blindjim
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| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles If it ain’t all about sonics and it seems within this list it ain’t, it must be about something else as significant.Perhaps ‘audiophile’ means more in different cultural settings. What Hi Fi is to my understanding an ‘off shore’ magazine, isn’t... | |
| Hum problem Hey Swamp….Sorry to hear this.Maybe I’m preaching to the choir but your post did not account for:You said “… for a while” expressly focusing on the 30/30. What was checked or swapped out upstream to put the finger right on the amp? Using a diff p... | |
| USB cable opinions I have no dog in this hunt but am interested in the outcome. | |
| Switching to solid state amp? Hi, Which SS amp depends on ones preffs and speakers. … and budget.I’m guessing the big conversion would be my preffs first. Its tuff IMO to get all SS power train that is obviously compelling and involving with out spending well into the upper m... | |
| Dealers hijacking the discussions I thought ‘hijacking’ was taking a discussion from say, amps, to a discussion about for instance, DACs, being held by two or more members conversing about their new this or that DAC as if they were PM each other and totally irrespective of the to... | |
| Denafrips Ares DAC has arrived... need help with Oppo connectivity Are you playing CD, DVD, BR, streaming, or trying to feed the CATV signal thru the Oppo into your DAC?Apparently you want to feed from the DAC too as you have a USB connection coming from the DAC to the 103.Does neither scenario work? Feeding the... | |
| Directionality of wire sorry. I was just informed about this.It is sheer folly to argue or debate something one can easily prove or disprove using their own equipment. In the case of directionality of wires, just listen to what is goong on now. Take notes. Later, merely... | |
| Dealers hijacking the discussions Anyone but me notice that “Report this” link on posts?Exactly what does that do? Shouldn’t that provide a solution for untoward comments, shilling, blatant pitches?I seem to recall this site did have a feature that allowed a poster to block a part... | |
| Speakers are the first piece of the puzzle thank you all.Sources. It starts there.Amps and speakrs are more of necessity than a starting point, if indeed the notion its all about signal integrity and purity, amounts to anything..The elements that make up the rig are all malleable. Changin... | |
| Dealers hijacking the discussions If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, its not a water tight chicken.In discussion threads everyone should be talking to others like any other person would whose experience are akin, greater than or merely dissimilar fr... | |
| What 2 channel Amp would you Buy for $6k? hi!I’ll second the note on sheer popularity. Its like why are there so many Toyotas for sale? I’m getting the impression from this post that you want to change the presentation somehow. Other’s seem to perceive that as well.Exactly what sort of pr... | |
| Looking for a reasonably priced good quality interconnect Hi!It also depends on what you are looking for in terms of sonics. That bucket is deep too.An all around good working well performing cable is the harmonic Tech Magics. Current edition I’d suspect. Does most everything well. Its not the end of all... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? I dare say not one person here were they to hit the power ball some weekend, that they wouldn’t rush out and buy some ridiculously high ticket gear once the funds were made available . So merely for the purposes of ‘closure’ , if everyone wants t... | |
| Music collection in Flac. Great! PC player..too slow. Suggestions?? Looking for a head phone portable DAC like thing I ran across some new gizmos called portable digital music players and or portable Head Phone DAC. The issues I’ve had with streaming files from my NAS are as previously said, lossless files are go... | |
| SOTA Turn Table set up for 5K - more or less? Islandmandan > … tonearm with palsy> It's a very personal thing, how deeply you are prepared to involve yourself. Once you're there, it's rewarding, and something you can be proud of, depending on how much you actually do yourself to get the... |