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| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? The Oppo does use a switching power supply for the digital board. Some of this switching noise could be making it into that COAX (if you are using the Oppo as a Transport). The toslink fiber cable electrically disconnects the DAC from the transpor... | |
| Do I need a preamp/processor? @blindjim - I see that you are really pushing the idea of a AVR Receiver. I don’t think this is really in autre’s best interests as he already has a Red Dragon S500 amp. If he is wanting to improve the sound, I would suggest a dedicated HT Process... | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? How long is the Cardas COAX? If it's too short, you could be experiencing signal reflections back to the spdif transmitter. I have also experienced differences in quality of toslink cables. The cheaper ones will have a single plastic mono-filam... | |
| Picking an amplifier The Marantz SR6011 is a receiver. I would not recommend spending you money on a receiver since you bought that MC50 amp. That's when I was recommending a "one size fits all" item for under $1,000. Since you bought a nice MC50 multi-channel amp,... | |
| Suggest a new amp/preamp/Dac streaming combo @willemj - It is entirely possible that scott69 would be fine with a laptop transport. It entirely depends on your sound quality threshold and whether or not you can hear the difference in your system. With the very warm sounding B&K amp, it... | |
| Krell HTS 7.1 Decoding & Firmware @sgtshultz - I would post this question in the computer forum. I would recommend looking for something that has a digital COAX output. I used to own an HTS 7.1. The preamp section is very nice, but it is somewhat on the soft side (due to the op... | |
| Picking an amplifier those 1/8" audio outputs are stereo line outputs and will need something like this:https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=666 or this:https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5598 See page 1-22 of your MOBO manual. The lime/green jack outputs the l... | |
| Picking an amplifier Did you get your MCA 50 amplifier yet? How does it sound? | |
| Picking an amplifier I would go for the Yamaha in these two options. The Anthem runs only from a switching power supply. The Yamaha at least uses a linear power supply for analog sections (it still looks like a switching power supply for digital sections, which is v... | |
| Suggest a new amp/preamp/Dac streaming combo I think dedicated network players are going the way of the Dodo, just as dedicated wordprocessors once did (remember those?). After all, each time a new service is introduced, either the service provider or the player manufacturer will have to dev... | |
| Picking an amplifier Found a better spdif card:http://www.triplemaudioshop.nl/index.php/pink-faun-spdif-bridge.html It's about $350 USD though. lol. | |
| Rate my system and chose the next upgrade @dhpeck - the Klipsch speakers are not that bad in general. They are usually extremely efficient. However, they are horn based speakers, which you will either like or dislike as they have their own type of sound. Some people love horn based spe... | |
| Open Floor Plan Listening Room Actually, thinking about it, you really don't want any phase adjustment on the subwoofer, so don't worry on whether the sub has one. You want the sound to come out of the sub at the same time as the Apogee. However, you want the subwoofers at a ... | |
| Open Floor Plan Listening Room I would also look at the SVS PB12-Plus subwoofer. It's close to the same price as the REL T9i. However, it is significantly heavier/larger (cabinet bracing) and will play a lot lower. I don't know how the REL vs. SVS really compares, but I woul... | |
| Room Acoustics Actually, his room only has two areas of problem nodes in the bass area:https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc?l=13&w=12.5&h=6.5&ft=true&r60=0.6 Two lower nodes at 43Hz and 45Hz, which are going to be very hard to deal with unless you ... |