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| Using Cardas 3455R Male/IEC AC plug versus Furutech AC plugs I looked at the Cardas as an option. However, the Cardas used silver in the plating (copper that is plated with Rhodium over Silver). My own preference is not to use silver in my components, so I went with Furutech, which is just rhodium plated... | |
| Listening room questions I would call that room more like 10 x 15 just by sight, but it will be interesting to see who is more "visually" accurate, lol.Window glass is a hard surface and can generally cause a beaming effect in the upper mids/highs when the waveforms "plan... | |
| Quality of outlet not directly powering equipment important? Based on my R&D with outlets and power cord connectors, I am going to theorize that outlets #1 and #2 are going to have very little (if any at all) influence on the sound. You have a GTX-D Rhodium for outlet #3, which will really clean up the ... | |
| Power Cables for Krell FPB300 I’ve got Emotiva XPR-1 amps, which also use the rare 20A IEC (C19) connector. I don’t know if Krell does anything special with their power cords, but I’m going to assume it’s a generic 12awg or 10awg cord (nothing special like OCC or exotic types)... | |
| Owens Corning 703 vs. Roxul Safe 'n' Sound? One thing to know about the acoustic materials is that you need massive amounts of thickness if you want to absorb a lot of the lower bass frequencies. Yes, putting a space behind the fiberglass will help because the sound will bounce off the wall... | |
| Preamp for music and home theater for under $3500 Just so that you know:https://www.oppodigital.com/hra/dsd-by-davidelias.aspx The Oppo will support sending DSD signals over HDMI, but only if you use the HDMI 2 port on the Oppo -- and as long as your AV processor will decode DSD from HDMI. | |
| Preamp for music and home theater for under $3500 First thing to know is that SACD (i.e. DSD audio bitstream) cannot be filtered. This means that you cannot apply DSP to the SACD/DSD audio such as EQ, phase, crossover, etc. Any 2-channel SACD disc is going to have to be played full range with onl... | |
| Fuse and Power Cable improvements 'how'? - Nuprime ID-8 @alpha_gt - while I agree that two different 10awg cables will still be able to flow the same amount of current, one thing that is not looked at here is how fast the amp is able to pull that current from the A/C line. In my testing with power cor... | |
| Owens Corning 703 vs. Roxul Safe 'n' Sound? @bdp24 - that sounds great. Let us know how the panel works out. My Roxul Rockboard 80 and Guilford of Maine fabric are coming today, so I'll be working on building some panels this weekend to replace my cheap foam ones. I'm excited. | |
| Where to put budget One more comment. The things I suggested above can also be used in the 20x28 room, so the expense would not be wasted.A couple recordings I can suggest (available in Hi-Res at HD Tracks):Meloday Gardot - Lisboa (from album The Absence). The chime ... | |
| Where to put budget First thing, I don’t think the system is overkill for the room. I think you have some excellent electronics and speakers to enjoy!! The two downsides I can see are the quality of your subs and the room. The SVS subs at $499 each are probably going... | |
| Owens Corning 703 vs. Roxul Safe 'n' Sound? At $47 for a 12-pack, you can just stack them up in the back of the room to see how it will affect the sound. They 15-1/4" are cut to fit between house frames. If you don’t mind putting up 3 panels instead of 1 or 2, it can be a cheap way to go. T... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables @stringreen - sorry, I am still using double-runs of 12awg stranded OFC copper for speaker wire (basic monster cable or stuff from Monoprice - or any equivalent source). I find this excellent and neutral speaker wire. It is actually much better th... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables Sorry, I have not tried out the NES-3002 yet. It might be a while (maybe next year) before I get time/money to try it. I'm working through some room acoustic experiments right now (diffusion panels, membrane bass traps, etc.).The NES-3002 is a 9... | |
| Owens Corning 703 vs. Roxul Safe 'n' Sound? Try the ATS Acoustics website. You can get two 24" x 48" x 2" panels with Guilford of Maine fabric for $129. ATS is in Illinois and I'm in California. Shipping to me would only be $24.02 for these two panels. I don't know what it would be to y... |