audioman58
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| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) In guitars vacuum tube amp,in Audio personally Solid state has much similarities , Mosfets , Jfets, bipolar transistors come pretty close in sonics in a good quality solid state amps ,and more current ,control for drivers and sounds very good , if... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Whatever they want , I used to have 6 amps and custom woofers,in back and over 1500 watts , not to good have that much sound in a small area after I sold the car , we just have the premium sound in the new Volvo X90 the Mrs says good enough .thi... | |
| Preamp caps Jupiter copper foil or Jupiter HT worth double the money? I have over 20 years modding and even better then Duelund I have found Jupiter copper foil with 2-3% vh audio Cutf Teflon Copperfoil cap combo, once settled in after 400 hours sounds Great land I have tried all the heavy hitters out there. | |
| Supply chain affecting anyone? Bricasti is one U.S made company that has had everything available and within 2 weeks shipped and great company to work with, another one I bought from this year was also a U.S companyCoda and it was 3-4 weeks . Wireworld U.S company no problem .... | |
| Anyone dislike Ohm Walsh speakers? My biggest dislike is the horrible build quality ,I helped a guy upgrade the Xover ,what pure garbage parts , even a electrolytic capacitor which is a cardinal sin fir a Loudspeaker Xover .and even the drivers all China specials , if you spend A f... | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? I put 1/3 rd into speakers since they are what determines the Sonic outcome and it’s quality in build,drivers,and Xover are what determines its tonal accuracy and naturalness .$10-20kThe Source such as the dac $5-7 k is equally important in quali... | |
| Interesting experience with two very different speaker designs Why not check out Spatial audio labs ,they are well engineered . | |
| Recommended streamers/servers? A excellent dac+ streamer board is the Bricasti M3 retail is $ 6500, give Perrotta consultants a call and ask Him what is his best price is , it has a lot of high quality for the money and many excellent reviews. | |
| Why are there no tube televisions anymore? The technologies are far better with OLED tv then anything from the past much lighter, no tubes to replace , and can mount it on the wall ,everything is far better and still improving . | |
| Who Were Your Mentors Paul Klipsch, I met him at our local Audio store in CTexplaining audio and hooking up a Khorn to a 9 v pocket radio 📻 and and could not believe the output from a $7 pocket radioin around 1978 from memory. I then bought my first Audiophile speaker... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard That smell Lynyrd Skynard , Nights in white satin and the orbLandslide ,the cats and the cradle Let it be the sound of silenceprofound but all are different reflections of life every is open to interpretation. | |
| If your down on your system… For myself going down in quality from $100 k systems to $30-$40 k for similar performance is the challenge .I am now semi retired and now have to plan for big purchases like loudspeakers next but even $20 k can take me over a year to save . You ca... | |
| 16 bit vs 24 bit vs 35 bit vs 36 bit vs 64 bit DAC sampling The actual true limit in bits is 20 for digital , the recast are extra bits that fillin a guesstimate , there are plenty of high tech white papers from Mojoaudio , Schiit Audio that explain in-depth dontget caught up in that it’s engineering qua... | |
| My Experience With Tekton Having owned a Audio store for 10 years I can speak through experience ,Loudspeakers on average only 25% of the total cost of the speaker actually goes into the speakers including build and boxed meaning maybe $450 actually went into the speaker ... | |
| Audio Research and Acme Audio Labs fuse Myself and friends tested fuses, cheap buzz fuses ,including Acme fuses can vary up to 15+% of the rated value ,premium fuses much more accurate within 1-2% , I use slightly bigger under 1/4 amp difference in a premium fuse at most Time fuses ha... |