kalali
Responses from kalali
| The Science of Cables One thing that is missing in all these discussions is the esthetic value of the cable. It applies to speaker cables, interconnect cables, and power cords. In most other components in the system, people are willing to pay more, sometimes a lot more... | |
| Quick question on 12v power supply "Usually overrating the power supply is safe, so if you find anything in the 0.3 to 1 A it will be fine. ""Looks like the ifi is 1.8 for the 12v I am getting""Perfect"Hmmm, 1.8 is much greater than 1 limit?? Just saying. As a a reference, I tried ... | |
| Best power amp for Martin Logan Expression 11a Budget? | |
| How do I get a speaker with the bass slam of my el cheapo ear buds...? Speaker placement and room treatment. | |
| Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time" kosst, as someone who hasn't even heard the speakers that are subject of this thread you sure have a lot to say....Give it up before you dig yourself any deeper. Stick with the subjects that you're familiar with so folks can value your objective ... | |
| Confused State of affairs: CD player "With a good DAC, a $100 player sounds the same as a $50,000 transport."Is that from personal experience or just like most of your other remarks based on theory? Also, what is a "good DAC"? | |
| Integrated recommendation with Vandersteen 2C "...without a solid platform and proper execution of tilt back."Johnny, what degree of tilt back do you recommend to start with? | |
| Can someone tell me why Tidal MQA shows as 96Khz when using a non-MQA DAC? Mine does the same. Never seen anything higher from Tidal Masters. I'm guessing that's their highest rate for the streaming content. | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet ^^^^^ Great idea. OP, before going through the trouble and the cost of rearranging the cables, try connecting the speakers with similar cables but above the carpet and see if you hear a difference. I've been down a similar rabbit hole only to find... | |
| SS preamps with two XLR inputs and at least four outputs [two of them XLR] “The Mac C47 does meet the criteria, however it is out of my price range”Actually, if you look at the C47 carefully, it looks like the two pairs of the XLR outputs are shared with the two pairs of the RCA unbalanced outputs which seems to imply th... | |
| Need DAC/Streaming Advice "I have about 6000 CD’s and won’t live long enough to get them all ripped"Depending on what you have in your CD collection, you may find most of them already available in the Tidal catalog and can readily stream. | |
| Impedance match I think the concerns around "impedance mismatch" are somewhat exaggerated for most "typical component purchasers". By far, most of these purchasers either buy an integrated amplifier/receiver or solid state separates where the (separate) preamp al... | |
| SS preamps with two XLR inputs and at least four outputs [two of them XLR] The OP is looking for "at least four outputs". I personally haven’t seen any preamps, maybe except for home theatre processors, that meets that requirement. I think most of models recommended don’t either.Using splitters is an option. Or check the... | |
| Switching totems Vandersteen VLR is supposedly designed for bookshelf applications. | |
| 8 track CRUSHES CD,Vinyl and everything else!!! We still need another thread for cassette crushes CD and vinyl...I think we already did the reel-to-reel crushing CD. There’s also other permutations such as vinyl ripped on NAS crushing the original LP, CD recorded on cassette, etc., etc. |