mlsstl
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| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? - that was a joke.Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes it's hard to tell. | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? How to make a flood?Not too hard to get flooded. The house can be too close to a river or other body of water or you can have a accumulation of surface waters from a heavy rain. Google "downtown houston floods" for some pictures of a major metropo... | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? Not to belabor the point too much, but things do happen. In looking at insurance claim statistics, there were over 400,000 house fires in 2008. Over the past 10 years, the average number of flood claims from outside water sources has been over 50,... | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? Try this perspective - at least with a hard drive system you can easily make a backup copy. You can do that with CDs, but it is a lot more time and work plus more storage space. As for vinyl, what's the game plan if you have a fire at your home or... | |
| Omni Speaker Options Duke - that was an excellent explanation. The only catch is that each person has their own set of priorities when it comes to the order they assign to various sonic characteristics. For one person, that sense of spaciousness may trump a loss of im... | |
| Omni Speaker Options Since you indicate you will be unable to audition in your room prior to purchase, the general rule of thumb for omnis is you want the listening room to offer a reasonable degree of symmetry between the left and right channels. There should be enou... | |
| Omni Speaker Options My only caution for an omni speaker is room interaction can be a bigger than normal issue since the speaker radiates in all directions. In some situations that can give a great sense of space while in others it can result in an uneven frequency re... | |
| Life expectancy of tube components Tube components do generally operate at higher voltages than transistor equipment, but in general I don't find a big difference in lifespan between the two types. There are too many other variables involved, such as the brand involved, owner useag... | |
| Reel to reel signal to noise ratios appear low?? The S/N ratio of an open reel is in the same general territory as LP playback systems. Even with CD, which ostensibly boasts a higher S/N ratio, the vast majority of recordings do not use anything close to the available dynamic range. Look at your... | |
| Harshness/Distortion Question - Newbie The simple test would be to play the record on another system of known quality and see if the poor sound quality is still present. If it is, you simply have a bad pressing. One of the sad realities of vinyl is there are a lot of poorly pressed rec... | |
| Logitech Duet vs. Dedicated Transport I have a SB3 that runs its digital out into a Lavry DA-10 DAC. I've got no urge to change to anything else. I sold my CD player a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.I've also got a Duet in a second system that runs analog out to the amp. ... | |
| Mod my B C DAC 3, or just get another DAC? Dpac996 makes an excellent point - how can one ascribe all audible differences between two DACs to a single factor, especially when the jitter figure differences between the two are fairly insignificant? While the word may conjur up a certain ment... | |
| Mod my B C DAC 3, or just get another DAC? Good luck on your search. However, I'm a little confused by the jitter comment. The BC3 reviews I've seen show very good performance but with some variability depending on input type. The Lavry is in the same range but varies less with source. Wit... | |
| Mod my B C DAC 3, or just get another DAC? Naturally, a higher level of resolution is amenable to that end, yet it should not be the spotlit attribute of a presentation. I listen for hours on end now and would wish that frame not be truncated by listening fatigue.I've always been a bit puz... | |
| Newer Spendor Floorstanders? I've owned both the S8e and S5e and have posted reviews of each in the Review section of Audiogon. If you're referring to the new A5 or A6, I haven't heard those yet but I'd suspect they'd firmly be in the Spendor tradition. FYI, I ended up settli... |