bigkidz
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| Next best exponential DAC quality level? If you are in the NYC area please feel free to bring your DAC over to are listening room to see if you can hear a difference compared to a DHT based tubed DAC any time. Happy Listening. | |
| Considering the Pro-ject Box CD RS2 Transport ? You might want to read this, first. I hear what you are saying but I have yet to find a better transport. I can live with the light weight if it sounds better than everything else I have compared it to. Happy Listening. | |
| A decent integrated amp under 2K ... With 100db you only need a maximum of say 5 watts My friend purchased a Raven Audio integrated amp 20wpc and it was nicer than the Line Magnetics. Don’t ask me the models I don’t know but he has also been looking for a nice integrated amp. He was ... | |
| Audioquest speaker cables At first they sounded a little rolled off to my ears but I let them play and tried them in a few different systems to get a handle on them. Then I got more of a handle on the sound. Good soundstage, mids and bass. So for the value they were ver... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps You are asking the wrong question. What tubes offer that SS cannot compete with is space. You hear a soundstage where vocals and instruments have their own space. While this is a generalization, that is the difference between many reference lev... | |
| Different R2R DACs First whomever said R2R DACs are the flavor of the month is completely wrong. We build both types of DACs Sorekris R2R modelue and Sabre 32 Bit. THey are differnt sounding but the R2R are not soft sounding in comparison. They are definately mo... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided It depends on the person and if they understand what makes something sound the way it does. Most people don't. Some just follow reviews. | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? If you can find field coil speakers audition them. We recently played around with the Horning speakers - excellent mid-range. That being said, just because you put a low wattage tube amp with them does not mean sonic beauty. The 845 and 45 t... | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation Lots of advice, some good some, well pure nonsense. Price has nothing to do with performance. Learn why something sounds the way it does first then you can make informed decisions. What transforms one system does not always transform another sy... | |
| Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker? It can but speaker designers who use computer models are getting very close. That being said and owning Vandersteen 5As, just because these speakers are does not mean that they always sound fantastic. There is more to making a system sound fanta... | |
| World's Best Speakers For 2021 ? As already stated, there is no best. Most of the speakers mentioned have many positives and a few negatives. I will say that hearing the Horning speakers with the one watt 45 tube amp we built was an eye opening experience. I have heard them be... | |
| Class A amplifier alternative? Not sure what speakers you have. IN building 40wpc Class A mono block amps we recently had a friend bring over his Mola-Mola mono blocks $16K retail with a ton of wpc. After swapping them out, he asked us why to the Class A amps sound more power... | |
| To DAC or not to DAC ? In my opinion - $500-$700 DAC nothing special. Probbaly better to upgrde the power supply in the Node for better sound until you can affored a much better DAC. | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ @sns1 - you cheater - 845 tube power amp - hard to find something better especially with an horn type speaker. We built a stereo 45 tube amp only 1 watt and used them on the Horning speaker - pure magic even with an Eric Clapton recording. Each ... | |
| V-Cap Odam or Miflix output caps In preamp @grannring - we built Class A tube mono block KT-77/EL-34 tubes that use 4 Milflex copper caps per mono. We have not found them to be aggressive at all so as you know each application is different. Have not tried the V-Caps in the mono blocks as o... |