Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread Golden Earring
left channel wrote: > :-) Everyone wants to date my avatar. https://youtu.be/urNyg1ftMIU > Especially the blokes over on PinkFishMedia. I don't look a lot like Jude Law (from -Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow- vintage) or Eric Clapton (-c-. 2000 CE), both of whom I use on t'interweb as

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofer recomendations

2018-04-05 Thread Golden Earring
Mnyb wrote: > I will also consider dual subs , this is said to give smoother in room > response . Heartily agreed - you can't hear the stereo effect, even so wiring up dual subwoofers in parallel distributes the bass energy around your room dynamically (with the recorded stereo effect) &

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread left channel
Golden Earring wrote: > I don't look a lot like Jude Law (from -Sky Captain & The World Of > Tomorrow- vintage) or Eric Clapton (-c-. 2000 CE), both of whom I use on > t'interweb as avatars, either! > > ... I don't look like my V-Moda model either. I just warned a rather impertinent bloke on

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofer recomendations

2018-04-05 Thread Mnyb
Yes the sub is often the most abused part in the system without many realising it . So headroom is good they distort a lot too when driven to hard . My small Meridian 5200 is not the loudest thing you can buy , but even then they do at least >105dB ish ? And there are 3 of them with the front

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread Golden Earring
Hi both! I have an external Mytek Brooklyn DAC which I *insist* on using with my Transporter, despite the scorn heaped upon me by the "experts" on this forum, because it most definitely sounds better to me than using the built-in DAC which was "magic" (per Sean Adam's own marketing hype in 2005

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofer recomendations

2018-04-05 Thread Golden Earring
Mnyb wrote: > Don't know but i think my audiophile card is revoked :D I reckon that *-all-* of our cards have been revoked by now... ;) Dave :cool: Golden Earring's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofer recomendations

2018-04-05 Thread bakker_be
Mnyb wrote: > The BK monoliths looks very similar to the REL I’ve already have at 1/2 > the price 14 years later . > > I will also consider dual subs , this is said to give smoother in room > response . That's because BK Electronics used to design and build the REL subwoofers

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread Golden Earring
left channel wrote: > Thanks for that, Golden Earring. Stayed with you all the way. I think > the moral of the story is that an external DAC offers SQ improvement, > even for the Transporter which is after all 12 year-old tech, and > upgrading the power supply for an external DAC often offers

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread left channel
Thanks for that, Golden Earring. Stayed with you all the way. I think the moral of the story is that an external DAC offers SQ improvement, even for the Transporter which is after all 12 year-old tech, and upgrading the power supply for an external DAC offer further SQ improvement. Mytek in fact

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] TeraDak Power Supply for Touch

2018-04-05 Thread left channel
Golden Earring wrote: > Shame that you're so far from Blighty all the way over in Silicon Valley > - I'm rather taken with your avatar, lol! > > Dave :cool: :-) Everyone wants to date my avatar. https://youtu.be/urNyg1ftMIU Especially the blokes over on PinkFishMedia.