seandtaylor99
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| How Do you hide/camouflage your rats nest? Sugarbrie ... indeed, and with attention to room treatment I can now hardly hear her fists thumping the door. I slide meals under the door at regular intervals. You should try it. | |
| Best way to compare amps? Sugarbrie ... I don't think warmup was the reason. Warmup may make something of a difference bu nothing as profound as what I heard. I think fatparrot is close to my experience. You may not notice the step up, but boy do you ever notice the step d... | |
| How Do you hide/camouflage your rats nest? Unfortunately I had to improve the WAF by removing it from the living room into the spare bedroom. In the end it worked out well since now I can listen whenever I like and it doesn't compete with the TV. I'd like a bigger room but I wouldn't go ba... | |
| Best way to compare amps? A couple of days would be better than a short period. If you can swing it try a couple of days each. At minimum a couple of hours each.Sometimes you have to switch back and forth to appreciate it. I remember when I changed my NAD 3020 for a Missio... | |
| Are You Happy? I have about $3000 in hardware and a similar amount in software. I'd say 80% sounds good, 10% sounds amazing and 5% not so good and 5% unlistenable.For once I'm glad I don't have more money. Sounds like it makes people really unhappy with their sy... | |
| Can I start some trouble? "Frankly, I think the manufacturers rely more on expectation effects than real engineering".bomarc .. you took the words out of my mouth. And I think this applies to all audio components, not just cables (though they are probably the worst offende... | |
| subwoofer setup problem As a REL owner I should tell you to dump the ACI and buy REL, but I won't because I think that the ACI might work just as well.The above threads are interesting physics descriptions ported vs vented etc etc but I think your best advice (from Sean ... | |
| subwoofer setup problem I would try 3) first since it is relatively inexpensive, and ACI has a good return policy. I have also read ACI owners who have commented very favorably. Plus a simple capacitor (which is really all the filter is) is not going to cause much sonic ... | |
| suggestions for speakers If speakers must be close to the wall then that almost always rules out a rear-ported speaker. I think the proacs fall into this category. Anyone who has suggested a rear-ported speaker should be asked to qualify this recommendation when the speak... | |
| Coolest looking cd player in history Sorry, but when you've owned Spica Angelus speakers all other audio components are just visually boring :-) | |
| Inexpensive Amp and Speakers NAD, Rotel, Cambridge are receivers I'd look for at $150 (which is really pushing it).Mission probably make the best monitor speakers at this price ... here's an examplehttp://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?spkrmoni&1020708090If not mission tr... | |
| Used DAC or Used CD Player??? I don't know which Planet it was ... that was all the seller told me. I've never heard a planet, though I own a Rega Planar 3 so I know rega is capable of making good stuff. Whether a Rega planet would sound better than a CD63 with DIP and monarch... | |
| TUNERS..anyone? Most FM stations compress the music deliberately because their primary target audience are drivers in a noisy car environment or listening on a boom box. I've never seen the need for a high-end tuner for precisely this reason. | |
| Used DAC or Used CD Player??? The 18b and DIP will certainly be a MAJOR improvement over your CD63, particularly in imaging and definition. Since you have a preamp why get the Monarchy 18 (which includes preamp and volume) ? The model 22A and 22B is the same DAC (more or less)... | |
| Used DAC or Used CD Player??? I have a CD67SE ... on its own it's not a very good transport since there is quite a lot of jitter on the digital out. So if you go the DAC route be sure to either buy a DAC which resamples and reclocks the data stream to remove jitter, or buy a M... |