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| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers A good strategy to deal with distortion is to match your speakers to your amp, room and volume preference. If you get that right, distortion shouldn't be an issue, tube or SS. | |
| Used 804 N or S vs New CM10 S2? "04-22-15: RyanwardWell, I went with the CM10's...I hooked them up yesterday with the Adcom amp. The Rotel 1090 will be here today so before I swap amps out I'll do a little listening and then swap and see how much of a difference the amp makes."T... | |
| Help with Pono? "04-21-15: TpyThanks to all for your suggestions. I was able to make it work by transferring from my music NAS to the pono disk without using the pono softward, as Cerrot suggested. Now all is fine."Good job Cerrot. You see, its not always necessa... | |
| Box box to Converter I'll just add one more thing. If you're using an mp-3 service and are enjoying it, you can still get better quality. You're not going to turn an mp-3 into a higher format, but like any other format, you can do things to make it sound better. For e... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Csontos,"Fact is their is consensus that tubes are distortion for the most part."Is this a secret consensus? Where can I look something like that up for myself? | |
| Simaudio Neo 400M vs. Parasound JC-1 "Any comments on the 400M's vs the JC1's ?"The only opinion that matters is yours. For something like this, you really need to demo the equipment before you buy it. | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers "04-21-15: CsontosWith all due respect Ralph, I am not aware of a 'warmth associated with real music(and tubes)' consensus. My take on it is simply a subjective preference over accuracy."I don't see how you can say one component is more accurate t... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Right now in my main system I have a Wadia 861SE going directly to 2 Ayre V-5's vertically bi-amped driving a pair of Vandersteen Model 2's. AQ IC's and Speaker cables. ESP Essence power cords. And a Furutech e-TP 80. I have other components I som... | |
| Box box to Converter "I understand that MP3 removes what all but very-veryyoung ears Hrz can detect+."If that's the conclusion you've come to, you may want to re-evaluate your system. Most people find it fairly easy to tell the difference."Part of MP3 is a compressed ... | |
| Box box to Converter It won't matter. Even if you convert the signal to WAV the sound quality will be the same. You can't get back what's not there. | |
| Coupling Banana Plugs "04-20-15: DenmanMonster used to have a model banana plug called the Exterminator that had a hole on its rear to piggyback another banana plug.I still have some,but they aren't for sale."They still make connectors like that but they won't work in ... | |
| amplifier for Tannoy With very efficient speakers you need something really clean or you may get some noise. For tubes, maybe a VAC Avatar, and for SS look at an Ayre CX-7 or a BAT 300ix. Whatever you decide to get, the preamp section of the integrated needs to be con... | |
| Help with Pono? To start off with, I assume that when you say you're trying to drag and drop files to your sd card, you're doing so while the sd card is in the Pono player. If that's the case, it would probably be easier to just remove the sd card from Pono, and ... | |
| Help with Pono? "04-19-15: TpyThanks. I know that Pono is compatible with my operating system."Even though its compatible with your OS, you still may need to install a file system. For example, Pono may use a file system called ext4. Your Mac doesn't support that... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Did you list your system? I didn't see in any of your posts? |