bimmerlover
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Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier One approach would be to keep your Luxman as the power amp and add a tube pre-amp, like the PrimaLuna EVO 400. This way you don’t have to worry about driving your speakers yet you have the “tube sound,” which can vary widely but you can have a lo... | |
Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @sls883 Yes, still into bimmers. My first one was in 1995, a BMW M3 coupe, then followed by an M Roadster in 1998, then an M5 in 2000, then an M3 convertible with paddle shifters in 2003 (which we picked up at the Spartanburg factory with the Driv... | |
Interconnects priority A big thanks to everyone for sharing their opinions, which interestingly varied quite a bit. “The phono stage to the preamp [as closer to the source is most important]” - 2+ votes ”The preamp to the power amp [because everything goes through tha... | |
Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @sls883, no worries and thanks. I ended up buying the Simaudio Moon 310 LP with the 320S power supply. To take full advantage of its balanced output I also upgraded my PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium to the PL EVO 400, as the Dialogue Premium only ha... | |
Interconnects priority To format something as a quote just copy/paste what you want into the text box, and then with the cursor at the end of that sentence/paragraph click the quote icon at the top if the text box and that’s it Thanks @soix! | |
Interconnects priority @mclinnguy Thanks. Can you/someone explain to me how you take a part of a previous post and include it in your own, like you have done a couple of times above (the pasted text in the yellow box), and do the @xxxxx references (like I have tried in... | |
Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @kennyc I did, thanks for asking! A Moon 310LP in 9/10 condition for less than $900. Figured that’s not a deal to pass on. And if for some reason the Moon is not ending up ringing my bell, there are so many other great recommendations in this thr... | |
Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @jbuhl Thanks - that’s a good suggestion. I found a lightly used Moon 310LP for less than $1k. | |
Please Help. J. A. Michell Gyro SE - Speed Issue It’s quite amazing that this is supposed to be a higher end turntable and the manufacturer is not even bothering to respond to your emails(?). I would say that is not a sign of being a high-quality manufacturer. After all, what you do expect, reas... | |
The Horror There’s a saying in photography (I’m a professional photographer): Amateurs worry about their equipment, Professionals worry about getting paid, and Artists worry about the light. Something very similar seems to apply in the world of “audio... | |
Tube amps under $7500 I think it’s hard to beat PrimaLuna tube amps for value. Point to point wiring, tube rectified, solidly built, compellingly priced. I currently using PL Dialogue Premium preamp going into a McIntosh MC312 solid state power amp. It’s a nice com... | |
Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. @mitch2 I think it’s safe to say there’s a tremendous amount of overthinking and overpaying in this group. When someone is seriously contemplating if it’s worthwhile to upgrade a $1500 power cable to a $4500 power cable, or they are surprised tha... | |
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @eurorack of course if you change from a substandard, “crud” power cord to something that’s half decent you should notice a difference. That’s obvious. Crap is gonna limit anything in this world - power cords or not. What we discussing in this th... | |
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @mihorn Your comment “In my experience, a last 5ft power cord is much more important than in-wall wiring. Like a garden water hose, the nozzle only sees what it’s connected. The audio equipment draws the current from a power cord which is a bigger... | |
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @invalid The electrons don’t care if you or I call the power cord the last or first five feet in a circuit that also involves 10 to 40 more feet of in-wall wiring. |