zaikesman
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| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? Merely getting a better CDP probably ought be your focus. A superior player might or might not necessarily sound 'warmer' per se, but it should offer improved resolution, extension, dimensionality, tone color, dynamics, and textural refinement, wi... | |
| KT88 Monoblock amp makes a spitting sound at times Swap the tubes, one channel for the other, one tube position at a time, to identify whether the problem follows an individual tube. (If the symptom is only intermittent this may have to be done over a matter of days.) I would start with the input ... | |
| Anyone else evolve beyond tubes? I've been progressively eliminating tubes from my system. First the phono preamp, then the preamp, now the power amp. If I stay the course, the only ones I'll left to deal with will be in my guitar amps. Heat has never been an issue for me, but th... | |
| Impact of Walker Audio Extreme SST I once bought a power conditioner on Audiogon and when I got it, noticed the presence of a whitish pasty substance in and around a few of the outlets, so I knew the seller had used something, and when I asked he said he'd treated his power plugs a... | |
| Soundproofing Doors at Home Depot Well yeah, if that's all you can do, the first thought into my head before I posted originally was simply to stuff a bath towel up under the door and maybe install a gasket -- but after perhaps experimenting with a towel, I like Russ' sandtube sug... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Thanks Albert. Not saying I either doubt or believe your hypothesis, but those tests as you describe them aren't sufficient to establish causality (they don't measure the datastream, and aren't controlled to eliminate psychology as a possible caus... | |
| Thiels or Von Schweikerts Larry, your room is exactly the size of mine, but my erstwhile small tube amp used a pair of EL34's per channel (in ultralinear, for a rated 45wpc) and my speakers are 2.2's. I agree the sound can be very nice, but in my experience some detail did... | |
| Soundproofing Doors at Home Depot No offense taken -- the light-duty suggestions aren't supposed to hermetically seal off the room, just cut down HF reverberation a bit, in keeping with CWL's expressed wish for ideas that A) are inexpensive and B) keep the present door intact. I a... | |
| Arthur Lee R.I.P. Earlier I wrote, 'Don't forget "False Start" either'. Would it be too disrespectful of Arthur's memory so soon after his passing if I amended that? Well, permission to forget granted -- after having spent the past few days spinning primarily Love,... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Anybody: I've never messed around with treating CDs in any way. But to those who've found a difference (good or bad) treating them with markers, how exactly should I go about this tweak if I want to experiment? I'll burn 2 copies of a test disk, t... | |
| cdp+outboard dac Yes, although if by "basic sound" you mean whether the same machine's sound *as a CD player* can be considered determinative, then I'm not sure how much correlation there is in that sense. But just in general, transports -- including players used ... | |
| Soundproofing Doors at Home Depot Another approach could be to put a carpet runner in the hallway that extends under the door, and maybe a decorative textile hanging (with some thickness and weight to it, not a linen) on the listening room side of the door itself. | |
| Thiels or Von Schweikerts Mjaudio wrote:"Thiel makes a quality speaker but make sure you realize they really are high maintenance and don't like to be fed anything other than the best sound quality CD's"Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but:A) As an owner I certainly d... | |
| Thiels or Von Schweikerts Tom: We don't know if that applies as a blanket statement. Say Rustler's room is on the smaller side, he listens mostly to small-group acoustic music, and he gets a pair of 1.6 -- in that case a nice tube integrated may be all he would ever want o... | |
| Anyone Compared the Olive Opus to the Zero One? Do these units have internal ADCs, and if so how do they sound for dubbing vinyl? |