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| Replace PS Audio DLIII + Pass Preamp With Directstream Jr? Yeah, that’s a definite concern. The DSJ really acts like a DAC chip with no smoothing analog circuits. More of a stepped square wave format you see on the output side of DAC chips (it’s really just DC voltage output at different levels). You real... | |
| Anthem Statement A2 Power Amp Yeah, sorry. I totally missed your restricted space requirements. The smaller Parasound A23 is 13-1/4" deep. It's less power and less refined than A21, but keeps the Parasound sonic signature. | |
| Anthem Statement A2 Power Amp I really asked so that others know what you are working with. I don't have direct experience with Anthem, but I can give you my thoughts.The Anthem products have been stated as being excellent products. Reading a lot, the Anthem A2 tends to be t... | |
| Anthem Statement A2 Power Amp What amplifier are you coming from? What kind of sound are you trying to get? | |
| Replace PS Audio DLIII + Pass Preamp With Directstream Jr? I agree with matt that the sound will be different. In fact, it will be completely different.Your current rig is the DLIII Dac. This is an aging DAC, but it is very well designed with a very good power supply. It is a conventional DAC chip with a ... | |
| Newbie - Replacing front speakers & going 5.0! Advice needed :) I'm going to go out on a limb and theorize that it has to do with weight of the driver cone. The very large woofers (6-1/2" and larger) need to be able to reproduce the very low frequencies. This means they need to push a lot of air. The driver... | |
| Newbie - Replacing front speakers & going 5.0! Advice needed :) Crutchfield has some Silver 8 and Silver 10 speakers for 15% discount plus free freight shipping. These are the previous generation.The new generation appears to have these improvements:"The highlight of the new Silver series is a completely new v... | |
| Newbie - Replacing front speakers & going 5.0! Advice needed :) Oh, one thing you could do if you match the Silver 300 with the Bronze midrange is to increase the volume of the center channel by one or two steps in your receiver configuration so that the center channel is "pushing" the vocals a little more to ... | |
| Newbie - Replacing front speakers & going 5.0! Advice needed :) My opinions in matching front channels are really to make the PERFECT home theater. I don't even completely have this in my system.I was previously running B&W HTM2 D2 (with 6" midrange) for center and 805D2 bookshelves (WITHOUT midrange) for... | |
| Two preamps are available.... Guys, that was just a general statement. Obviously , boutique manufactures such as McIntosh will put a lot more effort into re-certifying and working to present "refurbs". I did not now which particular preamp the OP was looking at. There are s... | |
| Help after my recap, my tweeter is faint and reserved part II That is quite possible. I have no experience with the Jantzen Z caps, which appear to be metallized polypropylene. However, there are some electrolytic capacitors (such as the Nichicon KW) that will be very weak and sound bass-shy when they are ... | |
| My Home Speakers, My Car, and Me...The Ballad of What's Going Wrong? I would first look at putting in the absorption panels. Twelve 1' x 1' panels are not a lot. A standard size 24" x 48" panel is equal to about 8 of those. It's better then nothing, though. It may help cut down some of the slap echo. Check out... | |
| AV Receiver w/ amplifier Question - does the receiver itself shutdown? Or does the circuit breaker flip on the main electrical box? | |
| Newbie - Replacing front speakers & going 5.0! Advice needed :) I will have to agree to disagree with Erik here. While many love room correction, I have not had good results with it. I have worked with super high end Dirac Live processors as well as low-cost receivers. In either case, the audio just sounds mor... | |
| My Home Speakers, My Car, and Me...The Ballad of What's Going Wrong? Have you tried turning off the Linn "Space Optimization" room correction? I had the opportunity to work with DiracLive room correction in my system. It did weird things to the frequency response as well as the phasing. The result was that the a... |