jbrrp1
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| Herbies Pucks floor spike protectors... I added the Decoupling Gliders in brass a few months back to ride under the 3 spikes per speaker. I felt that they brought a nice touch fullness in the lower registers without losing musical definition, and the mids up seem a bit clearer, too. A... | |
| Selling Tubes. I can second TC Tubes for testing services. I had them test a pile of Winged C 6550's and Ei KT-90's last year (nice that they are in the same metro area!). Tyler was very informative in evaluating the results, and his Amplitrex tester is first ... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? I have always been a vinyl guy, and also had CD players and then DAC's that did the digital chores. IME digital kept staying clearly inferior due to something just not right in the highs - - until I started using R2R DAC's. I first built an Audi... | |
| Berkeley Alpha DAC vs Lampizator Big7 I owned both DAC systems you are asking about, first the BADA DAC + USB, then the Lampi Big 7. The move to the Big 7 was a lovely upgrade for me and my system. It brought more of everything, and in a more holistic musical presentation. It was m... | |
| Most Recent ROON Upgrade Quite Nice I just started using Roon a month ago, and do like it quite a lot for the info and navigability. One thing that perplexes me, however, is the lack of a function to pause the playing queue at the end of the playing track. I previously used Foobar... | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles I think the OP's request is poisoned fruit, really. If you really cannot afford it, don't tempt yourself to develop a taste for it, because you risk basking in disappointment as a result of the knowledge. Just enjoy the best you can afford and g... | |
| Would you put Beryllium in your ears? Interesting risks here:" Risk to workers depends considerably on their work tasks. For example, machinists in both ceramics and nuclear weapons manufacture have been found to have an increased risk of developing sensitization. This is probably du... | |
| Back to the drawing board A pragmatic solution is to go the Audio Kinesis Swarm route, where you use 4 smaller subs asymmetrically positioned such that their inevitable peaks and nulls even out. | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? If it had to be just one musical personality, it would be J.S. Bach. | |
| ADS L810 That speaker is getting so old that it might have troubled electrolytic capacitors in its crossover, too. tomic601's suggestion of crossover swapping would prove that angle out, as well. | |
| THD on AC mains--what level is typical? My PS Audio P-10's both report ~3.8% in my neck of the woods, typically (middle of a 3+MM population metro area). The regenerators do make that sound better once they are done reconstructing the signal. | |
| What’s your favorite ECC 85/6AQ8 Tube? I tried a pile of 6AQ8's in my EAR 890 amp, and I liked the Amperex best, but I have at least 6 different varieties. I know longer own the amp, so I really should sell off some tubes..... (Got a bunch of 12AX7's, Ei KT-90's, and others. I shou... | |
| What’s wrong with Diana Krall? As much as I love the nuances in Miles and Evans, I hear no reasonable parallel with DK, I'm afraid. If she weren't easy on the eyes I suspect we would not have heard of her. | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? In my evolving system for the last 10 years I have found the power cord to have easily the greatest impact (this after a conditioner [Shunyata Hydra,Audience RPT6, Audiodharma Powerwing, etc.] or after my current regenerator [PS Audio P10]), follo... | |
| Stuff you bought on Audiogon, but never have seen another? @tonkayAn MFA Magus preamp would be interesting to try again. In the late 80's I was demoing one against the Counterpoint 5.1 and ended up going with the pricier Counterpoint - - but it was close. Then the Counterpoint blew up on me too many tim... |