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| VPI felt mat vs aftermarket I was in the camp of preferring no mat with my VPI Classic when I owned one years back, especially if using the periphery ring and center weight. Most mats are not designed to have any weights added down to them, and doing so can deaden the sound ... | |
| Spending a month's salary @vonhelmholtz AnaDioLog posted a follow up video review comparing the DAC 200 and Holo May in more depth. Unfortunately, while the DAC 200 offers six different DAC filters for the users to choose from, he decided to go with the most basic NOS filt... | |
| Spending a month's salary @tee_dee I’d definitely be looking at better speakers and a better DAC and quality streamer/server solution. I don’t see you listing any vinyl rig there, so I’ll assume you are intending this to be a purely digital setup. If so, I’ll strongly reco... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? If I were to try to decipher the root causes of “this new hifi sound”, I’d say it has nothing to do with intentional frequency dips or peaks. Instead I see a few factors: 1. Advancements in speaker driver technologies and engineering, as well as ... | |
| Axpona 2023 @jayctoy I’m sorry, I lost sight of this thread. I hope you were able to get tickets. I’ll be helping out around at the DH Labs booth and in the T+A room. Will likely also be spending sometime in the AV Luxury International room since I am a Margu... | |
| Legacy XD series for tube amplifier thoughts @desalvo55 You can definitely get great bass from Legacy, easily into the 20s without subs. But there’s just a difference in the way subs charge a room vs when the lows come from the 2ch speaker due to the distance from the walls. Legacy will perf... | |
| Warm, Lush Laid-Back Smaller Floor Standers? +1 on Joseph Audio and Verity. The T+A Talis S 300 are another pair that flies under the radar, but might be above your budget at a retail of $17,850. That said, it is a compact floor stander whose cabinet is machined from aluminum, so cabinet res... | |
| T and A D 200 Dac @milpai The preamp stage and volume control in the unit are of very high quality, and it can also be disabled to set the unit up as a standalone line level DAC. These features, are additive and do not take away from the fact that for $7,125, the D... | |
| Legacy XD series for tube amplifier thoughts @desalvo55 Legacy makes some of the best speakers considering performance to the dollar. The XD offerings are a great way of enabling the speakers to work well with tube amplification. I am now an official installer/reseller of Legacy products, bu... | |
| T and A D 200 Dac @mpomerantz Mike, the model is T+A DAC 200, and as a dealer, I own one and have compared it to a lot of other DACs. I do post about it pretty often on these forums. It’s my favorite unit south of $15K and has a true preamp stage built in, in case ... | |
| OMG Moment This is true, the Sabrina’s tweeter is fairly low, as was my Yvette’s when I owned Wilsons. I believe in the manual Wilson provides some guidance on setting tweeter height by adjusting the spikes, but that may change how the whole speaker sounds a... | |
| Pro-Ject Tube Amp DS Settings Most HOMC cartridges just use the same loading as a MM cart. Based on the loading calculator, it seems the nominal for that cartridge would be 43db of gain, so you may want to experiment and see if the 50db of gain may be more dynamic than than th... | |
| OMG Moment @vonhelmholtz That album is also quite psychadelic with the soundstage, which is why I shared it. :) But slumping down so your head is on the couch will, yes, result in changes in the dispersion, but also potentially introduce reflections coming ... | |
| Selling on Audiogon @paulg1966 I wasn’t always a dealer, but through this whole time (even when I was selling personal gear), I’ve always started with a no-returns policy. That said, I do care about my buyers’ happiness and typically take the time to make sure the it... | |
| Selling on Audiogon Also, with headphones, you might be better off selling listing them on Head-Fi. I don’t think there’s as big of a headphone user market perusing through Audiogon, but there’s no harm in listing them in both marketplaces. USAudioMart is another goo... |