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| CD Player vs. music streaming Bigg greg, You have not heard how good a streamer can sound vs your CD player or turntable as most high end dacs take USB and the Blue Sound Node can only output Coax or Toslink. This is a serious compromise with the Node.The other issue is that m... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming Hello guys a few points on this thread.People here have to stop lauding the Bluesound Node as a high end solution, yes the Node sounds great for a $550.00 streamer and has an excellent gui and operating system, however, in a really good system it ... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier Gestalt, sorry we agree with the OP’s dealer. There are tons of outstanding preamplifiers which have managed to sound transparent and have the functions that most people want.We would never carry a preamp without at least remote volume, as digital... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier Normie, you may want to cast your net a bit further into the two box solution. We have heard at a few shows the Zesto gear and they have just done a major redesign of the Leto preamp to the Leto Ultra and they make a number of excellent phono stag... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier Normie it look like the Luxman does not have a built in phono do you need a built in phono stage? | |
| Is it a good idea to buy CD players over 10 years old even it is a reliable brand? We still have an Electrcompaniet EMC 1UP on display and as Whipsaw says it is reilable and superb sounding.One of the great classic players.Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ Electrcompaniet dealer | |
| Golden Ear Triton 1 Amplifier suggestions We have been running our demo Triton 1r with the Unison Research Unico 150 and the sound is amazing. 150 watt solid state amplifier with a tube based preamp stage. Quiet, dynamic, outstanding midrange clarity and a huge soundstage.For digital a ... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Imgood we have tested many Dacs running DSD or upconverted PCM and the difference is huge. Try running a high ned USB cable into the T+A and run DSD 512 and you might just find that the T+A will sound better as a dac then the Berkley. The Berkle... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Imgoodwithtools,We are familiar with both sides of this coin. It is possible to get digital to sound like the best analog but it really matters what your setup is. We have heard a few really amazing digital setups, the T+A SD 3100/Innous Statement... | |
| Need advice on new TT Gr4 and as we have said many times before your hypocrispy is unbounded.Not one peep out of you about Rhapsodys PR Magi post. How is that is anything other than a direct solicitation hey come buy these from us and it even lists all of his lines.Nor... | |
| Need advice on new TT Sorry Mike we disagree. Gr4blu has 0 problems with Bob blatently creating a PR post proclaiming the greatness of the new Magicos which Rapsody has on order see our above post. Bob is also of WBF promoting his Allsovox products and here as well. If... | |
| Need advice on new TT Gr4blu Bob from Rapsody is on WBF and Audiogon promoting Magico and his wares by the way.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/magico-a5-official-announcement per the the Raven it doesnt need promotion it is a known product.If the Onkk proves its... | |
| Need advice on new TT Mijostyn, your viewpoint is extremely limited. We have found new products by reading the forum and we have learned from others as others have learned from us.All of life is a buying and selling proposition, weather it is for a job, a service a rel... | |
| Need advice on new TT Mike the Onkk shown at the New York show is the final production version, the final price has been set at $21,000.00 the original price was $19k but due to the price of the control system going up right before the show we had to increase the cost ... | |
| Need advice on new TT best groove that is an excellent question. We are intimately familiar with the electronics used Merrill which are excellent and the loudspeakers which were Martin Logan's which one of our clients has so we know what both of these components sound ... |