zd542
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| How to get HIGHEST-rez signal into my dac from a BRP "I'm willing to buy a Blu-ray player BUT only for access to the hi-rez audio they carry ( improved video is secondary)"That's not always a good idea. One of the reasons so many people walk away from high rez is that they buy a cheap player to get ... | |
| Anyone else ever experience electrical dropouts? "Whats going on here? I noticed about a year ago that my signal would drop out when I would walk across a particular part of my listening room."Stop walking across that spot. | |
| Audio repair in New York State "03-22-15: ElevickBit of a hike but Audio Classics in Vestal can fix almost anything."Those guys are very good. Also try Longplayer Stereo in Goshen. If its a job that he can't do, he may be able to recommend someone local. | |
| Audio Research VT 100 MKIII "03-21-15: Sksos1I understand the MKIII is a LOT simpler to bias, anyone have how the MKIII gets biased?"If I remember correctly, the Vt-100 has one bias adjuster for each channel. That means you set the bias for all the tubes in a channel at the ... | |
| What Pre/Pro do you recommend? "I'm curious..is high end 2 channel achievable using a high end sub with bass management through a pre-pro? I know this is subjective...but what are the opinions regarding this?Krelldog (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)"It's not the sub t... | |
| Is my preamp useless? "03-22-15: GeorgelofiAll I can say to this is, in the OP's case, how can $10k worth of electronics in the signal path with way too much gain + another set of interconnects, sound better that no preamp and interconnect at all. "Al I can say about t... | |
| Is my preamp useless? "03-22-15: Onhwy61It's not really accurate to draw a conclusion about whether Nelson Pass thinks active preamps are the best solution for most systems just because the company with his name offers that type of product. At one point point Pass Labs... | |
| Has biwire speaker cabling become "old" ? "03-22-15: Jl35Wondering Wolf if Alan told you why he has biwire connectors on the speakers if they specifically should Not be biwired..."To biamp. | |
| Is my preamp useless? "The OP has way too much gain as he has to lower the PSA volume (which could then be bit stripping), but is also in the negative volume on the BAT volume, which means it's not pre-amplifying but de-amplifying, which a total waste of source signal ... | |
| Audio Research VT 100 MKIII "Is the amp worth much on the used market? How was it's reliability?"I've seen several VT-100's list here on AG at pretty reasonable prices. You may want to consider a Mk1 or 2. I'm not a big fan of the 6h30's myself, and you may find that you lik... | |
| Is my preamp useless? "What could be better? Hardly any noise or distortion added by these simple passive parts. No feedback, no worrying about what type of capacitors – just musical perfection.And yet there are guys out there who don’t care for the result. “It sucks t... | |
| Parasound Zamp v.3 Runs Too Hot You could get another amp just like the one you have and bridge them. | |
| Mixing 4 and 8 ohm speakers As long as you can adjust the gain individually for each channel with you processor, you should have no problems. You still have to make sure the amp is up to the task of driving all the speakers, but you have to do that with every system. Your HP... | |
| Sound Advice: 'Cost no object' on audio gear? "03-21-15: GeoffkaitZ Man, that's an old wives tale. Sorry to burst your bubble, Bubba. Lol. I know what you're thinking, they go to a two week training course on how to set up the expensive TVs. "I'm not guessing on that one. Not saying that ever... | |
| What Pre/Pro do you recommend? "03-21-15: Bob_reynoldsBased on the picture of your room (fairly narrow and low ceiling), room modes will become an issue at higher frequencies than in larger rooms. So even with music you'll likely have problems. You can find room mode calculator... |