audioman58
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| Have I Found the Holy Grail of Audio Systems? My Surprising Discovery Hey Jack dad I was making a point mainly on the Xover ,for the vast majority of even expensive loudspeakers don’t put in top Xover parts i have over 20 years into this and it bugs me when mfg make tons of monies then sacrifice better potential... | |
| Have I Found the Holy Grail of Audio Systems? My Surprising Discovery The Xover is decent but not even close to the top look at humble homemade hifi capacitor test 15 being the best score what capacitors or resistors are in yours ? Path audio ,and Mundorf ultra are by far the2 best resistors which are $30 ea... | |
| Hegel H390 DAC That dac is decent ,if you have the $$ the T+A 200 dac - preamp is much better on every level so good I am purchasing one soon , and through our audio multi state audio get together I have heard most everything up to insane monies.the T+A 200... | |
| Rediscovery I find steaming far more rewarding ,after you spend at least what a good turn table setup would cost Digital sounds better presently I am almost there . I use a used term8nstor2 dac which is very good ,but the T+A 200 dac is in another league o... | |
| Pass Labs Preamps with tube amps? Normally a SS amp then a good tube preamp check out Linear Tube Audio they make a excellent tube preamp with 6sn7 , plus additional tubes you can use , if xlr you can get too theLundahl C core transformer option , exceptionally well made Davi... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 Have owned a audio store for a decade I can say these ultra expensive $2500+ interconnects ,power cords, speaker cables ,digital yes maybe a few % points better then a $1500 interconnects . is paying double for say 3% worth it , in truth if yo... | |
| best cost no object single unit streamer/dac combo you have ever heard? Between Wadax ,and DCS both approach $100 k Goodwin Audio | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. Impossible , for mood , time of day ,just too many options. | |
| Martin Logan vs. Everything I owned them and even modded the Xovers to better parts ,they don’t have the dynamic impact and imaging is a bit diffuse ,soundstage is though very big ,sound labs are a much better speaker ,much bigger but has its own section for highs,mids,a... | |
| "Diminishing Returns" In your case being myself an ex dealer your dac streamer for sure could use a big upgrade a innuos server,streamer with LPS , your router 100%should have a good LPS the junk wall wart Thst come with modem - router combo are normally 12 v 4 amp ... | |
| DACed and Confused here... For $1500 you may get a streamer ,for around $2k a pretty respectable dac the the Pangea 2 12 th anniversary no combos they are crap, and please keep in mind At least decent Ethernet cables minimum $200 + each as well as a good good usb cable.Eth... | |
| power amp ideas for less than $3000 https://www.stereophile.com/content/parasound-halo-21-power-amplifier | |
| power amp ideas for less than $3000 Parasound 21+ is a excellent amplifier perrottaConsultants excellent service and pricing you can get for-under $3k. | |
| ???Modern Speakers???Life Expectancy??? No problem the newer Xovers 20 years on the capacitors . | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used Final touch audio Callisto you can buy new for $650:and just read the reviews I have this in my 2 nd system built totally out of the norm analog-digital cable 👍 |