isn't that inert at all - ask laboratories that use electron microscopes. In any event, isolation bases are there to isolate from airborne vibrations as well as those coming through the floor. And a pair of XVX's wil... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? @OP You need a better cartridge. Or at least a different cartridge. Ultimately a better turntable will help too. |