jaytor
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| Best place to live for good quality power According to my PS-Audio Power Plant, my incoming AC at my audio system (Portland, OR) is typically119.5-119.7 VAC with 2.2% to 2.3% THD. | |
| Totem Mani-2 vs Devialet Phantoms Gold I've owned the Mani-2s for about 15 years. I now use them in my workshop but they were in my main system for a while. The bass from such small enclosures is quite impressive But to achieve this low frequency performance, they are not very sensitiv... | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update @deep_333 - Yes, Alvin provides a link to the original firmware as well as the new updated firmware, so you can switch back if you aren't happy. | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson @donsachs @atmasphere - Thanks for your responses. My system is bi-amped with a SS amp driving the lower three octaves, so I'm primarily concerned about upper bass on up. I'm pretty happy with my current DIY 300B PSET monoblocks, but I... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson - First, let me state that I've really enjoyed your, Don's and Ralph's discussion of amplifier design and tradeoffs. I've been intrigued by Alan Wright's designs (I'm currently building a line stage preamp inspired by the RTP3D). You'... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? I liked my Pass XA60.8s (now gone) but they weren't quite as good as my PSET 300B monoblocks. | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update @liquidsound - I've been using the NOS mode over the last couple weeks. Before the update, I thought NOS was too dull sounding, but I'm liking the way it sounds now. However, I haven't done any critical listening since shortly after doing the upg... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? I think the quality of Delta-sigma DAC chips had gotten very good and will continue to subtly improve, but there is more to a really good DAC than these chips. Quality clocks, output stages, power supplies, enclosures, and even connectors, are qui... | |
| Couple of simple forum website suggestions @middlemass - this should not be necessary, and some of the websites I use for my work break when an ad blocker is used. Besides, I want this forum to continue and using an ad-blocker takes the revenue away from them necessary to maintain the site... | |
| 300b lovers @atmasphere - makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation. | |
| 300b lovers @atmasphere - If the input of the next component is balanced and not referenced to ground (e.g. transformer coupled), I don't understand why it is necessary to decouple the output in the source component from any ground reference to achieve the fu... | |
| Couple of simple forum website suggestions @lowrider57 - I understand the need for ads to support forums like this. Incentivizing users to install an ad blocker to get around less-than-optimal website design is truly a bad business decision on the part of Audiogon, particularly for somethi... | |
| SGC vs Roon Nucleus I am currently using a SGC i9 Optical and am very happy with it. I got it almost two years ago. Andrew has been helpful with fast responses when I had some questions. I was previously using a DIY i7 NUC in a fanless case running Roon ROCK. This ... | |
| Let the Games Begin There are a few key things left out of this analysis. But I should preface this "critique" by stating I'm a fan of digital music and no longer own a turntable or other purely analog source. This analysis assumes that the analog source signal has ... | |
| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet Another good place to look is an audio store local to me. The move a lot of used gear and have excellent deals. Echo Hifi |