2psyop
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| Amplifier to complete a 7.1 channel system w/great stereo music performance? You could also do this, depending how much you live in the digital world. You could get Parasound A21 and pair it with a good, but simple preamp. You could get tge integrated Parasound which is a truly great piece of gear. You could get a Bluesoun... | |
| Amplifier to complete a 7.1 channel system w/great stereo music performance? I will dive in. Go with the Parasound A21. I have this amp and it has been the best 2 channel amp I have owned. Better than Odyssey Stratos, McCormack DNA-125 and a few others. It is a beast and John Curl is an excellant amp engineer. It should ma... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! You are really not buying recordings you are renting them. MQA is a streaming format, don’t know anyone who is downloading the music, although I suppose some are. Also when artists were losing money and recording companies were losing money (see m... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! Many people have complained that record companies are making $$$ from MQA. I don’t know how this is a bad thing? For many years around 2000, companies were allowing music sharing, think Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa and Limewire. The big deal was artis... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature II: Is it worth the price of $2700? Why are so many for sale? I have the 2ce Sig II. I had done what I offered as advice to the OP when I purchased the Vandersteen. I picked out audio shops within a 90 mile radius of my home and went listening to all brands. KEF, Klipsch, Totem, Magnepan, Paradigm, and at le... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! So you compared a streamed MQA track to a downloaded track, yes? I thought the point of MQA was the streaming part???? | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! Willemj, yes I see FLAC is lossless, my error. I have used AIFF files. Does anyone stream DSD or hi-res PCM files? I get the point about does MQA sound better. But that is very subjective, and more importantly I am looking at it as a streaming opt... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! Yes....for now. MQA seems to fire up alot of people. Many people hate this format because they lose bits. Many people don’t like a flawed format being shoved down their throat, even though Flac, a lossy format and downloads of hi-rez files are eas... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature II: Is it worth the price of $2700? Why are so many for sale? Speakers are very subjective. One has to LISTEN for oneself to make opinions about sound. Richard Vandersteen is an intelligent speaker designer, but a potential buyer must still have a LISTEN to his speakers before making judgements. Often times,... | |
| What is your listening chair? geoffkait- Yeah I like the sound, not changing the Poang. A few people here like the chair too, and bought one. Just noticed the other members chairs that I admire and find interesting.Would you like to share what you have, since that was the ques... | |
| What is your listening chair? So....you guys have some nice chairs. I like the Poang(s) but I am feeling a little inadequate now. | |
| What is your listening chair? Maybe another Chevy Silverado seat could be affixed to the audio room floor. That would be cool!!! Haha | |
| Bluesound Node 2 vs. Auralic Aries Mini Both the Aries and Bluesound have a strong following and neither one would be a bad choice. I think some give the Aries the slight advantage with SQ, but I have the Node 2 and it really sounds terrific compared to my CD player with a Benchmark DAC... | |
| Anyone own or heard of PrimaLuna? +1 on the Line Magnetic Audio gear. It is stellar. I had listened to the Primaluna amps in my local AV Home Theater retail shop and the salesmen would not demo for me, just too interested in the home theater customers. I think it sounded great in ... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers A great quote about seeing- “We see what is behind our eyes, not what is in front of them”. Us humans make up, in our minds, what is beautiful. This process is cultural, part of your own personal upbringing, and what your aesthetics, bias, attitud... |