audioman58
Responses from audioman58
| Large room with low budget for speakers Look at Spatial audio labs with upgraded Xover around $10 k and open baffle perfect for your setup ,don’t underestimate these. | |
| What's a good amount of time to have my preamp unplugged before I swap out tubes? A lot comes down to the capacitors and how big they are before discharging maybe 5- 10 minutes I wanted to be safe , no set rule though . | |
| How do you make a final decision on a DAC Your budget will determine what dac is on your shortlist . my rule of thumb is $5-6k is for most a reference quality dac such as the new Denafrips Terminstor-2, or Rockna , or Holo Springs KTE msy dac or Bricasti 3 dac streamer , that being s... | |
| My endgame system I think I am always upgrading especially every few years as digital progresses , I mod my own Loudspeaker Xovers which the vast majority from the factory are average quality at best ,which can dramatically improve your Loudspeakers And this too applies ... | |
| My endgame system I think This past weekend I went over a Audio members house,I thought my audiosystem was pretty decent His Burmeister system with Estalon Speakers $250k+ Was better then exceptional ,I feel very lacking compared , you can spend $1million and then what ... | |
| everything sounded great until the upgrade You didnot say what amp, and more importantly how many hours on it. for breakin | |
| Go Ahead and Laugh at Me You want to see the number 115 v if in North America that being said if you put on 230 v it just would not work the dual voltage windings are looking for 230 v in reverse if you were in Europe and plugged in at 115 v you may fry a board for ... | |
| Axpona 2022 what impressed you? Having been to many shows and setting up systems when I was a dealer ,to be fair to all ,they should all have to bring a spl meter and all rooms should be max under 88db.which is fairly loud For several reasons. In smaller rooms too many hard re... | |
| This cable game is making my head spin A solid choiceWire World Eclipse, uses silver copper connectors far better then gold brass in sonics as well as much lower resistance , patented lowest dielectric lower then Teflon, And the highest 6-9s Copper ,in a flat Litz independent conducto... | |
| High-pass line filter to relieve main speakers from low frequency In my Coda CSIB integrated amp which is excellent stock I made much better still the coupling cap is 1 uf ,I put a Jupiter copper foil in there that was a major upgrade from the stock Rel caps , I felt to make it optimum I tried adding a .047... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers MBL 101 extremes , in sound and looks a Very unique Loudspeaker. | |
| Boutique or Big Brand? You didnot mention one very big factor your rooms dimentions. spatial audio technologies makes some excellent open baffle speakers that are very efficient and on several models powered Bass well worth the effort even if it meant saving $1-2 k mo... | |
| Doge (China to USA) Tariff Buys Denafrips R2R dac they have a nice nstural balance and no extra duties and 3 day DHL delivery included in theprice. | |
| Audiophiles on Audiogon. From what I see hear ,is this Rockwell person to be totally Ignorant of the Sonic bliss that music brinks to many 1,000s of Audiophiles world wide, with Audiophiles many times it takes some trial and error to get the acoustics and system synergies... | |
| Ps audio aspen FR 30 Loudspeakers My point was even if it sounds good with average parts , by using the top 10 % in quality will ultimately sound better ,If you are willing to go Thst extra mile to get That refinement . IHave proved this many times , with many well known brand... |