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| T+A Solitaire S 530 Magnetostatic Speakers @roxy54 Thanks for showing your appreciation. And I agree with you, its design is a primary reason I jumped on it right away. | |
| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers At AXPONA at those price ranges, I’d visit Audiovector - Look for the R3 Arrête, though they might have the R6 set up. Joseph Audio - The Perspective2 Graphene is around $16,500, but they will likely have the $40K Pearl Graphenes. They sound ve... | |
| Problems with forum lag/performance? I think this has something to do with the way Audiogon is implementing its ads and ad technologies. Do you have an ad blocker on? I’ve noticed that if my ad blocker is on using the Chrome browser, it crawls and freezes. Disabling ad blockers seems... | |
| Female XLR to RCA? In most cases, this should be fine. Though, if by design the preamp only has balanced outs, it may expect a balanced power amp, so the output gain of the preamp may be 3db lower if you use an XLR to RCA cable or connector. The impedance may also c... | |
| OMG Moment @audphile1 Maybe that’s one improvement with the Sabrinas. If you look at the design of some of the higher up models, the tweeters are angled downwards. It doesn’t seem to be the case with the Sabrinas. I might have gotten 6ft on some tracks, but ... | |
| Denafrips Terminator Plus vs T+A DAC 200 @mikicasellas I can answer that, though I have owned both at different times. Before I was a dealer, I owned a PS Audio DirectStream DAC which I modified heavily with upgraded transformers, linear power supply, etc. I purchased a brand new Lampiza... | |
| OMG Moment I would say the smaller Wilson speakers do image quite low. I am fairly short and have a low height listening chair, so while the Wilson Yvette imaged well, vocalists still seemed they were sitting. The speakers I’ve had prior (Legacy Aeris) and a... | |
| 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... |