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| Tube amp/integrated with bass grip for Aerial 7Ts @adg101 ARC LS28/VT80SE has now been in the system connected to the Aerial 7Ts for a couple of months. No regrets. Drives them with ease well past comfortable volume levels. Bass is actually as good as it is with luxman which is to say superb and ... | |
| DAC/Streamers Under 10k - Mytek, PS Audio... 35 dollar google chrome going into any of Chord's DAC will sound as good as any other streamer going a Chord's FPGA DAC. Save on a streamer, get Auralic Aries feed it over USB and a Google Chrome Audio to feed it over TOSLINK and spend the money o... | |
| Streaming Quality Test - Lumin U1 vs. PS Audio Direcstream DAC vs Bridge II You're not going to see much of a difference in a DAC like DirectStream or any of the latest Chord DACs. They are more or less immune to jitter and other streaming artifacts as they feed the data into memory first in the FPGA chip. For all intents... | |
| Got a line on NOS tubes If you're getting a primaluna amp you owe it to yourself to find some Amperex DD getter EL34s. It's the best EL34 I've ever heard, I personally like it more than NOS Genalex KT88s | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money Magic of super expensive cables. LOL. How about Canare? They'll give you about 110% of that magic as they will faithfully reproduce what's going into them instead of acting as an EQ like most expensive cables. | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? I'll second the Aerial 5Ts. One of the best bookshelf speakers created and with the front port placement is easy. Imaging/soundstage depth are as good as it gets.As to bass, I don't think new recordings overemphasize bass, especially as compared t... | |
| Best audio companies and dealers Let's not forget Michael Kelly and Aerial Acoustics. Their gear, while expensive, easily compares to speakers 3 times the price and 20 years after I've bought my first 5Bs they had a replacement twitter in stock after my toddler decided to experim... | |
| New Audiogon equipment search format. WTF just happened? | |
| Prima Luna Integrated - EL34, KT88, KT150, Brimar AU - My experience I've yet to find a tube that sounds better than NOS amperex/valvo DD getter el34 in a primaluna amp. Bass as good as a kt150 with that lovely el34 midrange bloom. As far as nos go, you can still find a quad under 400 unlike kt88s where genalex now... | |
| Integrated amp + dac for Focal Sorry, didn't see you wanted a built in DAC, my bad | |
| Integrated amp + dac for Focal Luxman l590ax | |
| Tube amp/integrated with bass grip for Aerial 7Ts @shredder I had Ayre AX-5/20 for a while. Ayre has never done anything for me. No matter what speakers I hooked up to it, it sounds like my desktop system which usually is some high end studio monitors. Doesn’t sound like live music, sounds like I... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. I question the sanity of anyone mastering with Cary 211 FE. Nice tube amp (had a pair for a while), but in no way does it reproduce what goes into it. It's a distortion machine. Get a pair of Genelecs. | |
| Impedance Matching Question I'm sure if you look around you find an iTube around $200 soon enough, | |
| Interconnects and non-believers Teo, if you can hear in the 1mhz range, I'm calling the man in black on you, but on a serious note, you're selling snake oil. 250khz cannot travel more than a meter in air, 1mhz maybe a centimeter or two. Entirely not applicable to human hearing. ... |