phomchick
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| Using a 100 Volt amp on our 120 volt power line ? Bad idea. You would definitely need a step down transformer. Running it at 120 volts could be seriously shortening component life. | |
| Classical composers, symphonies If we are including Hindemith, we should mention his most popular work: Mathis der Maler.And since you like Mahler, you should definitely check out Shostakovich and Britten. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense I don’t know for certain, but I’m betting that these recordings when downloaded in DSD format are not compressed:https://bluecoastmusic.com/store?f%5B0%5D=field_record_label%3A139(I have the Mahler 2nd recording and it has a dynamic range approach... | |
| How To Field Questions About Your Audiophile Lifestyle... Q."Why do you play "Aerosmith" and the "Butthole Surfers"then switch to that "Beethoven" crap?"A. "Beethoven was a musician too."He went deaf without any rock music at all.”Classic! :-) | |
| Cleaner music when laptop is on battery vs plugged in Make sure your USB cable from the PC to the DAC has a ferrite core at the PC end, and even better, both ends. | |
| Beware the audio guru I think the Yanni/Laurel thing, as silly as it may have been, taught us that many of us hear differently from others.I don’t think that is true. I experimented with different speakers and headphones and am now certain that the biggest factor in he... | |
| Please Read and express your feelings and opinions.... The whole imaging and soundstaging thing is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick that was perpetrated by The Absolute Sound. All it has helped to do is to take the focus off of correct tonal balance and put it on, IMHO, what is, at best, an artifa... | |
| Please Read and express your feelings and opinions.... I sometimes visit a sailing form where they (almost) never remove any posts, but the software does provide an option to ignore posts by particular members. If you are reading a thread and come across a post by (for instance) <ignorant_flaming_i... | |
| Phonostages with Adjustable Curves, the Concise List Older thread on the same subject...https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/riaa-vs-columbia-vs-decca | |
| Phonostages with Adjustable Curves, the Concise List Hadley 621: curves for RIAA, LP (“Old Columbia”), and 78. Also Marantz 7C and 7T. | |
| Infinity RS 2.5 I’m glad to hear this news. Your explanation now makes perfect sense. The only way the the rear tweeters could play but not the front, was burned out tweeters. Fuses are much cheaper. Enjoy! You have some good speakers. | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? Yes, but the OP asked about using a DAC with volume control as a low impedance source to drive the interconnect to the amplifier. There is no passive attenuator in this scenario, and from an engineering standpoint no need for the preamp. The peopl... | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? The OP was asking about getting rid of the preamp in the case when the DAC has a volume control. In that case, there is no downstream volume control, and no need to provide a low impedance buffer for the interconnect, as the amplifier will take ca... | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? The theory is correct. Any preamp will add frequency response anomalies and distortion. You may prefer that sound to the unmodified signal, but it is good to be honest (as most of the posters in this thread have been) about what is actually going ... | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? Fake newsReal news. Google ‘Carver Stereophile Challange’ |