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| Some Thought on Cables and Tweaks Geoffkait wrote:"It's much more likely, rather than lowering resistance, crystals simply reduce vibration and/or reduce RFI in the system. I.e., wider audio bandwidth and lower noise result from better signal to noise ratio."That is indeed how his... | |
| should I notice the upsampling? Upsampling should make for noticeably smoother sounding highs for the most part and it may also help some with imaging and/or soundstaging. Sometimes in budget systems other components can mostly mask the difference...from the looks of it, I would... | |
| Some Thought on Cables and Tweaks Geoffkait, didn't mean to imply that makers were totally untrustworthy, but was responding in part to Sabai's comments:"Some cable makers and tweak makers produce more verbiage than you can shake a stick at to describe what their products do. How ... | |
| Some Thought on Cables and Tweaks Sabai, you’re definitely on the right track. A couple decades ago, when I was first beginning to investigate what it was that made one speaker wire or IC better than another (at around $600 a pair or less), I wondered, when it came to geometries f... | |
| break-in--bane or boon ?? After assuming for many, many years that there must be somebody somewhere who indeed had all the answers when it came to just what exactly was happening with break-in (which I believe to be a very real phenomenom - just as I believe accomodation o... | |
| Preamps waste of money? My own experience with this has actually been something along the lines of Dracule1 - except, and I don't want to talk over him on this, that I never really accepted that the Goldpoint SMD (yes, SMD!, and honestly anyone is free to go ahead and la... | |
| tube preamp in SS receiver loop If you go with the buffer don't forget to expirement with using it plugged straight into the main ins on your Marantz - even if you bought it with the full intent of using it as you describe above. The difference in sound quality just may surprise... | |
| tube preamp in SS receiver loop Sorry Vesuvio, I see now where your preamp would only have one line input in addition to the phono input - didn't pick up on that the first time around. But my advice is still essentially the same as for the buffer - you'd still end up needing a s... | |
| tube preamp in SS receiver loop If I have it right, you're talking about connecting several sources into one input on a tube buffer using Y-adapters. In that case, it's your original idea, that this may cause hum and noise problems, that I think is correct. Using Y-adapters is o... | |
| Best wire to connect amplifier binding posts? It may depend somewhat on whether you like your existing speaker cables. If you're not looking to substantially upgrade them, then you might want to take your cue from their construction to a degree (whether OCC copper or silver, for example). OCC... | |
| DIY high end speakers? Be sure to check out Electronic Visionary Systems (EVS) and give Ric Schultz a call. I know him to be a good guy and has a new line of open baffle designs (originally insired by the Emerald Physics CS-2, but have since gone way beyond) that, while... | |
| Laying it on the line “I learned that most manufactured components are built to a price point and many manufacturers really don't know sound. When you look inside a $10K preamp, the parts are nothing special such as capacitors, resistors, volume controls”. “I see upgra... | |
| Anyone have experience with "burn-in generators"? Ok, here goes. Have the frybaby. Works as advertised really. Dont want to take away anything from anyone elses experiences here, but havent yet encountered any kind of attenuating of the highs or softening of the bass on anything Ive tried it ... | |
| DAC with defeatable upsampling I use a Ric Schultz-modified Behringer DEQ-2496. With the DAC, new analog output stage mod, linear power supply, new DAC chip and new clock mod would be about $1k, maybe less. Switchable between 96k and NOS. Selectable dither settings as well, not... | |
| Searching for better 2 channel performance? Emotiva has a new preamp coming out, but it's $1500. The NAD T175 might be a possiblity and there's one being offered here at Agon for $875. |