onhwy61

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How is my loading affecting my sound?
Here's some theory from Bent Audio. In short, too high a value will bring up the top end, too low a value will do the reverse. 
Why not use a PC style UPS?
They generate large amounts of electric noise. They are typically designed as surge protections and UPS, not power conditioners. 
NHT 3.3s -- too big for my room?
Can't see why they won't work if you set them up as recommended. Your room is plenty big. 
DK Design Group vs. Boulder
I just spent the last few years of my life listening to every high end amplifier ever made. The list includes some custom made products that absolutely blew away the Boulder, but I've yet to hear anything that approaches the sonic purity, prodigio... 
Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please
It would apply to your entire iTunes library, but it can be toggled on/off as you see fit. 
Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please
If you go to iTune preferences you can play with the cross fade setting to tie songs together without a gap. It may effect sound quality. 
Help Cartridge too heavy Need to add counterweig
My mistake. 
Help Cartridge too heavy Need to add counterweig
Go to the hard store and get black electrical tape. Wrap tape around tonearm near headshell. By trail and error you should be able to wrap enough tape to bring the overall balance into the counterweight's range. 
Congested sound - more power or resolution?
Name specific recordings where you have this problem. It could be that there are problems with the recordings themselves. It's not unheard of for guitar tracks to be recorded clean and distortion/grunge added later via various effects processors a... 
Best color s to paint dedicated listening room
Color effects mood and temperament. There are many studies to this effect. Search them out and pick colors to suite your music listening mood. 
How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?
Tbg, now that you've had your unit for a while, is the RealityCheck still one of the greatest advances in the past 40 years of music reproduction. 
Help with Remote Control on Rowland Coherence II
When this happened to me, I was told to simply snip the leads to the capacitor and the problem will never occur again. It's obvious what to snip once you open the remote. 
The West Coast is currently blowing out other area
Are ex-computer engineers turning their expertise towards high end audio reproduction? Remember, you heard it hear first, off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush... 
Anyone have experience with the Nanotec Nespa?
Tvad, the free market is a continuous process. At any given point in time sub-markets may exist where supply and demand are not in balance. Think of the plywood market in the Gulf coast a few days before a major hurricane. The audiophile market is... 
Transfer music from PC to external hard drive
Your music files are computer files like any other computer file. Move them as you would any other computer file. The time it takes depends on how fast your hard drives are spec'd, your hard drive controller and your computer's processor. 30Gb sho...