koh_i_noor
Responses from koh_i_noor
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable Green Acres: I have the impression that the atmasphere device is super nice, but I don't want to spend that much money, so I am keeping an eye out for something less expensive. Ralph sez he is working on an integrated amp--presumably a one chassis... | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? For reasons so obvious they don't bear mentioning, Ralph has earned credibility with his products over decades. The endless essay writing challenging Ralph in seemingly every class D thread is tiresome, and I simply read all the atmasphere posts s... | |
| Blown Cap???What Else To Replace During Service??? Agreed with Ralph and the others on replacing electrolytics after a given age. I have had many successes with my gear with a magnifying class looking at caps for signs of heat, puffiness, or juice leaking out. Since I have a soldering iron and mou... | |
| Troubleshooting Audio Interference (Buzz/Hum/Static) I just went though this on my system. For mine, the noise was generated by the video card. I have a usb from the computer to a RME adi-2 dac. I tried ferrite beads everywhere, but no significant improvement. I had it in my mind that the video cabl... | |
| Update on good Ethernet switch For my home network, I use a managed tp link switch which is more expensive than unmanaged, as well as a mikrotik 24 port manged switch router. A couple of things about ethernet. The ethernet standard is that cat 5e cable will support gigabit up ... | |
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable I have given this some thought myself. I do have a bryston amp and pre-amp that are about 20 years old, and they are good enough for me. For DACs, I presume their technology is advancing quickly like computers and the value equation favors the cur... | |
| Class D amplifiers. What's the future look like? Given the filters and phase shift, does class d design lend itself to mathematical modeling? | |
| Testing Ethernet switch This is a bad addiction for me, ye old flame war. Better call my sponsor and quit this thread cold turkey. 😀 | |
| What’s the most underrated used Audio Research gear? SP 14, advertised as better than the sp-9, based on sp-15 technology. | |
| Testing Ethernet switch When you have more technical knowledge some things look obvious that others can’t see. For instance, if someone claimed the system sounded better if there was a 10 gallon vat of steaming split pea soup in the room, most would be skeptical, as we c... | |
| Class D amplifiers. What's the future look like? Ralph mentioned musical instrument amps. I have a 700 watt class d quilter for bass, and it does the job. I think digital for guitar is very much a debate. I think for clean sounds class d is great. The nuance of an overdriven marshall is the sort... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles I think the arc financial problems have hurt the brand, wrongly so, but in any case most used stuff is from their ‘golden age’, and the quality is and was superb. Lots used because lots sold. Take the opportunity to get a better deal, I have. Just... | |
| Testing Ethernet switch I understand network technology and see this the same as tvgeek. Some can benefit from the insight, others can keep their views to the contrary—I do encourage noobs to be skeptical and seek information in many places before spending money. |