audioman58
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| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? In any event the DSD library at one time was mentioned would be in the 100k+ region of classic music of all types ,I was have been patiently waiting for something I now seriously doubt will ever happen if you got even 500 ,mainly orchestral i... | |
| Power Cables Audio advisor , Pangea sig MK-2 awg 14 are very good for under $250 using copper connectors far better then bright brass and 3x more conductivity and use Cardas grade 1 Copper wire. Give him 150 hours to runin a very good value. | |
| Denafrips -Bashing Denafrips New 12th anniversary models They changed a excellent working product ,and I have owned 5 of them My current terminator 2 right before the 12 th, is better in several ways the capacitors which there is over 200 , are nichicon gold tune, ,and another super capacitor which i... | |
| Do I Need A SUT Did you buy the better LTA pre with the Lundahl transformer option ? well worth the $$ and in your unit you have a 3 way dip switch for gain You should be running all the same xlr throughout for best synergy . | |
| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) Linear Tube Audio they make a great preamp get it with the max Lundahl transformer ,order with the 6SN7 tubes , and it also has I believe 12at7 tubes or similar 9 pin tubes ,it was originally designed by tube guru David Burning then improved up... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers Go to partsconnecxion. Buy Neotech awg 14 solid core Occ Teflon wire buy 3 strip the ends and bend the ends and connect the highest purity for under$30 highest purity wire and great sound , you don’t need connectors bend the endsforspadeor bana... | |
| Double up on speaker cables Idont see where it will hurt ,but having 2 different geometries on some frequencies may be phase differently , iguess you will find out. | |
| YouTube star Jay loves McIntosh MC 901 amplifier I am not enamored with him on all his picks , but the Gryphon amp by far his best amp by a long shot. That one I can agree with I’m on but very $$ expensive. | |
| Integrated Amplifiers - Esoteric F-01, Esoteric F-02 or Dan D'Agostino Progression Wh6 are you limited to just them 2 ,they both sound different . there is a excellent Goldman integrated amp asking around $12 k sells for close to 2 x that ,that is a very natural sounding top quality Swiss integrated amplifier. | |
| Borresen X1 & X2 I have heard both and didnot experience that ,that being said for the $2k difference the x2 is the better buy better deeper Bass and a bit more complete. the x1 most likely was not. Runin good at the time. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Having owned a Audiostore and experimentation ,I feel the quality of the source is most important , speakers a close 2nd why ? For the quality of the source is what makes the audio signal ,good or bad , once it goes to the next component it is... | |
| Help, my system seem to have slowly gotten " bright" The reason is especially if you have some older gear is the capacitors are starting. To dry out ,with that you willl start losing detail brightness comes with thst. the vast majority of speakers come with stock lower quality capacitors and resist... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? My wife has the aA 8 and forsure you need a good Ethernet cable from your router ,the most important is going to the A8 at least a $4-500 cable , as as others have said Never use a stock power cord . for low budget the Pangea sig mk2 awg14 big... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? My wife has the aA 8 and forsure you need a good Ethernet cable from your router ,the most important is going to the A8 at least a $4-500 cable , as as others have said Never use a stock power cord . for low budget the Pangea sig mk2 awg14 big... | |
| Ethernet cables Good advise ,get rid of any separate Router modem , tell your provider you need a new all in one , the power supplies are horrible , I bought a motorola 8702 it has docsis 3.1 most have older 3.0. This processor much faster ,and wifi for tv much... |