rhljazz
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| Speaker distance ESP speakers are 7ft 4 in. apart center to center in a 14 ft wide room, toed in at 37 degrees. The projected axis cross at 6 ft out which is about 4 ft in front of my seated position. There is no "hole in the middle" effect and the sound stage i... | |
| What music or equipment gifts did you get for Christmas this year? Blue Sound Vault 2 so I can store all of my cd's in one compact package for transport to a summer home that I'm planning to purchase. It will be a bit time consuming to copy all of them. At least I have a few months head start. | |
| Bi Wire vs Speaker Jumpers I have N802's. I have used them both single wired and bi wired. The b&w supplied jumpers are very good. I have a drawer full of different jumpers and they all sound different. Single wired I prefer Audio Magic cables with the b&w jumpe... | |
| Triode or Ultralinear mode What you are missing is an amp that is designed to operate solely as a triode amp. I've had two amps, a Cary and a VAC that offered switched operation and both sounded rolled off and dynamically dead in triode. My BAT VK 55 is pure triode and is... | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . Buy a new Chord Hugo 2 or a used Hugo 1. No off the shelf dac chips, proprietary watts time aligned filter. Check the reviews on line from the British press.It is small, portable, outstanding build quality, and doesn't require a high dollar afte... | |
| Since Dennis Had left Cary has the company built any new tube equipment? I not sure if Dennis designed the 120S or not. I purchased one and was not very impressed with the build quality or the Sonics. However, I am impressed with both aspects of my circa 1996 Sli50.I know there are a few different mods done on the Sl... | |
| Thinking of replacing my Bat spaceheater with class D, real world thoughts please I just turned on my BAT space heater for the winter. It sounds great and the room is warming up nicely. The W4S gets a winters rest. | |
| Somehow I've got myself a "WTF" dilema with my newly setup Turntable. HELP! I propose you are confusing the setting for your cartridge. You have a high output MC cartridge which will require the same gain setting as a MM cartridge. So that means a low gain output setting. You refer to to a high output setting which is ... | |
| Fix it or not, my CJ Premier 11a Amp? If the amp doesn't have separate fuses for the tubes, I'd be inclined to swap in a new set of tubes and see what happens.My VAC amp has only one fuse and I have had it blow due to a bad tube. A cheap and easy fix if it works plus you would likely... | |
| Speaker Placement Priority - wall clearance or perfect equilateral My current speaker setup which has been refined over years of listening has them seven feet apart center to center with the listening position nine feet away. This is with full range speakers. I can't see any advantage to using the equilateral f... | |
| Financial bind and need a nice XLR Morrow audio MA4 sounds fantastic in my summer system. I'll be trying it out in the winter system in another week.Be sure to go for at least the five day burn in if you decide to try this cable. It is the best XLR cable I have tried including a ... | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison Erik,I do not listen to test tones or specs. I only use red book as digital source. There are few innovations in the digital conversion world that truly separate one product from another. Most use the same chip sets with various number of chips... | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison I agree with bigkdz. If you can't tell which one is better within the first 30 seconds there really isn't a significant difference.Level matching may make a fair comparison if you are switching back and forth, but if at that point you are straini... | |
| Let's talk power cords A difference for sure but that does not translate directly to an improvement. Change can generate an heightened sense of awareness whereby the change is perceived as an improvement. Listening for a period of weeks or months and then switching ba... | |
| Speed I think a significant factor is most speakers have ported bass which introduces that column of vibrating air that is not under direct control of the driver. Sealed box designs sound faster to me. Their transient response in the bass is faster. ... |