aj523
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| your first system- 1990 the year I graduated college. A pair of Def Tech BP10’s, a gorgeous built like a tank Pioneer Elite receiver and a Sony ES 5 CD carousel. Purchased from my first experience with a high end retailer called The Listening Room in Scarsdale, NY. ... | |
| What Would Be the Reasoning Behind Leaving Class D Amps On? I have two large wyred4sound class D amps powering my home theater - 3x400 for the fronts and 5x250 for the surrounds. I hooked them up and turned them on in Feb 2012 and they haven’t been turned off since so that’s almost 10 years continually on. | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Get the Allnic matching phonostage. I did my own shootout on phonostages and their impact on the music was undeniable. | |
| Paypal Changes for 2022 For most of us selling used gear, there likely should be a loss, so keep your receipts of purchases which again for most of us are in our outlook, or other online service. If you are fortunate to sell something at a gain, I’m pretty certain you c... | |
| Magico A5, Wilson SabrinaX, or PS Audio FR30? The better value at least in terms of materials is likely the PSA FR30 since they will only sell direct, no dealer markups - so through a dealer like the other two the price would increase to 55k and then you are no longer comparing same price poi... | |
| PS Audio FR-30 Speaker... PS Audio recently sacked all their dealers. So when comparing price performance to other speakers, would that make these more like $50k speakers passing the savings to the consumer or is PS Audio keeping the dealer margin and would have made less ... | |
| PS Audio FR-30 Speaker... @raysmtb1 Re-read their website…:slowly. Returns are at their expense not the customer. | |
| PS Audio FR-30 Speaker... 30 day home trial and free shipping back if you don’t keep them. Can’t go wrong with that. What speaker companies do that anymore? | |
| HiFi vs MidFi When I purchased my very first high end system to replace my Pioneer Elite receiver, I went with a Rotel combo preamp and amp which was the RB1080). I was told countless times by people including dealers that my Rotel was good “mid-fi” stuff. I b... | |
| Single driver vs traditional 3 way loudspeakers Last year, I spent 3 hours on each occasion - critical listening sessions to Charney and the Cube Audio Nenuohar. And I didn’t much like either. There was no intimacy or dynamic range to me. I much preferred multi driver speakers and acquired Harb... | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? Their business in Binghamton, NY is undergoing its largest expansion and they are doing more sales the past 2 years (AC) than ever before in their storied history. Haters gonna hate. | |
| Equipment Report: Linear Tube Audio's New Ultralinear PLUS I went mono with the Zotl40 Reference. Zero power issues incredible control even at 86db sensitivity. | |
| LTA ZOTL40 Reference+ Amplifier @gaal The NOS Mullards EL34 EF2 that Mark found are ridiculous and blow away all their other amps and most others in terms of tonality, texture and overall musicality. At some point they will run out of them, although Mark likes to say there are m... | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. Look it’s easy. Buy one from a place where you can return it. The Cable Company, Music Direct, etc Move on. | |
| RMAF 2021 Cancelled Seems like what happened is that PS Audio who was bankrolling (a large part? of) the show this year and was set to show off their new speaker and massive monoblocks got cold feet and Mr. McGowan decided the top priority was to protect his staff an... |