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| Wadia 321 DAC, anyone have any experience with it? The case is huge for a DAC and almost too big for normal shelves depth-wise.On the flip side, most dacs are crammed into very small chassis, so it's really a personal preference. The DAC delivers as good or better performances than almost anything... | |
| Does Balanced Power Technologies still exist? I noticed that too. He had a good product, but I would suspect he's out now.Last I heard of him being at a show was with Steve Nugent of Empirical Audio. I know Underwoodwally used to sell his stuff, so either of those people may have better insid... | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. I did a similar thing a year or so ago after running warble tones through my system. I noticed that the 1.7 speaker structure on one channel would slightly resonate at a certain frequency/volume level. I used some Bright Star 10 pound weights that... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify I have both and there's no comparison in terms of sound quality. Tidal is a must if you are wanting true audiophile quality streaming.You do need to have a good Internet connection and a pc that is optimized for sound quality. I've only had one ti... | |
| Power Conditioner for your amplifier? General rule is to never plug an amp into a power conditioner. There are a few exceptions, but a well designed amp doesn't need power conditioning (at least nothing that most current third party providers offer).The more poorly designed power supp... | |
| Wadia 321 DAC, anyone have any experience with it? I have one and it's about as good a dac as I've heard, especially for the price.It's in the same league as all the reference dacs selling for 2-10 times as much. It's also a clear step up from the log jam at the $2k price tag.The NAD M51 can get f... | |
| Bad experience with Emotiva UMC-200 Did you have your cable box attached to the umc?Did you do a factory reset in the settings?When you hooked back up the receiver, I suspect you also stopped using the McCormack as an amp. Were they all plugged into the same outlet?I suspect your un... | |
| Amp recommendation for Magnepan 3.7's? Dsper, in order to get the attributes you mentioned, it will require more than just an amp.No matter what amp you use with a resolving speaker like Maggie's (and many others), you need to have a good source to deliver those attributes. Any source ... | |
| Amp recommendation for Magnepan 3.7's? I've had good success using autoformers with Maggies. It's actually not a tough speaker to drive if the low impedance is removed from the equation.McIntosh SS amps are a great match because they already include autoformers.Otherwise, you can get P... | |
| Belles 350a or Mccormack DNA -1 Deluxe? I'm having a DNA 125 modified right now by Steve.I also own a monoblock .5 and a stereo .5 that have Rev A platinum mods.I have used other amps in my 20+ years, but his are a no brainer. Once you buy one, you can have it for life because he consta... | |
| Cable Box Digital 5.1 converted to Digital Stereo If you're with Xfinity, the new One boxes do pcm. There is a product that will convert the bitstream to pcm, but I have no experience nor think it would work well.However, lookup an article by Frank Van Alstine who I believe used such a product. | |
| Cable Box Digital 5.1 converted to Digital Stereo Some cable boxes have the option to choose lpcm output. Get to your audio settings and give it a try with your dac.You may not have the option. | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Broadstone...if your pink noise test is coming exclusively from one speaker when out-of-phase, then you have some major issue in your system.Testing phase with pink noise phase is a very easy test that even non-audiophiles can identify. When out-o... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Running specific tones probably won't help you too much as already stated. However, I can tell you a couple things I do to A/B speakers and identify a variety of issues.1. Run pink noise through speaker A and then speaker B. You can probably hear ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers I run Zero's on all my speakers (Maggies) and they even help SS amps. On my other system, I use a SS McIntosh on my Wisdom speakers and that amp includes autoformers...so they don't just benefit OTLs.Personally, I haven't seen the problem that Ral... |