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| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? Sounds like your buddy is just starting out as he has no vinyl or CDs.Streaming done right can sound excellent. So, my vote goes to aBryston BDA-3.14 Streamer DAC. List is about $4k.The Bryston will play PCM up to 384K as well as DSD4. Stereop... | |
| FTC may end amplifier rule! ACTION NEEDED @russ69 "Frankly, I go by weight. Big iron and big toroid transformers weigh a lot and tell you more about power capabilities."I've done this simple test on many occasions and it seems to upset sales people.Regards,barts | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? Well I guess I have you all beat as far as age is concerned, bought 300 feet of Hartley Reference Cable (10 gauge) in 1980. Spec'd by Rich and custom built, Rich owns Hartley. Needed 300 feet to get the 6 runs from amps to speakers in my tri-am... | |
| Last Audition - Blown Away By A Lottery System bgm911I have to many hobbies as well, several of them smell like gasoline.Goldwings are beautiful machines. Best of luck with it.If you feel like you're in the candy store don't be too eager to jump off the cliff with $20k. Regards,barts | |
| Last Audition - Blown Away By A Lottery System To the OP,Do whatever you have to to go back to that system that "blew you away".Bring music your familiar with. Listen as much as they will let you.To be clear I'm not sayin' jerk them around. Outline, on paper, the system you would like to buil... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @glupson" Virtually all Bowers & Wilkins (except one older model)."I had the very same experience, somewhere in the late 80s I listened to B&W model?, I think 800, anyway the biggest they made with all McIntosh tube gear and they sounded ... | |
| Best temperature for optimum tube performance My three ARC amps (NOT TUBES) each have 32 output transistors and 3 cooling fans each. So, 96 output transistors and nine cooling fans. If I run them really hard for say an hour their temp never goes over 100 F. Yes, I measure them with a BBQ p... | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables @jetter Thanks for the reply. I as well thought they were benign. But, there are many posts which I think are legit questions and they are met with slings and arrows. In fact, I was simply trying to inject a little humor into this all to seriou... | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables when I see three posts removed following one of mine I am curious what they may have contained. so if they were directed to me I would appreciate it you would PM me with the removed posts. thank you.barts | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables CERN cabling - maybe nothing special after all...except for shielding.https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2007/gallery-in-the-labyrinth | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables I'm not a cable denier. I've heard quite amazing differences in imaging from interconnects. Not so much from power cords, still I can't say they don't exist.Every time a thread like this shows up I can't help but think what type of cabling is us... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! After puzzling out your budget and much reading and listening buy the best foundation pieces your budget allows (speakers, amp, pre-amp).Buy them as if you're married to them ('cause you are). Purchase a source component(s). These will undoubted... | |
| Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required? I have watched maybe 10 of his vids. It was worth the time and provided food for thought. But he completely lost me when in the last one I watched he went off on the "industry" selling extremely harmful substances like fiberglass and Roksul. He... | |
| What speakers are shown in the movie The Counselor? Lara Croft Tomb Raider has this TT playing as she does the bungee ballet. I sort of doubt that the producers paid a fee to have this on the set for a very very short time.https://www.pinterest.com/pin/296604325461527243/ClearaudioRegards,barts | |
| Strange buzz issue! @hshifiBoth of these pieces are solid state.To the OP, please ensure that ground wire between the two is a real good metal to metal contact. Also you might try shorting out any unused RCA inputs, take that cheap interconnect you have layin' aroun... |