audioman58
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| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? Without any hesitation and a Best Buy the Borresen X3 they will play down into low to mid 30 hz in Bass and well over 50khz in that wave guide Ribbon tweeter exceptional detail and Big soundstage and 90db efficient a no brainer I have heard a l... | |
| MBL 101E If more then 5 years old no , the leads tend to break on the mids tweeter on older models, newer ones not so. | |
| USB DAC cable over 15ft - Solutions? Just use a longer Ethernet cable from the router if possible then the best one at the streamer. | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration I have my surge protection at the breaker box a Siemens then vh audio has a great one with surge power factor connection you connect just on your dedicated audio circuit . breakers should be changed every 3-4 years ,unless you have silver plate... | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration Puritan works but they go cheap at the connectors using low conductivity Brass on you tube I see people upgrading the Ring contacts with Furutech , land for sure the AC contacts should be gold over Copper . I wrote to them many times Totally ig... | |
| Shocked. Need Opinions. How muck power do I need? Always have much more power then you need ,good rule of thumb for if playing loud you don’t want to be going into transformer saturation and distortion , they say in transients you can have 10 x the power for short burst in transients millisec... | |
| unbeatable Class A integrated A no brainer the Vitus 25 watt Class A i have heard this several times it is by any standard exceptional. Vitus builds to a far higher standard then pass, Luxman,Coda , Accuphase is in their class about $25k if you can afford it well worth look... | |
| Dirty little secret of Pedigreed, decades old Speaker line - no one will address Just getaway from them , if youwant great trickle down technologies Borresen X3 !X2,x1 Loudspeakers great price and value or go to their up end lines great sounding speakers. | |
| Accuphase Amp Burn In My friend spoke with a engineer working in Japan and 150 hours starts the settling in process and gets better to 300 hours | |
| Hearing aid question Buy a good set of headphones. Then all is good | |
| Looking for a streaming DAC around 4k If you dont mind putting the lps power supply behind Then linear tube audio makes a better lps thats better And 1/2 the price on Audiogon only $700 | |
| Looking for a streaming DAC around 4k Why difny you just buy the much better eversolo dmp8 That has a much better dac and lps power supply And just put it is the slow roll off filter ? You might be better with separates The latest pontus 12 th anniversary dac, And innuos entry le... | |
| Very faint hiss from tweeter The Schitt freya + if using tubes the hiss is from the tubes ,on position 2 SS mode on preamp it shouldnot do this. | |
| Quandary No if its not the exact amp it will sound different No $300 to audition .if you like it the $300 is deducted You should get 15% off | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? Wav take up much more space, the key more so is the quality of the recording it is a fine line ,I just use Flac files ,but do have a few files with Flac and wav files ,the differences is so small it is not worth taking up all that extra space IM... |