Hi Gang, Haven't visited the forum in a while and happy fast approaching holiday season. I'm itching for new gear again and I'm current eyeing the Sony Z1R, even if it sounds really really bad, I still love how it looks :P. I know the main thread is about 700 ish pages long, and it's...

I just got a new pair of HD800 a week ago and currently I'm ampping them by my Benchmark DAC1 HDR.    I had to admit right out of box the highs from this combo is too much for my ears to bear and I had to play with Foobar's EQ to make it listenable. However, after about 30ish hrs of play...

Really haven't seen this unit being mentioned here, looks very promising to me:             1. Power connector (premium quality power supply included output for purest signal transfer) 2. Component, S-Video, Composite outputs for sensational video performance 3. Professional...

Just saw this on their website, the look, the form, the size are all very attractive to me. Even has USB input! Looks like a perfect amp for a small room PC set up.    Why I don't see people talking about this? Hard to find a decent review online for it too! Or a dealer even!

I don't know who's into the L cameras in this forum, care to share your treasures? Here is mine  

Hello gang,   The vinyl bug has hit me again and I'm looking for an upgradge, currently I'm eyeing the P9 and the Apheta Cartridge. If anyone here is using this combo please share your thoughts.    I picked P9 simply because the set and go philosophy from Rega tables, I simply hate...

Just wondering what is the idle power consumption of this amplifier? can't really find it anywhere. Anyone ever did some measurements? Thanks.

Ever since I got my M3, I've been listening mostly to MP3s fed from my pc to my Cambridge CDP as a dac, and my TT was mainly setting there collecting dust. Just recently, I started to play vinyls again and noticed I have to crank the volume to the -10dp range on the NAD to get to my "normal"...

I got a Nad M3 used and one screw in it came loose probably due to shipping and it fell on top of a roll of transistors on the left channel pre amp board and whenever I turn the amp on, it goes into the protective mode. I found out about the screw because after the problem occurred, I can...

I'm ordering my first turntable a Rega P3/24, finally, can't resist the urge anymore, and besides reordering some of my CD collections on Vinyl, I'm looking for a list of must have recordings... So any pointers where to look? I mainly listen to Jazz, Classical, and Classical Rock. I'm...

Kinda surprised this info is hard to find, anyone have ordered any rega turntables in the NY Metro, Long Island area? Also, anyone in NY ordered Rega P3 tables from Music Direct? Thanks.

Just got this card and found out the SPDIF OUT port bypasses every single effect of the chip, any options I can change so I can use the equalizer bass and treb adjuster etc etc besides using the analog out? Thanks.

I tried to find some decent reviews on this table but failed, have no vinyl experience, total noob, but would like to get my feet wet. So anyone here own the mentioned table or has any experience with it? I'm looking for a table that doesn't need much mod like tone arms or cat atm, because I...

Anyone tried the album yet? I'm an old time Blizzard game fan and still plays wow, just not sure if its worth 20 bucks for the cds...

I have some spare Canare mic cables which has 4 conductors inside, and what I'm thinking is using these cables into phono RCA. Basically what I'm thinking is cut the cables and use 2 for signal and 2 for ground. These will only be 1-2 feet short ICs and any down side of this configuration?

Use to be Amazon for me, but since they started charging sales tax to New York orders I don't order as much from them as before. What is(are) your source(s)? It has to be bargain priced.

I'd like to share this experience here because I donno if its entirely in my head or it's something that can be verified by others as well... I got my new LD MK IV SE not too long ago and I still remember the revelation when I heard the sound that came out of the amp after about 5 hours of...

As I turn up the volume(more than half way) know on my amp I hear hum coming out of my speakers, wondering if adding a power conditioner will eliminate this or is something else in my system? How much of a improvement will a conditioner improve the sound quality?

Ok, two pins on the connector, one fat and one thin, my guess is that the fat one is for the signal and thin one is for ground? Got all the material ready just need to clear this up before I fire up my iron

I can't find the LD MK IV SE review thread anymore wondering why its gone... was tweaking the volume settings on my LD and donno if its just me or not, I found that the volume control on the LD is not really linear. It only opens up after number 30 plus 2 dots regardless the gain...

I cut my stock Senn HD650 cable to take a look and what I found is interesting... For each channel, there are 2 strand of copper wire but they are not insulated against each other which means they are bare wire. So there are total 4 conductors, the copper is colored as following, left/right...

I currently using Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro to feed a Onkyo A9555 to a pair of Polk LSi9s. Thinking about either getting a CD player or upgrade my sound card to Prelude with a 637SM op amp upgrade... Not sure which sound better? and if cd player is a better route, which cd player should I pick?

Hi guys, I'm trying to make some cables for my coming new speakers and I'm looking at the Canare L-4E6S or the 4S8, 4S8 is labeled as speaker cables which has 4 conductor cores, which is perfect for my bi-amping plan, but I also plan to use left overs to make a cable for my Senn 650... so...

I'm planning to get the Onkyo 9555 integrated amp, but I have a Little Dot MKIV SE head amp which can be used as a pre amp. My question: is it feasible to use a pre amp for an integrated amp which has a volume control to itself? any benefit or drawback of such a set up?

I'm planning to get the Onkyo 9555 integrated amp, but I have a Little Dot MKIV SE head amp which can be used as a pre amp. My question: is it feasible to use a pre amp for an integrated amp which has a volume control to itself? any benefit or drawback of such a set up?