greatwhitebat
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| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs The hole/thread is 1/4" - 20so I should be able to find that fairly easily. I'm looking around.and unfortunately I have carpet in this apartment, so I'm stuck with spikes. I'm also stuck with carpet, and carpet is a visual nightmare... even if it'... | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs Very interesting thread. is that Sketch up you are using? We use that when doing plans for furniture building (woodworking).I'm using some random free thing I found for mac called Sweet Home 3DI'm sure there are better things out there... even fre... | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs The stands came... but they lack the spikes. I can't believe it, but whatever... I'm done fighting with this seller and I'm just going to try to find some replacement spikes. I'll start making calls on that tomorrow... in the mean time they provid... | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs Here is a model of what my setup looks like within the room.This was quick (not quick at all... room layout programs are not as easy to use as I thought they would be) and dirty.Image 1Image 2 | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs He talks about the lack of bi-wiring on the 1C at length in this interviewBi-wiring is very inter-esting. We have been doing it now fortwenty years. Our smallest model, the 1Cis not bi-wired, and weÂre often asked whyis our littlest speaker not b... | |
| Buy? Used NAD 533 with RB250 and Goldring Elektra Yeah. This guy says $295 FIRM. I haven't contacted him, but the ad is still up. I'm expecting that he'll not be interested in coming down that far.I should probably ask this in a separate thread, but I'll just throw it out there:What do people thi... | |
| Buy? Used NAD 533 with RB250 and Goldring Elektra The new player + warranty does sound like a good dealI just don't really know enough about turntables to know which is better overall.I've been mostly digital most of my life. This will be my first serious foray into the analogue world. | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs You need 2 things to set your speakers up properly. The stands and the owners manual.I should have the stands by Friday Night, so I'll be doing a lot of that stuff when I get home.Once you get the speakers higher up on the stands and set the back ... | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs Finally the Vandersteen 1Cs have arrived... without the floor stands. I'm now attempting to get the seller to ship me the floor stands. It amazes me how incompetent this seller has been with this transaction overall. On the other hand, they sound ... | |
| Budget DAC Greatwhitebat, Apple TV converts 44.1kHz to 48kHz (native HD format) loosing sound quality on the conversion. Read this...This appears to only be the case when you are using airplay.I the only time I use airplay is when someone else is at my house... | |
| Budget DAC I've also been looking at Schitt BitFrosts.There's one on here without the USB and I'm pretty sure the USB is the least likely port for me to use because I'll be using an Apple TV with iTunes as my media server for most everything. I'm ripping all... | |
| Budget DAC Parasound ZDACI did find one for $249 on some discount audio site that claims to have a full warranty. It's definitely something to consider. I'll start reading reviews. | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs Well... at the moment I'm not so sure I'll be getting the Vandersteens at all. The seller still hasn't shipped a week later and has been rather flippant and not terribly responsive. That isn't instilling me with a lot of confidence as to the condi... | |
| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs I've come to the conclusion that something like a Peachtree Decco65/Nova125, NAD D 3020, or Teac A-H01 would probably be the best solution for me at this point in time. I'll only need to add a phono stage for a turntable.In the future I would like... | |
| SPDIF out from TV to NAD 3020 D The output is PCM or DolbyDigital depending on the settings. I only want PCM. I just wanted to double check. |