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| REMINDER: tighten up your loose screws Good reminder!Rather than hand tightening driver screws until they "snug firmly" (without knowing if the screws are equally tightened), match their tightness using a torque screwdriver.Even better, reach out to your speaker manufacturer to ask the... | |
| RCA vs XLR and Balanced vs Unbalanced @bgchz, before you decide where to locate your components, buy and read Jim Smith’s “Get Better Sound”. He has a section on this topic. Jim Smith’s profession is setting up and consulting on residential and commercial high end audio rooms and reco... | |
| RCA vs XLR and Balanced vs Unbalanced @atmasphere is the oracle on this topic. If you’re not aware of Ralph Karsten (@atmasphere), he designs and builds Atma-Sphere balanced preamplifiers and amplifiers:atmasphere9,836 posts03-22-2013 9:05amA good reason to go balanced is the advantag... | |
| Isolation Feet Recommendation for Equipment Rack A/V Room Service EVPs are another option. Jim Smith, author of "Get Better Sound" approves of them.Available in 2" or 4" squares (your 150lb loaded rack would require four 4" high density EVPs), or in custom EVP platforms.Absolute Sound Editors Ch... | |
| Isolation Feet Recommendation for Equipment Rack You might try Townshend Support Corners if you don’t need to constantly move the rack. | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? If one is offered an opportunity to hear multiple brands/models of a component in the same room/system (in this case a streamer) keeping all other elements unchanged, then yes, one could potentially hear differences among those streamers. That’d b... | |
| Have you moved away from full range to standmount speakers + subs? Buchardt S400 MK II are excellent speakers, but at 88dB/4 ohms, they’re not an ideal match for a LM 845 P SET amplifier. For an SET amplifier you want speakers with high sensitivity (above ~93dB) and a flat impedance curve that ideally averages 6 ... | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? Ever notice how someone will form an argument by twisting up some pretzel logic based on something that was never stated?It’s called a straw man. And here, folks, we have a classic straw man; stating it was written in this thread that attending au... | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? You can’t compare components at an audio show. It’s impossible to hear an unfamiliar system and separate out the affect one component has on what you’re hearing.The best you can do is spend time in rooms that have components you are interested in ... | |
| On Hearing and Sensory Adaptation @mijostyn I forgot to mention. Etymotic, the company that makes Hi fidelity ear buds makes tunes ear plugs for musicians that dampen the volume without changing frequency response. Great product.Great suggestion.We have been using Etymotic High Fi... | |
| Balanced XLR cables @atmasphere is the oracle on this topic. If you’re not aware of Ralph Karsten (@atmasphere), he designs and builds Atma-Sphere balanced preamplifiers and amplifiers:atmasphere9,836 posts03-22-2013 9:05amA good reason to go balanced is the advantag... | |
| Cost Effective System Improvement? A cost effective improvement would be implementing some room/speaker/system set-up and optimization tips offered by Jim Smith in "Get Better Sound". $37.70 plus tax and shipping.You may discover you don’t need to spend anything on new equipment or... | |
| How Do You Learn? @chorus You say the book costs nothing, please elaborate.Please forgive my imprecise language.To be clear, the book, which costs $37.70 plus tax and shipping, is filled with tips and suggestions that cost nothing additional other than one’s time.N... | |
| How Do You Learn? Jim Smith’s "Get Better Sound". Filled with tips and suggestions that will improve a system, and cost nothing but one's time. Should be a companion piece to Harley’s book. | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max btw, agree with @tvad on the pass at reno hifi... no brainer for sq - question is whether 30 wpc will do the trick.RE: 30W power output...Pass Labs amps deliver power well beyond their rating. This is an aspect of all their amps.Here is a measurem... |