audioman58
Responses from audioman58
| What Integrated Amp do You use Hello The Coda is a very smooth but dynamic amplifier I have 18 1st watts in pure class A then 150,8 ohms 300,4 ohms I use modded Elac Vela speakers 86 db , and tried on my brothers spatial audio open baffle X3 speakers 97 db efficient as well a... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use I use the Exceptional U.S made Coda CSIB integrated ampit has 3 power choices all doubling down into 2 ohms.the lowest power 150,300,600 has the highest amount of pure class A -18 first watts , these guys are very understated ,stereotimes best of ... | |
| Before I order the Magnepan 1.7s... I have owned Maggis from 1.6.1.7 not much difference, just Xover point ,and owned 3.6 also much more cohesive. They are made so dam cheap though you would think in 20 years they would give you at least a decent loudspeaker terminal , that cheap N... | |
| PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best. Not in a million year , I owned their top dac and opened the unit up cut my finger on the cheap thin sheet metal and inside half empty what a joke ,I bought the night and day better built as well as sounding Bricasti M3 dac , with $1k streamer car... | |
| New to Integrated stereo tube amps Ayon has by far the best tube management out there it has a microprocessor that monitors each tube and regulates each tube for premium MA current , when a tube does fail the unit goes into stand by ,and a led lights up telling you which tube is at... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream For build quality ,made in MA. U.SA. Machined billet aluminum case Classic AD 1955 laser trimmed dual Multibitbit dacs ,separate modules for dsd conversion ,separate linear power supplies and Streamer card for $6500Bricasti M3 dac with analog pr... | |
| Power cord choice? Make your own get good Furutech Copper good connectors and buy Furutech nano fluid bulk wire it will compete with $1200cables for less then 1/2 that cost. | |
| Amanero audio drivers Exactly the driver was corrupted ,you could uninstall it but then reinstall would get hung up a tech had to fix several sub directoriesi got so mad I sold the dac ,a new audio gd R8 mk2 R2Rdac thst sounded very respectable and bought a Bricasti ... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality Agreed you are rarely getting master recordings but QObuz has hirez masters as well as Tidal just not that much maybe 10% or less , as I stated in a previous email , if the dac you have is doing it’s job correctly Bricasti for example is known f... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality I have over 40 years in Audio as well as owning a Audio store I have owned pretty much 90% of most designs out there .a cd was great in its day ,but today Waay outdated .a disc wobbles even a small amount ,is magnified and error correction needs t... | |
| Lack of Lamm customer service? Lamm is very arrogant and way over priced , I was shocked when I popped the cover on a $20 k preamp a few years back .A very gifted engineer but Way too frugal at your expense.since I have been into high end mods for over 20 years, he uses many a... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Being from McIntosh assuming the digital is good you could not be more wrong ,since theysold their company out went the Audiophiles and part of their integrity .some are in part made in China ,only their upper end is made in NY,and digital is by ... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream I have found if you want a streaming system on par with a good cd setup or hard drive , wifi is not as good ,direct Ethernet cable for sure ,then you need good filtering a good streamer and dac is a must , right before your streamer you need a Et... | |
| Review on the Rockna Audio Wavelight Pre/DAC just went up on Stereo Times Please remember with latest firmware upgrade on another still just out In June -21 | |
| Review on the Rockna Audio Wavelight Pre/DAC just went up on Stereo Times Nice new reviewhttps://headmania.org/2021/03/22/rockna-wavelight-dac-review/ |