lowrider57
Responses from lowrider57
| Why Single-Ended? Thanks Ralph, I get it now. My many questions have been answered. | |
| Why Single-Ended? i have a balanced preamp and XLR inputs into my power amp, but the amp inputs are likely not balanced at all (Jolida 502p). Thus when I hooked up a pair of balanced Mogamis to replace whatever the unmarked weird green XLRs (that sound fine by the ... | |
| Request advice-need "brighter" speakers than Totem Hawks Smart move on your part. Now you can begin to rediscover your music. | |
| PSB Silver i soundstage height The rake angle is important in soundstage height. Use spikes or footers and have the speakers tilted back slightly. | |
| Why Single-Ended? @pbnaudio , Thanks, I’m familiar with the Whitlock paper, probably time for me to read it again.Typically Signal ground is isolated from chassis ground with a dual diode in reverse parallel and a resistor - or something similar. Signal ground shou... | |
| Why Single-Ended? It is correct that some manufactures use a jumper pin from 1 to 3 when a input are configured with two options - XLR and RCA. IMO there is several issues with this. First one being that pin 1 of a XLR should have Chassis ground (earth) potential -... | |
| Why Single-Ended? @atmasphere , thanks, that's the answer i was hoping to hear."my guess would be that finding a fully balanced preamp providing sonics that are as much to your liking as those of the UV-1, for a comparable price, would be a tall order if not imposs... | |
| Why Single-Ended? An addition to my post;The unbalanced cable runs would be short, 1 to 1.5 meters. | |
| Why Single-Ended? How much potential sonic performance would I lose by using my SE preamp into the unbalanced inputs of a fully differential amp? e.g., my UV-1 preamp into the SE input of an Atma-sphere amp, or using this preamp with a Pass Labs amp.There’s an impe... | |
| Clyde Stubblefield RIP The definition of Funk !!For anybody who attends drum clinics...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_55a_Sje0lY | |
| My first tube roll in a Primaluna Dialogue HP Integrated --The Amperex tubes have more top end attack. I wouldn't call it bite. There's more detail on top....not much, but it's there. --The Amperex may be less warm. The bass seems to be more defined but there's less of it. --The Primaluna's sounded a... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? @jond , yeah, sorry about that blanket statement. I should have reread my comments before posting them. | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? @jond , I really should have stressed that entry-level, or budget units have had the greatest improvement. I’ve heard Esoteric and Naim CDPs years ago and they have always had superior sonics. My friend’s digital in the 1980s rivaled his analogue ... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? spoogemonkey, I'm not sure, since I only moved up to higher-end gear about 12 years ago. I've noticed the most noticeable improvement is in budget DACs and CDPs. New units sound smoother, more realistic than those of the 1980's and 90's.I have an ... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? I agree with Erik that there are many modern DAC designs that do Redbook very well. These DAC’s are not simply using a Delta-Sigma dac chip, many have added a FPGA (field-programmable gate array), which is programmable by the designer to process t... |