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| What about the subwoofer? Well, you are using the integrated amp as an "amplifier" left/right outputs of your AVR. So you would still be able to take a high-level tap off the speaker outputs of your integrated and use that for the subwoofer. Like I said, the left/right ... | |
| What about the subwoofer? You never want to use a Y-cable to do this. What happens is the voltage coming out of the AVR will feed back into the integrated amp and can damage those audio circuits. If this is the direction you are going in, what you really need is a mixer... | |
| What's the difference between Component processor and AVR receiver? The DSP/processing technology is generally shared among the same line of products (i.e. all Marantz AVR receivers and AV processors will generally have the exact same DSP/firmware and possibly the same DSP boards). However, the processors will... | |
| Musings on Switching Power Supplies (LPS for Oppo / DirecTV/ Radiance) I don't read this forum anymore, but willing to respond to this. As far as SMPS power supplies go, they can be decent. The "measured" noise of these power supplies can be very excellent and the audio performance can be good. However, I have li... | |
| Time to upgrade AV Receiver Curious question. If you already have a Monolith amplifier, why are you looking for an AV "receiver"? A preamp/processor would be better. The Marantz processors have some of the most natural sounds since they use discrete analog output stages, ... | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? Since I cannot post in message, try this link for the photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cgWrZqVL6u1M791P9 hope that works. At this point, I would use a single 10,000uf 50V Nichicon KW add-on for each of the three power supply sections. | |
| 5.1+ Processors with Best DACs/Preamps? There's a Parasound P7 multi-channel balanced pre-amplifier on ebay. I'm not sure that this is the level you are looking for, but it's a fully analog linear power supply 8 channel preamp. | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? Actually the opposite is often the case. Nothing could be more inefficient than a Class A power supply. @cleeds - I assume you are meaning this as a joke. 99% of all computer power supplies are switching power supplies (the most efficient typ... | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? In terms of the PSU itself, I don’t think that will impact sound quality. Because it’s a computer, not an audio component. All good DACs will pre-filter the USB input from any noise over USB, so that’s not a concern. I disagree with this based... | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper what do you recommend - join 8 x 20 AWG solid core strands to get 11 AWG, or join 5 x 18 AWG to get 11 AWG @sasho - if you are using Neotech teflon coated, I would recommend 20 awg. The 18 awg can start to lose high frequency response/resolutio... | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper Audioquest uses "true solid core" in a lot of their wires (but not everything). Kimber uses "pseudo solid core" or almost solid core. It actually a stranded conductor that uses only about 7 relatively thick strands per bundle. It's still strand... | |
| PC Audio Switcher I am assuming he wants to change the audio source in the Control Panel "Sounds" section. A few ideas: https://superuser.com/questions/426293/keyboard-macro-to-change-default-audio-device https://audioswit.ch/er https://www.addictivetips.com/wi... | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? "Euphony OS for Windows" does not actually run in Windows. They just have a "Euphony Downloader for Windows" which can be used to download and written to a USB device as a "bootable device". Euphony is Linux operating system that is similar in w... | |
| Need Help Optimizing PC Audio I am kind of jumping in on this late, but I do have a couple comments. If you want to use your PC to do all sorts of audio/video output (including Atmos and stuff), it's best to keep HDMI output. If you wanted only 2-channel stereo, there are ot... | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? Oh, I have tried working with Fidelizer and it did weird things to the sound. I think using the stock configuration in Windows is best, but there are a lot of people who think Fidelizer does good things. I have also heard that trying these expens... |