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| Large Advents (1974) woofer pops with deep bass. I had a pair of Large Advents of the same vintage and the woofers required repair about 20 years ago.. I'm surprised your woofers lasted this long. Send both woofers in for repair and you will be fine. If you want to keep them until you die the S... | |
| At this level of high(er) end audio why not offer balanced connections? Unless you are going to reach out to the marketing and engineering department of every high end audio manufacturer that doesn’t offer balanced connections every answer you get is a speculation. The reason is going to be somewhat different for each... | |
| Dedicated circuits Excellent discussion and very informative. I am in the early stages of building a house and I've been researching the electrical options for my dedicated listening room. I'm certainly no expert but here are a few things that I think I've learned a... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Thanks to bdp24 for a patient, thorough explanation. I would add a couple of related points (For the record, I have a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers that were designed to be time and phase coherent). At the PNW Audio Fest I attended a talk by Andrew ... | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! Thanks for the Alpha Audio link. Will require further study but I've wondered why this hasn't been done before. | |
| Streaming I'll add to brunomarcs suggestion. I was going to say something similar but he beat me to it. First, check to see if your CD player has a digital input for accessing the DAC. It is most likely an RCA (coax) digital input or a optical input called... | |
| BluSound Node and Node 2 Thanks to the OP for the post. I had been considering a Node but based on the information in this thread I'll probably go another direction. Regarding the high rating on Amazon, I take that with a grain of salt because most people leave their rat... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? You are correct but my point still stands. Krell amps are better than pretty much anything on the market when it comes to supplying current to low impedance loads and the increase in distortion is negligible at lower impedances. Krell and other b... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? This is an interesting exchange that addresses one of the most important aspects of high end audio: how amplifiers and speakers interact. So I'm going to keep going at the risk of being "outgunned," In my world facts and evidence are more importan... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? @invalid First, when I took in my Krell for rebuild I hooked up a few integrated amps and receivers that I had on hand just to see how they would sound. It was unmistakable that these amps produced a different frequency response than my Krell. Spe... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? I have to disagree with atmasphere on the issue of low impedance Wilsons doing fine with tube amps. Any speaker that has a demanding impedance curve will not give a flat (to the best of its ability) frequency response if it is not driven by an amp... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? At a given impedance, say 8 ohms, the current of the amplifier is directly related to the specified wattage. If your speakers are rated at a flat 8 ohms across the frequency spectrum, more watts equals more amps, i.e. current. The issue becomes m... | |
| Joni Mitchell remasters on the way I have the full set of Joni's remastered HDCD titles (including Court & Spark and Hissing) and they sound very good. It will be interesting to compare the new versions on Qobuz with the HDCD versions. Thanks for the tip, hilde45. | |
| Streamer? Aurender's "caching streaming" ? how important is this feature? I have a PS Audio PerfectWave MkII DAC which has a buffering and reclocking feature they call a "Digital Lens." I'm not sure what the cashing feature on a streamer would do for me. It might be cheaper to get a DAC with a buffering feature than to ... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer If you haven't done this already I would suggest that you compare a streamed album with one that you have ripped in FLAC. See if there's any difference in sound using your current setup. In my case I have ripped my CD library (over 4k titles) int... |