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| Which power cord should you buy first @salc trying is the only way to find out. Everything matters. However based on my experience, I follow a simple rule as I proved over and over it works every time - start from speakers and go up the chain - speaker cables, amp power cord, intercon... | |
| No bass on B&W 800D2 @oneofew +1 that’s why I asked the OP for room size, speaker placement details and listening chair distance to speakers. To move the woofers on those B&Ws, which is what you need to produce the bass you can feel, you need current. And the 200... | |
| No bass on B&W 800D2 Can you provide room dimensions, distance from speaker to wall, speaker to speaker and speaker to listening chair? Use center of tweeter to measure distance. | |
| No bass on B&W 800D2 The 800 have bigger cabinets, bigger woofers, they go down to 3ohm (802 dip into 3.52ohm). All the symptoms you’re describing mean your 200w per channel Classe amp does not have the juice to drive these speakers properly. I had N803 way back when ... | |
| Streamer for LTA Aero I have the N200 feeding Bricasti M3. I used it with PS Audio DSD MkI and Chord Hugo TT2 and Marantz SA-10 as well. The N200 is optimized for USB. and you can’t go wrong with it. I never compared N200 to N150 but if you think you will get essential... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @wolf_garcia when I like the the sound of non broken in cables more, as soon as I think they broke in I reverse them (if it’s RCA) and run them for as many hours as it took to break them in. That restores the cables to the original state. But thi... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @ozzy I stand corrected. Somehow I thought if the preamp is in standby there will be current flow because some of the circuits are kept alive in the preamp but no. I just measured the interconnects with my integrated and there’s zero magnetic fiel... | |
| Interconnect Break In? Explain please @ozzy if the cd player is playing it outputs signal thru the interconnects. If you don’t hear it because the preamp is off it doesn’t mean the signal isn’t flowing. If a tree falls in a forest and no one’s around to hear it, does... | |
| dCS Mosaic Vs Roon Nucleus Plus - Titan I don’t have experience with Mosaic but I compared Roon to several native apps While Roon is unbeatable when it comes to UI/UX, it falls short sonically in most cases when compared to streamer apps and proprietary processing. I also highly dou... | |
| Fosi V3 Mono Break-In jasonbourne71 1,133 posts 10-11-2024 at 12:12pm Remarkable performance for not much money! Look out all you makers of four and five-figure amps! Yep. Pass Labs, Audio Research, McIntosh, Boulder etc have been locked up in their situa... | |
| Bluesound mode not really cutting it TMR has a Bryston BDA-3.14 streaming DAC. The Manic Moose interface is a POS but the Bryston is Roon ready. Load Roon on your home computer and use the BDA as a Roon end point. Bryston DAC sounds smooth, laid back and has plenty of warmth. Exactly... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @ghdprentice a note on your approach. The preamp to amp signal, unless you’re cranking it up, is much lower voltage than source to pre which is typically 2v rca and around 4v xlr. Running preamp at low volume to break in the ICs between pre and am... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @ddrave44 the preamp does not need to be on for the cables between cdp and pre to break in because the signal is flowing from your cd player or streamer and passes thru the output interconnects whether your preamp is powered on or not. This is the... | |
| Interconnect Break In? It’s never without you adjusting to new sound but it’s not the only component involved here. Allowing the cable to settle is also important Try making a change, listen for an hour then let it all play and come back the next day. Evaluate. Then ... | |
| Backing up my playlist…. Creating several versions of the same playlist is all you need. As a side note, even if you cancel / pause your subscription to Qobuz the playlists remain as long as you don’t delete your account. |