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| Comparing Speaker Cables @carlsbad I appreciate your being the only person so far who has actually pointed out the potential downsides of the extra set of cables acting as an antennae and the very real risk of shorting the outputs which I will now take extreme care to av... | |
| Comparing Speaker Cables Chuck didn't your mother ever tell you that if you don't have anything nice to say you shouldn't say anything at all? In this case substitute constructive for nice. And aren't you the one always saying everything matters? And I have found that ... | |
| Tekton speaker comparison thread @benarritt I have never heard the Double Impacts but I do have the Moabs with BE tweeters and I had the opportunity to audition the Focal Sopra No 3’s for about an hour at a local dealer. The Focal’s were a very interesting speaker and they had t... | |
| Zu vs. Tekton? -- your comparisons on price, build, sound It is always interesting to see how much hatred Tekton speakers get on here. I owned the Zu Omen Dirty Weekend speakers and couldn't stand them. Thin and uninvolving sound but they were detailed. I simply love my Tekton Moabs. They sound incred... | |
| Nobsound springs - load range I'm curious about this idea of using foam ear plugs with the Nobsound springs. I assume you roll the earplugs small and insert them in the middle of each spring? Or is the idea to put them in the holes that don't have springs in them? And is th... | |
| Preamp recommendations for my system please I'm not sure the Denafrips Athena competes at the kind of price point you are comfortable with but I sure am happy with mine. Four XLR inputs, one RCA input, two XLR outputs and one RCA output. 60 step remote control. $2000. I'm not sure how t... | |
| Preamp Opinion I tried to build the Tubes4hifi SP14 preamp from their board and a few select parts but it is unacceptably noisy with a 400 watt solid state power amp with a 120Hz hum from an impossible to diagnose ground loop presumably. I've built five First W... | |
| SMSL DACs I have compared the SMSL SU-9 to the Ares II. Doing A/B comparisons is easy with Roon and Raspberry Pi 4 as the source to both DACs and a Schiit Freya to switch between them. It is easy to level match and have the only variable being the DACs. ... | |
| Need some information about DSD over HDMI I got the HDMI extractor today and I can confirm that it is capable of outputting a 2.28 MHz DSD signal to my D70 DAC over I2S. The D70 requires you to set the IIS Phase to REV which I think is the PS Audio standard. When you are sending DSD ove... | |
| Need some information about DSD over HDMI I asked a similar question on one of the SACD groups on facebook and I was directed to a product on ebay that is supposed to extract the DSD and output it over I2S. If you search ebay for HDMI/MHL to IIS I2S HDMI IIS I2S Separate Extract Audio ... | |
| Cost Effective System Improvement? Talk with Alvin at Vinshine and ask him if the Hermes or Iris DDC will make a significant difference to your Pontus. I was surprised at how big the improvement was using the Iris with my Topping D70.If you are streaming to the BlueSound over blue... | |
| Audiophile-grade ground rod? Couldn't you just use a copper pipe and save a few hundred dollars?If this is a DIY project how do you find where to connect the ground rod to the electrical wiring in the house? | |
| Interesting experience with two very different speaker designs My Tekton Moabs are MUCH better than the Spatial Audio M1, Emerald Physics CS2, and Pure Audio Project Trio 15 speakers that I have owned. Of course a lot depends on the room and set up but as intriguing as the open baffle designs are I think the... | |
| Newbie to Vinyl Seeks Tips Did you mean Ivory soap? I find it hard to imagine that is good for records but I have never tried it. I have tried scrubbing records with those paint pads making sure to follow the grooves but records were still noisy. | |
| Fried my Wilson Watt Puppy 7 tweeters, now what? Thanks for the input. Wilson got back to me this afternoon and it is pretty much as ssand1 and steakster said. In order to replace the tweeters you have to go through a dealer. Wilson has actually been out of stock for a while on replacement tw... |