mike_in_nc
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| Trying to get a general idea of SQ hierarchy for combo pre/DAC vs separate boxes For an all-digital system, a DAC-preamp or DAC that is functional as a preamp offers a lot of advantages. (I've owned several in that category.) That combination avoids the duplication of costly items like chassis, front panels, and power supplies... | |
| Kimber 12tc incompatibility with ayre my-r twenty I was also wondering about what @adg101 said, Curious why not set your amps behind or beside your speakers and run a balanced cable from your preamp to your amps if you have a balance preamp? Yes, your amps are going to be out in the open but th... | |
| Fan on Amp Unbeatable @pawlowski6132 - I can't stand any audio equipment with a fan. The noise reduces the S/N ratio tremendously.If your amp really is worth big bucks (as @mrdecibel says), my suggestion is, sell it and start fresh. There are a lot of great modern SS a... | |
| High definition vs. tonal balance I'm in the same camp as the OP, @oregonpapa , and @erik_squires on this one. I have heard systems with impressive soundstaging and dynamics and extended FR in both directions, and yet . . . when I listened to an orchestral recording, I couldn't te... | |
| Thiel CS 2.2 Speakers... What you all think? I enjoyed owning a pair of Thiels for a few years, close to 30 yr ago. The imaging was excellent, as was the lack of overhang. I did find them a little bright or emphasized in the high frequencies. The measurements of the CS 2 2 by John Atkinson s... | |
| Speaker Clarifiers? It is my belief that cables, pucks, and clarifiers are popular because they are easy to experiment with and easy to get into the house without raising suspicions in one’s mate that a lot of money is being spent for dubious ends.On the other hand, ... | |
| Is Jim Smith's Book"Get Better Sound"Best Book ? It's really an excellent book, and the first one I'd recommend any audiophile to buy. | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps Audiophile preamps with full bass management are relatively rare. Some have been mentioned by others. A few more are Anthem STR Preamp (also STR Integrated)miniDSP SHDClasse Delta Pre, not yet released. (Its predecessor, the Classe CP-800, has bas... | |
| Is there an affordable long run XLR preamp to amp cable out there? OK guys, I understand that I misspoke about pin 1. It is chassis ground, not signal ground. I am glad to have my error corrected for the record, even though it was not critical to the point I attempted to make.My point was that the talk about pin ... | |
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... The Janszen Valentinas that I use are a 2.5-way design: cone woofers and a electrostatic element divided into two parts, only one of which reproduces the very top frequencies. I like them a lot, though I'm not sure how much of that is due to the t... | |
| Thinking about a digital media player. No streaming. But there's a problem... I can’t really answer your question as you posed it, but I would like to give you a few thoughts. IMO, the obvious answer to the visibility issue is something controlled with a tablet -- a Roon or DLNA system. (That’s what I use, with my 70-yr-old... | |
| Aesthetix MIMAS Yes, the one at AXPONA did have the DAC in it. I believe it was being driven by a laptop computer. | |
| Aesthetix MIMAS I heard it at AXPONA, in one of my two favorite rooms there. Very natural sound, just lovely. If memory serves, it was paired with Aerial 6t speakers. | |
| Kimber 12tc incompatibility with ayre my-r twenty I mis-typed when I wrote: "The cables with low capacitance *and* low resistance were the Belden 5000UE and 5T00UP." I should have said that they are the cables with low capacitance and low inductance. | |
| Kimber 12tc incompatibility with ayre my-r twenty A while ago, I collected RCL values for a bunch of speaker cables. Many manufacturers don’t provide them, so mine is a short list.All the cables had low resistance, < 0.005 ohms/ft.The highest capacitance were the Goertz MI-2 Velocity (317 pf/f... |