audioman58
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| Magnepan, Best midrange? I owned pretty much everything out there I am leaning on the exceptional Marten Loudspeakers they now have models that most can afford and top quality throughout. The Oscars are their entry level they have SB acoustics make the ceramic drivers t... | |
| Recommendations for speakers that sound great at lower volume levels. For great new Higher end speaker Marten Oscars very good across the board and very fair priced vs the competition and noticeably better IMO. | |
| Floor-standing vs Book-shelf from upper line up? Ask around to dealers a used, demo pair of Marten Parker Trios would be great I saw a pair sell for $12500 this past month a Great speaker ,I heard compared head to head with a Magico A5 the Marten was for sure more defined and musical the Only do... | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and A fantastic speaker you can get around $10 k or lessthe Latest Marten trio from Sweden they can compete with speakers if much higher cost a true Bargain and quality built throughout. | |
| Class A Power in A/B amplifiers? If referring to vacuum tubes a SET amplifier I believe is around 9 watts Max In a 300 B amp amplifier ,you can get 18 watts in a class A parallel circuit from my experience from my Tube. Expert friend Radu. | |
| Class A Power in A/B amplifiers? Coda is a very old school Company Threshold Nelson Pass - his engineers when Nelson decided to go Solo became Codathey offer 3 power variants like the excellent CSIB integrated amp the preamp is in pure classA ,Mosfet,and FET the separate Ampli... | |
| How to know if GAN-fet amp and Lyngdorf 2170 (as a Pre and Dac) are compatible How the amp is built has nothing to do if it will work ,It has more to do with its Sonic signatures and which you are looking for. | |
| High Quality dac with network streamer saves $1,000s Why not join QObuz ,and get Roon to organize the Millions od songs ?which there are high quality radio stations ,Audirvana is great sonics and many radio stations ,if using USB and windows it has Kernal streaming which is its best sounding, for et... | |
| High Quality dac with network streamer saves $1,000s By using a switch that cleans and isolates your Ethernet line is a repeatable experiment , there are very pricy ones out there up to $3k ,for under $650:, the uptone audio Ether regen has many positive reviews and I feel money well spent.by far t... | |
| Power cord supplied with Luxman L-509X Integrated Amp You have to buy a quality power cord to extract further from your audio system. The companies just give you a cable period .pits up to you to decide which cable sounds good for you . | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ Unless you have spent years and 1,000s of hours listening And comparing parts quality then you speak out of blind ignorance Period ,I will waste no more time On guys that barely can figure out how to hook up a cable .decisions are based mainly on ... | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ Henry201 your garage builder -no comment , my point is having owned a Audio store and being involved personally with many mods it is just my opinion and knowledge base over 20 years that the-speaker can be much better with a Xover upgrade ,not... | |
| Audio deals you bought that seem impossible for the price? Buying searching out the gems quality ,brand,build quality then totally upgrading myself 20 years modding xovers ,the weakest link in well over 80% of loudspeaker so important being the central nervous system of a Loudspeaker the mfg feels ok is ... | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ Henry 20 years of extensive Xover parts comparison is more extensive then most companies have been in business. The Xover is the ♥️ of all loudspeakers and the most most understood and overlooked .for-they are hidden ,and MFG are always trying t... | |
| So where should the tubes be? Isolid state has evolved a lot ,fet, mosfets have several characteristics like tubes no more bright sounding ,thst being said a tube preamp is my favorite spot , too much tubes a bit too soft on leading edge . I prefer SS the dynamics control and ... |