audioman58
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Think fast: What would you take? Your pets for sure, and maybe the Mrs depending how much grief she gives you !! Kidding aside any hard drive or digital music library ,if not top Favorite hand full of records. | |
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store For one the guy is a jerk for charging and just reduced his chances of selling by st least 50%. I sold audio for years ,never a charge .what is the $$ amount out of curiosity ? | |
Msb dacs why not alot of postings Msb is a very good dac but Waay over priced for less then 1/2: the denafrips terminator + $6500is as good or better ,and I have heard both . | |
12AU7 Genalex or Psvane for Cayin Hybrid Integrated H80A Anyone that doubts runin time on tube ,cables ,or electronics ,Have either a hearing problem, no experience or both !! | |
Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice Be8ng new to tubes my advise, Look at Ayon ,Why they had made in Austria Great build anti resonance machined aluminum not sheet metal great Lundahl transformers very important for Fidelity most important, tube Safety ,Ayon has a Smart bias which ... | |
External DAC? Just check out Denafrips , for $1700 the Pontus is exceptional Vinshine Audio DHL only takes 4-5 day free shipping nothing compares in the $2k range 8 sold my Schiit Yggsdrasil for it . | |
Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice I have owned every type of tube amps out there key questions what are your speakers efficiency,room size, kind of music , how loud spl levelas a Former Audiostore owner these are key .SET is the most pure or direct signal then triode, pentode.SET ... | |
cost no object integrated amps My brother has a Gryphon Diablo he got it for around $15 k I have not found anything at even low $20 k range that sounds that cohesive .having the size to keep things properly isolated and premium parts quality when you are not under price constra... | |
What integrated should I upgrade to? The KI Ruby has a very good blend of a sweet tube like sound but with tons of current on demand .the Ruby is grossly underrated in power it says 100 wpcin fact it is 170wpc into 8 ohms and almost 280 into 4.i have been into audio over 40+ years th... | |
Best CD player under $2000 Denafrips makes excellent products that are very well builtfrom their Ares 2 dac, pontus to terminator + very musically involving Non digital and have a very good transport if you need one Vinshine Audio $$ in Syngapore scroll down page yellow is ... | |
Marantz PM Ki Ruby vs Musical Fidelity M6si I am detailing the parts in the KI Ruby,,I took a quick look inside and I believe there are 2 fuses ,I will be replacing them ,one to the power supply , behind the IEC the wire loom is partially blocking it,and the 1.6 amp T or slow blow ?always b... | |
Marantz KI-Ruby is called PM-12 in Japan... he the US model has the copper clad chassis as well as connectors, | |
What isolation feet under your amp with great result? the Herbies tube dampers are well known, his tall tender feet work very well at absorbing vibration and firm up the imaging for under $60 for 4 they are a $$ excellent buy.i have used comes and bearing type in my system too analyticalsounding , t... | |
Marantz PM Ki Ruby vs Musical Fidelity M6si I had a $6 k Krell vanguard and bought the Marantz ruby integrated .i know the musical Fidelity’s latest 6 , it is fast and pretty musical but the KI Ruby is for sure more fleshed out and involving especially instrumental depth and soundstage dept... | |
What makes a DAC so expensive? If you are newer to audio class leading quality per dollar $$ spent Are Denafrips, tons of awards, Schiit audio, Mytek ,and Bench mark, p.s Audio each one will have a different sonic character ,the most analog per $$ spent a Denafrips R2R... |