audioman58
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| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? It’s pretty easy a buzz 🐝 fuse is a steel zinc combo around 17 on the metals conductivity index. Copper , silver are in the 63 , look up metal conductivity index . some are using super conductive treatments, That help like Graphene. they do mak... | |
| 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... |