I'm excited to delve into the vast amount of info on this forum! Looks like one of the best of its kind on the web...
So I've got the home audio bug (after recently getting out of the car audio side of things) and spent a lot of time researching this weekend.
I think I fell in love with the Dynaco Mk III mono's! Would love to restore a pair and do some slight mods.
As for my background in cars...
I was into the whole "carputer" scene, with emphasis on SQ.
I ran a water cooled dual core AMD on a Gigabyte board with two Asus Xonar sound cards. I ran active crossover (software) using VST plugin thru Audiomulch into a pair of TRU T-4.65 amps feeding 4 pairs of Pioneer 2-way.
Because I was running active X0 in the PC into 8 speakers, I needed the 2 sound cards.
The signal path and RCA's amp inputs were such that all the left channel was low pass and all the right channel high pass.
But that was just the audio part...this carputer could do things that would embarrass a top model Mercedes or BMW! Lol
So now my PC is gonna be the basis of my home audio setup...rough design ideas...
The board is going on a Hammond walnut/aluminum chassis, HDD, pump, reservoir, radiator and PSU will be mounted inside.
Gonna run 192/24 Toslink out of the card into a DAC preamp, then into the Dynaco's.
Speakers...? Maybe build my own.
Rack...? Maple, build my own...
DAC will come last...the Xonar sound card is quite excellent on the analog side.
All of this will be managed on the widescreen using J River Media Center.
By FAR, the best I've see as a digital music/video player! The audio configuration and options are an audio guys wet dream!
This setup will also give me an opportunity to play around with recursive ambiophonice crosstalk elimination (VST plugin in J River).
Been using RACE for a long time on the desktop PC...it really is something you have to experience.
Wow...that got long winded! Sorry...
Lol
So I've got the home audio bug (after recently getting out of the car audio side of things) and spent a lot of time researching this weekend.
I think I fell in love with the Dynaco Mk III mono's! Would love to restore a pair and do some slight mods.
As for my background in cars...
I was into the whole "carputer" scene, with emphasis on SQ.
I ran a water cooled dual core AMD on a Gigabyte board with two Asus Xonar sound cards. I ran active crossover (software) using VST plugin thru Audiomulch into a pair of TRU T-4.65 amps feeding 4 pairs of Pioneer 2-way.
Because I was running active X0 in the PC into 8 speakers, I needed the 2 sound cards.
The signal path and RCA's amp inputs were such that all the left channel was low pass and all the right channel high pass.
But that was just the audio part...this carputer could do things that would embarrass a top model Mercedes or BMW! Lol
So now my PC is gonna be the basis of my home audio setup...rough design ideas...
The board is going on a Hammond walnut/aluminum chassis, HDD, pump, reservoir, radiator and PSU will be mounted inside.
Gonna run 192/24 Toslink out of the card into a DAC preamp, then into the Dynaco's.
Speakers...? Maybe build my own.
Rack...? Maple, build my own...
DAC will come last...the Xonar sound card is quite excellent on the analog side.
All of this will be managed on the widescreen using J River Media Center.
By FAR, the best I've see as a digital music/video player! The audio configuration and options are an audio guys wet dream!
This setup will also give me an opportunity to play around with recursive ambiophonice crosstalk elimination (VST plugin in J River).
Been using RACE for a long time on the desktop PC...it really is something you have to experience.
Wow...that got long winded! Sorry...
Lol
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