audioman58
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| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps With solid state vs tubes tubes take on more even harmonics when there are peaks ,Solid state in theory odd harmonics which are peaks that is why Mosfets by character character can be warmer or look at pass labs specs just to see what is in the... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Start with buying much better equipment , such as Pass labs, Coda Boulder Gryphon, Goldman, Hegel , Naim ,Luxman and many others myself I bought the excellent Coda CSIB integrated amp which is high bias in pure class A , with many amps or preamp ... | |
| Doubt about coil (inductor) and capacitor! If you have a resistor you can go up one bigger value a small step a time until it gives you the preferred result . | |
| I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters I have the porcelain type $25 each and do the job done deal ! | |
| Upsizing Capacitors It depends where you are referring to . IHave been into Loudspeaker mods for years ,and without question are upgrades in Sonic performance ,with Capacitors Resistors sometimes inductors, wiring, connectors. For the vast majority of Loudspeakers... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing You did not mention what amps you had before, And cost $2-3k ? | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 The McIntosh for looks, the Ampzilla for sonics. McIntosh has gone down in quality control as well as quality in the last 4-5 years sadly , when a foreign company bought them ,the true Audiophiles were gone that being said there is a lot inside... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? My first speaker of quality was theKlipsch Heresy , ibought back inthe 70 s 40 years later after learning about modding speakers and newer technologies I purchased the latest version , they still use lower cost Xover parts even inthe Top Khorns ... | |
| Best Dedicated Streamer Personally I have tried very good streamers and in my home not worth $5k+ since I have a very advanced dedicated line using awg10 Copper wire Pure silver contacts 30 amp line on a separate copper buzz bar ,and 2 inch silver plated grounding Rod .... | |
| Upgrade Internal DAC of Node or go with Atoll ST120. The blue sound node is very low quality,it’s fine if audio quality is an afterthought rule of thumb 25% on average goes into a product including packaging the rest overhead and markup meaning $125 , buy a $950 Denafrips aries2 dac even run ... | |
| Does dose anyone see these speakers in real? You would have to have a serious mental problem to buy these , invest-in gold save your money, as a speaker I can think of many speakers far better under $20 k | |
| Most Extensive State-of-the-Art DAC Survey Ever! The Terminator + is my end all dac ,my brother has a $35k DCS Rosinni and it’s s noticeably better but not as much as you would think maybe 5-10% at best and not even that in some areas , for $6400 a steal I had it in j6 system for 2 days , andI... | |
| What happened to scammer Noah Schumacher? I suspect he went to visit Canada ,a friend in Montreal had a similar circumstance with a old McIntosh Vacuum tube Tuner. | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? I have done a lot of comparisons via audioclubs and my own pocket ,around $12 k on digital is close to my limit with cables if that does not get it done then there is something wrong elsewhere imo the Denafrips Terminator+ is the best dac I ... | |
| can i get a significant dac upgrade over my Lumin d2 for 2k? Easy , check out all the great reviews of the Denafrips Pontus-2 a great R2R dac that does everything well , even at $3k don’t know anything that is good in all areas , to get a Big step up. The Denafrips Terminator2 is like going Mercedes... |