astelmaszek
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| Preamps Freya and LS28 are not even playing the same game. I've got a ton Schitt gear (Freya, Saga, Gungnir MB, Yggy), I've got a ton of AR gear, I've got a ton of Luxman gear. I've had the Schiit integrated. I've replaced it with a Yamaha AS1100 for the ... | |
| A sign of the times? What's a CD? | |
| Preamps @wolf_garcia Of course you can blame the preamp for microphonics. Same tubes in Don Sachs preamp are silent. The tubes are Super Line grade VT231s from Andy at VTS. The chassis on Freya just picks up a lot more vibration than other preamps I've ex... | |
| Preamps @georgehifi Freya is a great piece of equipment but a horrible tube amp. I have a collection of best 6SN7 ever made. Noiseless in my other preamps. Same tubes in Freya make noise. Same with microphonics. The thing somehow picks up all vibration in... | |
| Amp "timing" ? If you don't believe in PRAT, all you have to hear is a SLI-80 in comparison with VSI75. SLI-80 is slow in both directions, rise and decay and the decay is especially wrong, as in it hangs too long, too loud and then just stops. And that basically... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** Here is what I learnt about vinyl after 20 years in this hobby. The more you spend, the better your setup gets, the closer it sounds to a good CD player. Eventually when you blow thru about $30K for table/tonearm/cartridge/preamp/cleaner, you'll g... | |
| Parasound Halo Integrated vs Yamaha AS2100 On the other hand, I never found either my Yamaha A-S2110 or Parasound A51 to be particularly smooth. They both seem to reproduce whatever you feed them fairly neutrally with Yamaha having a tiny edge on overall detail. | |
| Parasound Halo Integrated vs Yamaha AS2100 @helomech Smooth does not mean fatigue free. I've never been able to listen to "smooth" DACs for any period of time for example. Something is just off and my brain tires. Give me any of the Chord DACs that many people find bright, but I find the t... | |
| Looking for great tube integrated for Martin Logan Summit X speakers I mean to say as low as possible of an output impedance | |
| Looking for great tube integrated for Martin Logan Summit X speakers @smills59 If you're really focused on tubes, you need an amp with really, I do mean, really good transformers and as long of an output impedance as possible. I don't know why you're looking at PL or Chronus. There are a few Audio Research VSI75s ... | |
| Differences between cd transports? It's not a matter of believing. There will be a video. Now, of course you don't care. You never let facts get in a way of a good story. But I assure you, the measurements will be the same, they have to be. I only have a nice $500 Fluke multimeter ... | |
| Differences between cd transports? I'm going to make a video later on this week with a GOM-804 on a 250ft spool of canare l-4e6s and post it here. Why the GOM-804? So Geoff can't argue the meter wasn't accurate enough. Can't get my hands on it until Thursday morning. | |
| Looking for Recommendation for AVR @yylc. I beg to differ. Krell was a nice unit then, but so much advancement has been made in DAC chips since that unit came out that it doesn't even stand a chance against the likes of Yamaha RX-A line. Don't even get me started on comparing it ag... | |
| Looking for Recommendation for AVR I'd spend $899 on Yamaha RX-A3060 from accesories4less. You get a warranty and what was a $2000 receiver just a year ago. I have one in my second system and running into a good amp for the two front channels sometimes I wonder if the rest of the s... | |
| Differences between cd transports? @geoffkait Canare makes wire, that's what they sell. They are not a cable company. |