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| Seeking Advice to Improve My Audio System ($1000 Budget) @OP Carlyleciv - To answer your question about preamps in simple terms: the preamp is the part of the amplification chain that takes the input signals, allows switching between them and volume control, and passes the signal to the power amp, which... | |
| ??? Are Manufacturers Killing Our Hobby ??? Its a "glut" of manufacturers but it's not responsible for damaging sales. | |
| Pass Labs XA-25 vs XA-30.8 amplifier @OP. From personal experience, Passlabs products are extremely reliable. As Dynamiclinearity says above, the number in the amps' name is the Class A power output. Hi-Fi News magazine has just reviewed the 30.8. The concluding line is "It's a per... | |
| Clone DarTZeel amps? Even if a clone manufacturer were to produce a genuine clone, they haven't paid for the R&D and the IP that is embodied in the original, or the marketing and other overheads required to establish and support a brand. But even accounting for th... | |
| Ikea Mittzon; Ikea does it again. https://www.ikea.com/mx/en/manuals/mittzon-acoustic-screen-floor-standing-gunnared-beige__AA-2536537-1-100.pdf Here's the frequency chart. In Europe at least, GIK make gobos for pretty much the same price. | |
| Best amplification for Magico S3 newer version on your experience @OP. In my experience, the 509 does not sound as powerful as its rated specification suggests. You could try a Pass Int 250 for comparative purposes. If nothing else, it will demonstrate that not all competently designed amplifiers sound the same. | |
| Room Acoustics and Speaker Placement @hilde45 If you look at the OP's pictures from a previous post, it will make more sense. @OP - the numbers you quote look accurate and confirm what your pictures show, namely, that if you leave a reasonable distance from the right hand side wall ... | |
| Room Acoustics and Speaker Placement @OP - Understood, thanks. (Mrs) probably won't be rushing to apply acoustic treatment but you will need some as the space is going to be very reflective otherwise. | |
| Room Acoustics and Speaker Placement @OP The photos re helpful. Perhaps you could give consideration to relocating your dining area and placing the speakers on the wall in the picture that is marked "dining". The other two locations have very little width to accommodate speakers. | |
| Room Acoustics and Speaker Placement Number two is the better of the setups. You might get some unwanted ambient sound from the dining room in setup 2 but that's better than having the speakers in, effectively, two different acoustic environments as in option one. | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? Just for comparison - Rolex are reputed to make about a million watches a year and to hold 30 percent of the luxury watch market - so market size, about 3.5 million sales per year. I would hazard that there are a lot more luxury watch owners than... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Thanks Jeff - BTW, I was impressed by your home networking system. I recently purchased a pre-owned Cisco switch but unfortunately, it died after two weeks so its back to the drawing board there for me. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @richardbrand - being old enough to remember the launch of CD doesn't make you that old... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @jeffbij re "Even a CD player has safeguards to guard against read errors, it’s called oversampling." CD error correction is based in Cross Interleave Reed Solomon coding. Oversampling is primarily used to allow shallower slope anti-aliasing fil... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear There is a massive hi fi industry in Poland - including J Sikora Turntables and JCAT and Exact in streaming related products. Also in Lithuania Less Loss Cables. In Greece, Kostas Metaxas's intriguing creations including his RTX Tourbillion tape... |