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| Vimberg Speakers Steph here is our take on your questions. We are going to be a Vimberg dealer, and have a pair of Amea's on order. We have 30 years of experience with high performance loudspeakers.Our decision to pursue Vimberg came about after hearing the Tondas... | |
| ESOTERIC N-01 Replacement For My PS Audio BHK Preamp & Directstream Dac with Brige ll Only flaws in the X1 were early production cases all current cases are flawless.The reality is solid billet trumps plate metal for sonics any day of the week.Considering that the Lumin is $6k cheaper, offers optical network connectivity for superi... | |
| ESOTERIC N-01 Replacement For My PS Audio BHK Preamp & Directstream Dac with Brige ll Bluemartini, the DCS Vivaldi is a $35k dac vs the Lumin which is a $14k Dac/streamer.So in terms of price to performance the Lumin might be a bit of a disadvantage.The sonics of the Lumin would be in the same camp as the mega players for a fractio... | |
| ESOTERIC N-01 Replacement For My PS Audio BHK Preamp & Directstream Dac with Brige ll BluemartiniYou may want to also check out the Lumin X1 which is in the same league as the Esoteric NS O1 yet costs $6k less.Both of these are really fantastic units the nice thing with Lumin is that they are constantly improving their firmware wit... | |
| What Ampliffier And Magico A3 Mirza what makes you think that your massive Classe reference amplifiers are not dynamic?The issue you may be having may be solved possibly by changing your source perhaps or cabling?If you want to increase a system's speed and dynamics often addi... | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok We are a major Lumin dealer and have had extensive experience with DCS in the past, in fact Wilgolf is one of our clients.The battle between DCS and Lumin can be summed up with DCS tends to favor resolution over musicality, not saying the DCS is h... | |
| Help!! Bought Rega TT in the UK and now cant use it in the U.S. Rega uses an Ac syncronous motor Converting a 220v 50hz motor is not possibile with such a motor and a step up or down converter. | |
| SME is leaving the OEM and aftermarket/retail tonearm business. No loss the Graham and Triplanner arms are far better. Used to own. Sme switched to the above way better.Also Kuzma 4 point another far superior ref arm.Today there are also way better tables as well. Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ | |
| Help!! Bought Rega TT in the UK and now cant use it in the U.S. No Rober a voltage step up or down transformer will not change ac phase US 60hz Europe 50hz Rega uses an AC svncronous motor designed for Europe or America wrong motor wrong speed. 30 years of Retail exp we have seen this before.Dave and TroyAudio... | |
| Ethernet Bridge For Streaming Do not ever use a Poe device at all in a high end system as you are injecting noise directly into your system.We are a top Innous dealer we use NETGEAR - AC750 Dual-Band Wi-Fi Range Extender $50 Best Buy.These devices work great.Dave and TroyAudi... | |
| Help!! Bought Rega TT in the UK and now cant use it in the U.S. You need to swap the motor. You just learned the hard way that there is a reason to purchase through proper channels. The Rega motor will cost you probably $150.00 you also have no warranty either. | |
| Looking for Runco Q750/Sim2 Mico/Navitar HD I have a q750 stock and long throw | |
| Krell Duo 175xd Bingo, both are great and both represent tremendous performance and value. Oem your best bet would be to upgrade you Parasound preamp the JC 2 is good but there are a ton of superior preamps, Please call if you want to discuss a huge preamp upgrad... | |
| Monitor Audio Pl 300ii vs. KEF Reference 5 Urbie most people know that room treatment, cables and electronics are important.Your line trial and error is not the best way, means what exactly?Did Bo magically just know that his particular setup with AQ cables, Monitor audio loudspeakers and... | |
| $30K DAC in a $70K system - wise or ridiculous? Bigkidz, DHT designs can sound excellent but are they necessarily any better then other designs is up to the product's ultimate design topology, parts selection and synergy.We have the Manly 300b preamp which is a superb DHT 300b based preamp, the... |