djones51
Responses from djones51
| Wet carpet under system I'm glad none of your equipment was ruined or anyone hurt from any electrical shock. Hopefully you can salvage the carpet and find where the water came in to prevent any future problems. I had a whole finished basement ruined because of water comi... | |
| High quality amplifier and network player >200W Used Micromega M100. Integrated A/B amp, DAC, streamer with built in DNLA support, Tidal, radio staions on the app, room correction. | |
| Wet carpet under system Oh sorry you said leak from rain the insurance company might call it flood damage , that happened to me once during a hard rain, insurance wouldn't pay squat. | |
| Wet carpet under system The pad needs to go the carpet might be salvaged. Call your insurance my mother’s paid for all new flooring after a water leak ruined some carpet and hardwood flooring. They also paid for a damage specialist company come suck the water up and fix... | |
| Break in blues I can understand that jtcf sometimes little changes are for the better sometimes not. I broke every rule I suppose I tossed a whole system together in about a month. New speakers, DAC, integrated amp , streamer, cables only thing I still use is my... | |
| Break in blues I am not exempting speakers since the manufacturer told me the most change I would notice and what takes the longest is the way I hear their speakers. I just turn it on and enjoy. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound I just don’t understand , I have a McIntosh that came with cord so thick and heavy I have it supported because it will slightly sag at the amp connection. Perhaps all amp manufacturer’s don’t supply good quality cords but I would think a good repu... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound The point is not me but why would ARC who sells world class amps toss in a power cord that isn’t going to make me go WOW when I hook it into my system. Instead I say , Blah, I need a power cord these chintzes gave me a lousy cord fit for a coffee ... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound So ARC sells good amps and tosses in a cable as an afterthought. Great marketing strategy. | |
| What's the deal with all the spam lately? Spam, spam,spam, egg and spam. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound So Audio Research promotes using high quality cable yet provides cables that are not sufficient for the needs of their equipment? Interesting.that ARC would not provide the highest quality since they place so much emphasis on cabling. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Does Audio Research provide power cords with their products ? | |
| Difference between ESS Sabre Burr Brown Wolfson DACs @tparr I have an experience similar to yours I own an older Onkyo CDP that uses the Wolfson 8742 chip and a new Benchmark DAC3B that uses the ESS 9028PRO and I find the Benchmark presets more detail especially in classical and Jazz than my old Onk... | |
| Break in blues I have completely rebuilt my system within the last month the latest component being a DAC I added a few days ago. It already sounds wonderful to me so I guess my ears and brain have broken in to the sound characteristics. If you forget the extran... | |
| Streamer always on? I thought it might mr_m. The reason I put mine in vacation mode is there might be a couple of days go by when I don't use it , I still spin CD's and sometimes I would have to power cycle it anyway to reset the ip address. |