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| What setting should my amp’s input sensitivity switch be set at? don vito is right. Leave the gun, take the canoli. Er, I mean use the one that sounds right.The non-technical way to think of this is, you know how sometimes you have to turn the volume up (or down) a lot when going from one source to another? Vit... | |
| Will Technology Kill the Audiophile Hobby? Imagine audio technology in 5 billion years. Its all underground because the sun went Red Giant, expanded to two a.u. and vaporized the surface of the planet. Except wait, that didn't happen, because in only 750 million years the Andromeda Galaxy ... | |
| Tubed Phono Preamp - Too many Choices! Why spend that kind of money when the Herron VTPH-2A is so much better for so much less? | |
| A decent preamp to complete my setup? bacom15Being in a remote area and patient my advice is order yourself a copy of Robert Harley's Complete Guide to High-End Audio https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-High-End-Audio/dp/0978649362 That's what I did, and it not only saved me a lot ... | |
| Home owner's insurance question But the replacement cost section states that the insurance company won't pay until you actually replace your stereo system. If one makes a big claim, let's say $100,000, how does one pay this first if you're going to get paid afterwards? Yea... | |
| Does the quality of an older interconnect degrade the sound over time? No they do not degrade over time. Not unless they were really poorly made, which is always a risk with these things. Don't get me going on all the crap cables out there giving a bad rep to the whole market.What definitely does degrade over time th... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Okay off-topic (technically this was last night)-Year of the Cat - just On the Border. Love that one.Rhythm of the Saints - the first of 3 Side two's I will play tonight where the SQ on that side is so much better you can't believe it.Mel Torme Sw... | |
| Power Conditioners - and where they are placed I'm looking to get a proper power conditioner for my home system. I've been looking at Furman, Audioquest, PS Audio, etc. Furman appearing to be the best bang for buck (Furman Elite 15 PFi).I currently have very limited rack space. Would placing... | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? The answer to your question is in the way its asked. All your pros are technical considerations, nothing about sound quality. Then the cons are also all technical, except for "long term subjective listening" which the giveaway there is "subjective... | |
| Sound quality improvement via simple “isolation” If the power cords any good then everything its used on should sound better. Ditto conditioners. Otherwise, guess what? They weren't any good to begin with. | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Favorite? Captain Fantastic. Oh and his lyricist the Brown Dirt Cowboy. | |
| Speaker Cable Malarkey (“Ghost” Cables) Not two inches! Four inches!! A rare miscalculation from Audiogon's reigning theoretical physicist (codename: codenamegeoff)http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina47.htmSorry wrong codenamehttp://www.machinadynamica.com/machina42.htmSorry wrong lin... | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet Wait, what? Are we talking speaker cables? Or lamp cord??? | |
| Is shielding necessary on interconnects & speaker cables Your best bet with anything like this is to leave that choice to the professionals. In other words do not look for shielded or unshielded. Don't give it a moments consideration. Look only for what sounds good.Other than phono cables where the sign... | |
| Best multi-purpose subwoofer You old optimist, you! |