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| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! Since 1968: Lafayette 2-way 8" acoustic suspension. KLH 32 Advent Smaller Advent Loudspeaker Dahlquist DQ10a Double (stacked) Rogers LS 3/5a Quad ESL(57) Celestion SL6 Pro Ac EBS Meridian M20 B&O 8000 Rogers LS 3/5a single Silverl... | |
| Zu Druid 6 Hi John, I haven't heard version 5. My wife has been ill for most of the past year so I've been less in circulation. I want to hear it, as each version has improved in scale, tone, projection and perceived bandwidth. A speaker like the CA 1+1... | |
| Has anyone gone from Tannoy to Zu Audio? You have to think about the Zu speaker line as an elevator lifting you to escalating resolution and pick your stop -- which floor do you want to get off at? Any Dirty Weekend is Zu's lowest-resolution loudspeaker and least neutral. DWs have the Zu... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks Streaming digital music doesn't have to involve extreme componentization and endless tweaking. The dollars invested? Well, there's a lot of latitude there, particularly wrt DACs. I have two suggestions for keeping things simple above Bluesound eco... | |
| For those that have separate Streamers & DACS Auralic Aries G2.1 and G1 streamers are the peak value for that category. 1GB in-memory processing cache and you get to use their Lightning DS control app, which obviates the need for a Roon Core or any other core, sounding better than Roon. In tw... | |
| From separate streamer and DAC to al-in-one suggestion You can get an R2R streaming DAC in the form of the Bricasti M21 or M21 Platinum. The M21 includes three distinct digital processing paths: 1/ Sigma-Delta, including DoP, 2/ R2R, 3/ DSD in analog. Roon recognizes it as an endpoint and the network ... | |
| Class D Integrated Amplifier Recommendations. M2tech Crosby. Get two and run them bridged as monoblocks, for under $3000 total. 180/180w rated, delivers more. They are explosively-lively but very good at microdynamics and deliver a good measure of tone. -Phil | |
| Up to $4000US tower speakers for Jazz and Classical Music In less than a month you will be able to buy the new Zu Union 6 Supreme, starting at $3899. 99db/w/m, 30Hz - 28kHz bandwidth. Non-fussy setup and placement. Vital, vivid, toneful, dynamic, articulate, agile, expansive sound. 60 Days to return if y... | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question The adage that "you are listening to your equipment's power supply" applies. Rectifiers make differences that are easily heard. Which means you have no objective idea which is real. Like lots of other things in hifi, especially tube gear, tube rol... | |
| Will a new Dac improve the sound? Get a used or new MHDT Atlantis R2R dac, or Pagoda if in price range. Get adapters to use 6dj8 family tubes in the 5670 sockets, and get a nice 6922, ecc88, 7308, 6n23P, CCa tube for the output buffer. Your CDP will sound more amazing than you eve... | |
| Suggestions for a streamer only (I have a great DAC) The obvious solution is an Auralic Aries G2.1 streamer. Auralic put extended effort into their wifi implementation to make it quieter and more consistent than ethernet. You can use ethernet but the wifi is great and in fact better. It has a 1gb c... | |
| Zu introduces Soul 6 @kingofgix The Yggdrasil is a good DAC at its price. But if you are planning to spring for that I suggest you consider the mhdt Pagoda Balanced instead. I had a chance to directly compare both R2R DACs for three months. Both have organic, natural ... | |
| Zu introduces Soul 6 @kingofgix Soul VI will take you further in terms of leveraging ongoing evolution of your system and I don't see any reason you can't mate it with your existing system, the W4S DAC probably being the component you'll eventually come to upgrade. B... | |
| Zu introduces Soul 6 @aberyclark The ODS requires the plinth because the Radian 850 used as the supertweeter makes the speaker more top-heavy than standard OD, but the upgrade is well worth it. Much more harmonic grace with the Radian 850. @rhythmnsound If you buy So... | |
| Zu introduces Soul 6 rhythmnsound, I’ll add that I’m a 50+years guitar player and both acoustic and electric guitar sounds are critical to my impression of authenticity. All the Zu speakers do electric guitar via specific guitar amps unusually authentically. Soul Su... |