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| HT receiver to separate amp - tips? You know it had not occurred to me that a pre-pro could be upgraded. I had it in my head that, like the receivers when the new think like 4K comes out that a new unit was required. Options galore!thanks for the advice everyone. | |
| HT receiver to separate amp - tips? thanks much for the information and suggestions. love actionable information! appreciate it. | |
| Help needed with PC/DAC may want to consider turning OS updates off. dumps my drivers everytime and resets to the realtek card. annoying. | |
| What are you using to rip your cds to a hard drive? one feature that is really nice (YMMV) is the dbPoweramp ability to rip the CD and do multiple things with that rip. Example we rip and then save as FLAC, mp3 (highish bit rate), and MP3 lowish bit rate for players and phone. so one rip and 3 di... | |
| No can understand.... you may want to validate your center channel tweeter is working. that will muddy things up quite nicely. try running room correction and if there is a chirp function it will be obvious if there is a problem. | |
| found some old records. advice please. thanks very much guys. appreciate it. | |
| Small Monitors and Book shelves for Rock Music? since no budget I'd go dynaudio C1 for the expensive and era d5 for the budget. thats $7k to 1K. both stand up to rock much better than you would suspect. good bass on both. both need a bit of room but what the heck you can trade perfect position ... | |
| What is the best DAC under $3000 i did something similar (ditched CD and build a PC based system) and listened with my speakers, similar amp, and my music to 4 or 5 dacs from 500 to 3600 bucks. two findings for me. first was that all sounded different. did not expect the differen... | |
| LOUSY SOUND AT LIVE CONCERTS a more recent trend that is only occasionally acknowledged is to make new sports venues loud. Rose garden in portland for example is specially designed to reflect sound fron the stands down to the floor and presumably back. even has panels to lowe... | |
| Downgrade Suprise? not sure thats a surprise really ENO. the link between price and performance is a best a loose one. a $1K system to a $100K system is easy but no reason to assume a 3k is inferior to a 5k system. the more I learn ( not hear or read but actually de... | |
| What the best 89-90 db speaker I can buy for 3k? shubert how about Zu speakers. As I recall they have a couple options in your price range that are near 100db/w | |
| What the best 89-90 db speaker I can buy for 3k? Out of curiosity why do you worry about efficiency over most of the other stuff folks worry about? | |
| Need advice on how to dip a toe into digital I think the easiest way to dip a toe it to get a free player (jriver - free, itunes if a mac, or foobar) and get a audioquest dragonfly outboard dac. output this to a amp, receiver or what do you have? and try it out. I'd skip worrying about sacd ... | |
| Omar Bose... Rrog well put. I personally am not a bose hater, rather i put them in the bag with monster as a company that does not really deliver value for money but defends that practice by things like limiting reviews (though you are correct and I suspect th... | |
| Soooo many choices. loren personally I'd forget i heard anything about rates. if you digitize your plain old cd its 16/44. if you download some high definition stuff its mostly 24/96 with some 24/192. not sure any even is selling any 32 bit stuff, same with DSD. if y... |