herman
Responses from herman
| "Budget" preamp choices. "passives lack dynamics" is one of the biggest misconceptions in all of audio. That is a load of bull perpetuated by those who either have only heard them in systems that weren't compatible with them, or just parrot what other misinformed individu... | |
| Amplifier fried laptop what can I Do ? Any ideas? Degaussing only applies to CRT, not LCD displays.I think you either fried something from the heat of the amp or something just fried by coincidence. My far out idea is that either way you are looking at a trip to the repair shop. | |
| Which $7000 speakers to ask Santa? Avantgarde Unos go for that. | |
| Second round of auditions under my belt Given that we agree all speakers are flawed, and you value "alive and breathing," if you haven't done so check out some Lowther designs. A lot of the problems in earlier designs (the famous Lowther shout) have been addressed in the new designs. Th... | |
| Second round of auditions under my belt I would be cautious about labeling a speaker with qualities like "a bump in the mid-bass that really overwhelmed the rest of the systems qualities" on a casual audition. A lot of this is highly room and placement dependent. I've spent a lot of tim... | |
| Thumping sound in right channel of Amp The fact that it just started doing it after a year AND it only does it in one channel clearly indicates that something is wrong.Are you sure it is the amp thumping and not something before it? Swap the left/right inputs and see if it moves.Someti... | |
| Evidence of groove damage of TT setup? Is my tracking too light/heavy or is the LP damaged. I'm sorry, but how do you expect anybody here to answer that? All anybody here can do is offer up posssible reasons. In addition to the possibilities you listed it is possible that:1. your cartr... | |
| adaptors for BNC termination to RCA Radio Shack | |
| RCA, Balanced, Krell CAST, Status Quo to Nirvana? the cables null out the "SOUND" of single ended cablesNo, balanced cables null out common mode noise picked up by the cables, they still have a sonic signature just like single ended cables.Both topographies convert from voltage to current and bac... | |
| What is bias a tube amp ? Is it difficult? Bias determines the operating point of the tube without a signal applied i.e. just sitting there at idle. Some amps want the tubes to be just barely on. Some want them to be biased halfway on.In most cases it is a simple procedure, some require a ... | |
| Your Music Server Tboooe, 40,000 songs must be about 3,000 Cds. Most ripping services I see are about $1 a CD.Ouch!! | |
| magnepan mmgs-buy zero autoformers or stands 1st? I had a CJ MV50 (which is an EL34 amp at about 40 watts) with those speakers. Sure, there was bass and it sounded pretty good, but then I switched to a Mark Levinson 330 something or other which I believe was about 250 watts or so into 4 ohms. No ... | |
| "romantic" sounding cabling No disrespect, but IMHO trying to tune a system in this way with cables is ridiculous. You ask for advice on the sound of your system and don't even bother to let us know what equipment you have. The other components, especially speakers, have so ... | |
| Your Music Server Tboooe, I have about 38,000 songs (2,800 albums) in Apple Lossless which takes up about 900 gig. FLAC would be about the same. You can buy a Buffalo 2 Terabyte NAS device for about $1,300 which would give you 1.5 terabytes in RAID 5, or add anothe... | |
| Your Music Server I'm telling you that I suspect the jitter specs for an Airport Express are not very good, and that I'm using a DAC with a jitter reduction circuit and, as far as I know, you are not. |