lemonhaze
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| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? There seems to be many saying large speakers will overdrive a room which I disagree with. A room properly sorted with regards to acoustic treatment will allow any speaker to perform at its best. If a large bass driver will 'overdrive' a room then ... | |
| 10 gauge power cord. Too much power for tube amp? As others have mentioned, it is not the power cable. Also tubes are surprisingly robust and will tolerate more abuse than any MOSFET. You could use a PC that's has a greater cross-section than 10AWG without any problems, in fact could reasonably... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Hi Tony, Thanks for the considerate and detailed reply. I have sent you a message. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Hi Tony, your set up and room looks great which I'm sure is very rewarding. I hear what you are saying about progress and it to this end I needed to do a sanity check so compared my Wadia to some supposedly top DACs. Some I heard that I thought mi... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation Harmonic Technology Pro9+, uses solid core OCC Cu. These sound great but were too short when I renovated our living room, so I temporarily replaced them with some cheapo junk cables. They were so bad I bought some Duelund 12AWG in cotton the right... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? It depends. Listening for differences on any component will not be obvious or even heard if there are no room treatments in place and also the quality of the rest of the system. @ghdprentice... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing Interesting thread. I have a Bryston BDP-1 and nothing but trouble. Mains transformer burned out. On the advice of Bryston USA sent it to the Bryston agents in the UK who's performance was pathetic and received it back months later in some tatty p... | |
| Getting 2 subs so is it ok to get 2 different size subs to cover a wider spectrum of bass or get 2 matching subs? To directly answer your question rather than blathering on about unrelated matters: Yes it's OK. The brand does not have to match nor the size. I... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong Not one response from the OP. Please stop feeding this, this ... person. He is totally ducken refickulous. | |
| New R2R DAC If you will consider a used unit then an old Wadia will provide redbook performance to beat just about anything. My 30 year old Wadia 15 plays redbook only, using the famous Burr Brown PCM63 chip, regarded by some as probably the best ever. I hav... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... One of the few things nearly every audiophile agrees about is that you can't make the signal better than the original. I do think you are missing the point. Yes, we all agree with the above statement, to expect 'better' is folly. OK you have yo... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations If you can find a pair of Harmonic Technology Pro9 + used I think you will hear a substantial improvement. I have used the Neotech and Duelund 12AWG which I still own but have set aside because the HT-Pro 9 simply and clearly outperforms them. I ... | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears I don't take much notice of 'golden ears'. We all have different hearing including the golden eared and there is nothing special about them. Forget about the fact that your hearing is not flat and rolls off at about 10KHz, so what? You have 9 oc... | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears @mrskeptic excellent contribution! | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? @highend64, like most things in audio, it depends. Obviously class A amps will run hot so best not to leave on but Class AB can and IMO should be left on all the time. You'll probably remember the old incandescent light bulb that mostly failed o... |