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| Possible to limit Bluesound Node to 44k (redbook)? Thanks so much @oddiofyl. Qobuz allows me to do this and fixed the issue. Plus, it sounds better. Just cancelled my Amazon HD subscription. | |
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? Bought a Schitt Freya+. I liked it, but thought it sounded kinda thin when compared to a modified Aragon 24K SP I have (even with NOS tubes). So I picked up a Sonic Frontiers SFL-2 modified with V-Caps and had it further upgraded by Parts Connexio... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks I like the Rose 150B. It has everything I’d want in a streamer, except I don’t need the DAC (I’d get it anyway because that screen is hard to say no to (outside of all the other benefits). Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 what the benefits of... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks @jabbaman even though I am not a big fan of ASR, I find myself caught between two sides with regards to streaming. Like, a lot of people say they loved their EtherRegen, but ASR was like, "This thing does nothing." Same for some of these audiophil... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks Don't a lot of DAC's and/or streamers solve these problems without needing to purchase all this extra stuff? It's packets of data, correct? 0's and 1's. It seems all this money spent on magic routers and cables and other doo-dads could just be sp... | |
| Best High Current amplifiers stable into low impedances @lanx0003, Not sure on the "current" spec/capacity, but the 8008BB is dual mono rated at 200 watts into 8 ohms and 400 into 4. It has two torodial transformers, each rated at 1.1 kVa. Each channel has two 35,000µ capacitors...which means each ch... | |
| Streamlining streamers Oh, the Aurender stuff looks amazing (and sounded great at a dealer I listened to in Santa Monica recently), but that's beyond my budget ATM. I may just pick up a Bluesound Node for the short term and explore moving up to the Aurender line of stre... | |
| Streamlining streamers Hi @blisshifi, thanks for the response. 1) I am wondering if there’s an option where I have the main streamer with my main system that’s a one-box system where I could somehow send that signal to other systems. 2) Two, listening room is separate... | |
| Best High Current amplifiers stable into low impedances There are a lot of 90's amps that can provide high current. A bunch have been mentioned. Krell, Parasound, McCormack... Aragon is also one that can supply high-current loads. I sold my 8008BB to a guy who had some Martin Logans, and he loved wha... | |
| Anyone Know Where To Get The 4 Big Can Caps? If it's a D400 mkii, I bought one off Ebay and the caps were leaking. Tons of feedback. I sent it to Pyramid Audio in Austin. AR won't touch those anymore (as previously stated). I think the old caps are Philips, but don't quote me on that. When ... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing I remember reading somewhere (and now I forget where) that A/B testing relies on our short term memory, which isn't the best method. Not sure if that's true or not, but I felt it was an interesting point. But that would at least explain why a lot... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? Granted my sample size is small at only one, but I heard people waxing poetic about no preamp. So I ran my Audiolab 8300CDQ directly to my Aragon Palladium 2 monoblocks. It seemed good. Until I hooked a preamp back up. Holy moley, a ton of detail,... | |
| Bought powerful/expensive Amp+Speakers but plan to use an old preamp , am I crazy? Honestly, the only way to truly know is to listen side-by-side with another option. For example, I recently bought a Van Alstine Ultravalve Tube amp for a second tier system (wanted some tube ish) and paired it with a Aragon 24K SP preamp that wa... | |
| Fascinated By GR Research Channel I find what he has to say really interesting. And not only does he "edit" speakers (fixing/improving someone else's design), he also designs speakers. Every once in awhile I wonder if there's too much of a good thing when you tweak stuff (after o... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Lol @ every geezer posting some variation of "Rap is crap" thinking they’re super witty 😂 A lot of you old blokes are doing it wrong. You’re trying to listen to hip hop through your single ended triode amps. What trash. Get yourself an 80’s era b... |