If you have the finances to get the tt2 and the m scaler at the same time, I recommend getting a second-hand Dave instead. It will ultimately form the core of a much better system than the tt2. You will still be able to get an m scaler new or second-hand later.

Hmm... Maybe this isn't a totally mad idea after all 🤔

The nice thing about upgrades is that even though a particular upgrade might not be exactly night and day in itself, the cumulative effect of several upgrades could well be.

Especially just after you lashed out on some of the products we typically consider here 😂

My low-tech solution was to put a small soft lens-cleaning cloth over the light at night. Nowadays I just don't bother as I am used to the light anyway.

Go easy there 🌋 -> 🧊 If you don't like their comments then put them on "ignore" and spare your cardiovascular system the hypertensive hit 😊

By all means run the filter software in real time on your pc or mac. They're is no reason not to do that. I think I would say that that doesn't work for people like me who use a purpose-built music file server, such as Innuous Zen. Those devices cannot run filter software as part of their...

I'm not sure why the people who make this sort of filter don't also sell it as a standalone product through which a user can process a whole library of music files and then play those files back using whatever digital system they choose. I think their potential client base would be significantly...

I seem to remember that it was also an issue of cable length. For short runs RCA is the way to go, for longer runs XLR wins out. I guess it is an issue of longer runs being more liable to ambient electrical noise pickup, which the balanced topology of XLR is designed to suppress.

Being a listener and being a tweaker are not mutually exclusive. It is not a zero-sum game. I love tweaking - if you can call building an entire 300B SET amp a tweak - and I have learned so much. It's been great fun! The innards of the various boxes in audio are much less of a mystery to me...

... the phase of the Moon, whether a black cat crossed your path today or not ...

Wow. That's a bit... gaudy? If it didn't say RAAL on it I'd be thinking it was more merch from the cretins responsible for the Trump sneaker 😀 (🤢)

A critical path for rf noise to travel between the mscaler and the tt2 is via the audio ground connection in the bnc cables connecting the two. So, unfortunately, no. It is necessary additionally either to treat the bnc cables with ferrites which hugely increase the high-frequency impedance of...

The consensus here seems to be that a battery for the mscaler is both a superior and cost-effective solution. My advice is to do that first.

The psvane CV181T are an extremely tight fit, I know as I used to use them. Anything bigger will most probably not fit at all in the original sockets. You can get socket adapters made which could move the driver tubes forward a bit which would give them more space. @Deyan could probably give...

If I lived anywhere near you, I'd help make them!

A very interesting and approachable article, and I recommend it to everyone here.

I don't see any immediate reason why this should affect the sound quality.

Even Einstein was unable to challenge the paradigm that the Universe is mechanical and deterministic - he rejected Quantum Mechanics because "God does not play games with dice" The underlying issue here is not that measurements are useless, it's that the ones on which in audio we usually focus...

The second of the complete paragraphs is brilliant.

Whether a phone can listen to a WiFi hotspot and the datastream from your phone service provider simultaneously depends on the hardware and OS of the phone. For instance, reasonably recent higher end Samsung Galaxy phones can do this but lower end and older Samsungs cannot. Given that you are...

Given that I won't be able to afford the Immanis any time soon this will do in the meantime... 😁 Now to build a high pass filter for the sr1b so they and the subs don't tread on each other's toes...

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Given that the tt2 is designed to drive and is capable of driving efficient speakers, I'd say let the incoming 1266 land and just give it a go! 😀

I use exactly this setup and it works very well. One advantage is that Dave and mscaler can be on separate batteries and so, with an optic link only between them, be completely isolated from each other. Another is that the system is no longer vulnerable to the vagaries of the mains in terms of...