antigrunge2
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| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? @unsound ,+1 | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? ‘Tactful’, such a nicely ambiguous word in this context…. | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? Sluggish and fat: no leading edge or decay. Wallbanging greatness. Muscle amps like muscle cars: good in a straight line | |
| SET the best? @atmasphere,AREN‘t you tooting your horn just a little too much? OTLs are great but only address a very small portion of speakers with high efficiency and high impedance. That may or may not be everybody‘s fare and your implied claim of superiorit... | |
| SET the best? I have yet to find a better amp than my Wavac EC300b. Anyone who has listened to a good high efficiency speaker driven by a good SET, lest they are Harvey Wallbanger won’t go back to anything else. That said, I‘d love to listen to the AGD Audion c... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend At the risk of being repetitive: it is much more the implementation of the individual design than the basic architecture (R2R, FPGA, Delta Sigma)that differentiates dacs: i.e. quality of clocking and power supplies( foremost), quality of the noise... | |
| Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith Innuos are quite clear that they use lower powered chips to achieve lesser noise interference and better sound quality. Obviously that will run counter Roon‘s processor-heavy design including DSP. The fact of the matter though is that Innuos Squee... | |
| Ethernet and USB cables @clearthinker,for the umptiest time: it isn’t the errors in bit transmission but rather spurious EMI/RFI or ground level noise travelling alongside the bits and messing up the d/a conversion that good cables can address. | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? @rauliruegas,On this one I respectfully disagree: I run a Zyx Universe through a Zyx Artisan stage. When inserting an Altec TBB-103 based SUT that Bob made it gives a substantial leap in performance: faster, more soundstage and definition of instr... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? @rauliruegas,Touché! | |
| Ethernet and USB cables It‘s not just the quality of cables, it is also majorly their length. This applies particularly to USB where RFI/EMI incursion is a major problem. For what it‘s worth, I had major benefits from using a short (25cm) Intona Reference cable between s... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? auditorium23 make a very highly rated SUT for low output MCs | |
| Tube dampener questions Tube dampeners work best if the amp has good vibration control itself. That requires an effective combination of feet and tube sockets. In my experience EAT on small signal tubes and Duende Critura on everything else work best and their contributi... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? @atmasphere,MCs point on transmitting vibration from the cartridge body to the tonearm is seminal. The design of The Cartridgeman‘s Insulator is precisely addressing that issue while avoiding your concern of cartridge displacement by choosing a po... | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? At the risk of further complicating the issue: while both Takatsuki and EAT comfortably beat my TJ Full Music meshplates, in my Wavac EC300b there is a strong effect dependent on the recifier tube used. While the EATs prefer to be driven by Tungso... |