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| Suggestions on Pre Amp/Amp or Integrated Amp "tighter, punchier bass, clean power, room correction and more watts" A new receiver in the price range you list will definitely be a positive upgrade. If it was my choice to make, I would find a good used power amp, like a Bryston 3/4 or a Krell... | |
| Convert XLR to TRS Headphone Cable Issue hertzhead, I know you have been getting some conflicting information on all of this, so I'll try to clarify it for you. Cleeds went out of his way to throw insults, but not you so I'll try to help. The information in my post is correct. If you re... | |
| Convert XLR to TRS Headphone Cable Issue cleeds It never ceases to amaze me how when someone doesn't understand something they resort to insults. All you had to do was ask me to clarify my post. The silly thing is you don't have to take my word for any of it. Simply look at the schemati... | |
| Convert XLR to TRS Headphone Cable Issue When you are talking about balanced headphones and headphone amps, it's a marketing gimmick. There is no such thing. The people that make this stuff use the term balanced, put xlr connectors on the gear and hope you don't ask too many questions. H... | |
| HANA ML vs DYNAVECTOR 20X-2A I had the 10x5 and the 20 low output version. The 20 is a big upgrade. | |
| How much do you have to spend? The, "How much do I have to spend?", argument, sounds reasonable at first, but its almost a guaranteed fail. I know everyone has their theories and percentages, but if you really know what you're doing, you know it just doesn't work like that. If ... | |
| Do I need an expensive digital cable? "Can anyone make a case that I should buy a "better" coax cable?" Terms like better and expensive really don't mean much in this context, but I understand what you're asking. You can get a cable that sounds different than the one you currently ha... | |
| Goldenear….recent experience and lesson learned aquint, If they discontinued the speaker in 2023, they may still be under warranty. A good company buy's extra parts to service their equipment for years after it gets discontinued. I can still buy a new transport for my Ayre CD player that was d... | |
| RCA or XLR? I hate to come across as being negative but reading through these comments is disappointing. There's so much misinformation on this topic, I don't even know where to begin. I guess you can start by forgetting about the cables. Focus on what you ar... | |
| XLR Interconnect Causing Noise in One System but Not Another While its possible that the cable is bad, I don't think it's the problem. Set your DVOM to continuity and touch the test leads to the same pin on each end of the cable to find an open. For a short, put one test lead on one pin, then take to other ... | |
| Phono Stage with XLR outs If all of your equipment is fully balanced/fully differential, then just go balanced for the whole thing. Phono cartridges are inherently balanced, Most of the time they're just wired single ended. Another option is to get a fully balanced phono p... | |
| Best Entry Points to the B&W 800 Series Try getting a less expensive pair like the 805's first and see if you can live with the tweeter. There's a reason most of us have had B&W speakers, and not have them. I had the 805's, 802's, 800's, HTM and the Matrix HT system. Overall, they a... | |
| School me on surge suppression/power conditioning Power products can be risky. You never know what's going to happen until you plug them into your system and listen for yourself. The differences you hear can be big, small or nothing. And if there are differences, they're not always improvements. ... | |
| Realism in instruments how to achieve it? Everything in the system contributes to what you are talking about. My advice would be to not upgrade your system for a while. Get used to what you have. It easy to get caught up in all the big changes that came with your recent upgrades. Once the... | |
| The Worst Measuring Best Sounding DAC I think mapman has the best answer. We can't measure everything we hear. If you are new to all this, you have to be careful where you get your information from. The concept of high end audio offends some people to the core of their being. They get... |