carlsbad2
Responses from carlsbad2
| The Streamer-Dac-Preamp Chain I strongly recommend skipping the preamp and putting your money into a streamer DAC. Does the Auralic play well with Roon? I am a huge fan of the Grimm MU1 streamer which also works as your Roon core. The Grimm MU2 came out and you can find go... | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out @gareents I've seen what test pilot said. But smoke is not normal. I put a wrong tube in an amp, blew a resistor, replaced it and was making music again the next day (had to order the resistor). In this instance, the burning smell was more noti... | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out Sounds like a simple tube failure except smoking? where was the smoke coming from? did you put a new tube in and confirm the amp is good? Jerry | |
| Class A\B or D for summer months (vs Class A) If you are used to class A, it is hard to be happy with anything else. teh marketing literature will always say that it is as good but my experience says otherwise. Most class A/B generate very little heat, yet they claim they operate in class A... | |
| SHIPPING speakers? @tomcarr I used to get my mail at a UPS store. So I was there most every day and watched them pack a lot of pacages. None for me as I do my own. What I saw was mostly overkill. they used larger boxes and more bubble wrap/packing materials that ... | |
| Chord Hugo TT2 adaptability Europe-to-USA power supply ? Good opportunity to upgrade to a nice power supply. I've used the Farad with Chord. Farad does a lot of work to power Chord products including buiding a special interface to replace the internal power supply for DAVE. I have the Farad Dave powe... | |
| SHIPPING speakers? Sell inexpensive speakers locally. Reading the other reply, seems they are only 60 lbs and of reasonable size. I would just pack them up and ship them with UPS or Fedex. I guess you don't have the original boxes. You can take them to a UPS... | |
| Be aware of a scam! The classic escrow scam is where a very normal sounding buyer suggest use of an escrow company and offers to pay for it themselves. they send you a link to a an escrow company. Usually it is a real escrow company. The problem is the link they s... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers @deep_333 Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel. Not being critical. Just giving you a hard time. I like your strong opinion on this. Jerry | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers @deadhead1000 The Wilsons I mentioned earlier are listed on Audiogon. I contacted the owner and he would be glad to have you over to listen. I have heard this system and it is spectacular. Steve is also a great guy. https://www.audiogon.com/li... | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? @lalitk I don't think anyone is now working on a version that fits into the fuse holder. I was the most interested in that and I've moved on. Like I pointed out, every IEC fuse holder is different so very hard to make one that works on every amp. | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? @thecarpathian I don't think so. but I'll give it more thought. The breakers in your panel are a combination of thermal and magnetic. The thermal component doesn't cause much problem because it is rated much higher so it doesn't act as a curren... | |
| Power supply for ethernet switch? Guy asks about changing the power supply on a switch that retails for $15.99 (including the power supply) and in less than a page we are recommending components that cost thousands of dollars. Audio at its best. | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers @deadhead1000 Steve at WBF is upgrading from a great pair of Wilsons. He is in Cote de Caza. | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers @viridian One of my pairs of floorstanders (which I use for my rear surrounds) I bought from a guy who was getting divorced and moving up to even bigger speakers. |