audioman58
Responses from audioman58
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Teajay what is the Price $$ it most important to most working class people ? | |
| Fleetwood deville impressions -Mixed bag vs the competition Way overpriced nothing special here but the roasted wood , warm sounding realistically $10 k with stands and they are still making a nice profit some of these designers think they are gold ,for similar $ monies the MBL 126 destroy these as well... | |
| Anybody use a 5687 tube inplace of a 6sn7? 5687 is a 9 pin I stand to be corrected I was referring to a 5692. and 10,000 hours for Any tube is not common or likely . a 6sn7 has a different Sonic characteristic ,for sure worth checking out especially matched NOS tubes. | |
| Anybody use a 5687 tube inplace of a 6sn7? Yes I have in facti had bought a pair within 300. Hours one tube blew and itwas a sylvania but construction looks like a RCA 4 post military tube don’t believe theBS they or others are 10,000 hour tubes absolutely not the norm at most $200 a p... | |
| Accuphase E-5000 factory power cord good enough? No stock power cord is any good at minimum at least a $1k powercord is needed to get thebest out of the5000. | |
| Borresen Loudspeakers I know the X3 very well they are very good but limited on low bass ,in room maybe a clean 38 hz , I can see using 4.5 inch drivers for mids but midBass low bass at least at minimum 6.5 inch driver to truly pressurize a room, the mass of the bass ... | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming I bought the motorola 8702 which has docsis 3.1 it’s faster has a bigger buffer, what’s very important is that junk $5 wall wart ,you need a linear power supply I bought on Audiogon the Linear Tube Audio LPS and its excellent much cleaner soun... | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? Tell 61 to take a break , he is just baffled because of the lack of interest. put a ad on u.s audio mart and add a review link and a OBO ,someone will buy it but you may have to lower the price ,which version is it ?you didnot mention That ,if ... | |
| Accuphase E380 or E4000 integrated amp important from Japan The E 4000 is newer and better ,not seen on eBay converter as often lately. | |
| What’s the best DAC < 6k (system specific) I pin my multi state audio get togethers it’s been unanimous the T+A 200 dac-preamp by a large amount is better then Not only Anything in its price class but betters most anything at 2x it’s price ,find a dealer where you can audition one .I a... | |
| Started with $1k speakers … what now? Having owned a Audio store and modding Loudspeaker Xovers for over 20 years sadly even at $10k Xovers are average at best , why because of $$ less then 50% of the cost goes into the speaker ,R&D overhead and markup including all packagin... | |
| Tube Integrated Amp Recommendation Ayon is built to a higher standard then most judt compare the case a nice machined aluminum , made in Austria Mundorf coupling capacitors The excellent Lundahl transformers and chokes which is the heart of a tube amp all tube sockets and con... | |
| What makes One Music Server Sound Better than Another? Inside the capacitor type effects the sound ,also bellison power regulators are very clean but add a bit of warmth the power supplies also can dictate sound quality there are many internal items especially too the quality and brand of Ethernet c... | |
| Favorite Obscure Rock Song Going back to around 1960 Roy Buchanan the Jam part 1 and 2 which he didnot even get credit for . Frigid Pink - Summer time blues | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? If making your own cables just go to vh audio and buy some decent Furutech Copper gold connectors and Furutech has several grades of high purity cables which is far better then just plain insulated wire. |