audioman58
Responses from audioman58
| New Product RE: Denafrips 12th Anniversary Edition Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC) After seeing Denafrips not using top quality Capacitors anymore having been into modding my equipment ,and having owned a Audio business I known internal parts quality well , they used to use the Excellent Swiss silmic caps, and Nichicon Gold fr... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality Buy a top modem router combo ,the motorola 8702 is very good it has Docsis 3.1 but a good Linear power supply ,4 amp and up 12 volt , the Linear Tube Audio is the best LPS under $1200 for $750 a steal and makes a very good improvement and I ... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions Buy a Ayon They are far better built , and micro processor controlled , when a tube goes out a led comes on and you just replace that one tube , it monitors each power tube, regular amplifiers all tubes are just averaged. So many more disast... | |
| What Horn loaded speaker/ speaker system for $10k'ish and under Spatial audio labs they use the very good Beyma Big AMT horn tweeter-midrange and dual 10 or twelve inch drivers and a very refined open baffle speaker over 92 db and right in your price range, and 45 day home audition. | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Musician audio Pegasus ,and Draco both are R2 R Dacs I heard both ,the Draco is the cheapest at $750the Pegasus around $1k better then the Aries 12-1 or anything in its price IMO.. it’s a good. 1st Audiophile dac on a budget ,both take a min... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? A minimum of $750 and up keep in mind a $800dac has under $200 in total including the box that’s roughly the average , audio cables much more so still. | |
| Duelund DCA12GA 600Vdc used as speaker cable: first impressions I have used this cable it’s warm but not the last word in detail especially low level detail, the Wireworld eclipse I compared it to the Wireworld is a awg9 cable but besides that the Wireworld is a better balanced cable ,the same applies to their... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions A used Pass Labs 1st watt 25 WPC in pure class A would work just fine and give nice detail and warmth with plenty of power on tap ,I used with87 db Dynaudio speakers . Plenty of good reviews. | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? I always use a SPL meter as long as your peaks are not sustained over 90 db then you are ok which I keep my rock at most 85 db steady and 95 db peaks but not often | |
| Hegel H160 -> Hegel H390 upgrade suggestion No vintage equipment can go toe to toe with the New Hegel integrated amps , pits very respectable , my only knock is that they assemble in China ,no need for Thst just to make much bigger profit , Luxman don’t ,or Pass Labs and the Krell 300i i... | |
| Hegel H160 -> Hegel H390 upgrade suggestion You have pass labs, and Luxman ,as well as Ayre . the assembly in China with the Hegel totally turned me off when I was found that out a couple years ago the above don’t have a inner dac but higher quality layout inside imo. | |
| Hegel H160 -> Hegel H390 upgrade suggestion Hegal is just coming out, with the New 600 so I imagine the newer better smaller version will be out too. | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps If you had a sensitive speaker like a Spatial audio , or Klipsch Lascala 1 watt would be plenty at over 104 db efficiency. | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Having 40 years in Audio I speak by experience. by far the best value as well as quality are the hand built SET 300 B amplifiers by Vacuum tube Engineer,designer Radu Tarta . You would have to spend 3-4x as much $$ money to = his build qualit... | |
| RIP Tom Jones RIP Tom , I met him several times when I had my Audio store in the U.K i would see him at the Heathrow show back in the 200s He owned some Manley gear and he and Eva were friends ,he was friends with Elvis ,Frank Sinatra, and many others a great ... |