mceljo
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| If she isn't into the gear, is she into the music? My wife wouldn't choose to have any of my gear, but does appreciate the sound. She enjoys listening as long as I keep the volume down and she can reach, stitch, or play on the iPad. The system is in parallel with the home entertainment setup becau... | |
| Digital Processor That Are Great Matches 4 Tubes? For reference, the Maverick D2 also has a solid state output. I have the outputs hooked up to different inputs on my amp and prefer the solid state feed. | |
| How important for surrounds to match fronts? I am a low budget home theater guy and simy run a 4.1 setup with my Focal mains and some "junk" rear channel speakers. I have obviously heard much better systems, but I don't feel like I am missing anything. I would have a matched center channel, ... | |
| Digital Processor That Are Great Matches 4 Tubes? I have a Maverick D2 tubemagic DAC that I am happy with and I have a tube amplifier. No where near your top price range so you may not have interest in it... | |
| SPEAKER SUGGESTIONS My father-in-law has a pair of 706v speakers and I really enjoy listening to them. They are powered by an Onkyo 606 that I gave him. I have wanted to hook them to my Yaqin and see how they sound. I have heard them in the store powered by Krell mon... | |
| SPEAKER SUGGESTIONS Do you have a main system that you could put the Yaqin temporarily to evaluate with some different and possibly better speakers? I have a Yaqin MC-30L paired with Focal 836v speakers. I would anticipate them being an excellent match with a Focal b... | |
| Does anybody have : Mine went to my fried when I sold him my IL-50s to go along with his IL-60s. Which ones do you have? I picked up my IL-50s from Hardon Kardon direct for around $400 with shipping at least ten years ago. Fun speakers, but I don't regret upgrading. | |
| My PC Audio Question Journey Then it would be pretty dumb to use anything other than ALAC for my intended uses. | |
| My PC Audio Question Journey After spending some time over the weekend sorting through my three similar but different iTunes files I have opted to just rip everything again rather than trying to identify the differences. It may be the longer process, but it requires very litt... | |
| My PC Audio Question Journey How does one look up the jitter spec on a given device? For example, I have had people make statements about the AE being ok for jitter using the optical output, but very jittery analog. What does "a little jittery" mean? | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I don't think it has anything to do with being smart or not. It the way our brains work, including mine. We all think we are the exception to the rule. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Mapman - it doesn't help that the vast majority assume themselves to be immune to placebo and the power of expectations. It is alway blamed on inferior hearing and the number of audiophiles that believe they heard something and then later convince... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? My understanding is that the necessary functionality to decode the digital signal on the receiving end is a macro function compared to current digital technology. I may not have really poor vision, but I can still tell when it is day vs. night wit... | |
| Asynchronous USB DAC and USB cable quality If you could not tell a difference between optical and USB then I would suggest that EMI / RFI may not be a significant factor as the optical connection is immune to it. Is it expected that the USB connection be superior so EMI / RFI would be the ... | |
| Asynchronous USB DAC and USB cable quality What is the connection between EMI / RFI and the digital signal in the USB cable? You have already said that you couldn't hear a difference between Toslink and your printer USB cable. Can we all agree that EMI / RFI have no effect on the optical T... |