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| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? Oh, whoops. The Holo May is a lot more than $1500.00. | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old Cat Ballou Speaks | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? Jay's Audio CDT3 MK3 Transport Holo May KTE DAC Primaluna EVO 400 Pre Audion AGD Mk3 Monoblocs Most components bought close together in time. Pretty sublime but the whole shebang required a long break-in. | |
| Klipsch Mod You can damp the tweeter and mid with bits of black gorilla tape stuck to the outside of the wave guides. It doesn’t take much, and you wont be mucking around with repeatedly removing the front panel to make adjustments. The black tape is pretty m... | |
| Remastered CDs, HDCDs, SACDs My experience has been that downloading from Quobuz the music from various things I have as CD tends to guarantee a better master than some original CD's in my collection. This downloaded material is then recorded to CD on my computer for playback... | |
| Attention Horn Owners I suspect the main advantage of so called "Western Electric" wire is that is has had a very long and rigorous break-in doing its duty in various industrial or semi-industrial settings for long stretches of time. Ebay 10 gauge Western Electric | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? Ultimately AI data center energy demand and projected EV charging demand is going to force more nuke plants to be built especially so if our overlords keep closing coal and natural gas plants. Wind and solar will contribute a pittance. There is re... | |
| Are you hearing the instruments or the music? Mutually inclusive. | |
| Mass loading Tannoy Definition DC10a speaker. My Cornwall 4's are easy to mass load from the bottom because of the 3 bass ports at the bottom facing forward. I used lead weights and found that at some point weight became counter-productive and actually boosted and distorted treble. The sweet ... | |
| The cool factor- who has it? Ben Webster - Soulville | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? A better question from a morale standpoint: Will HiFi kill AI? | |
| Attention Horn Owners @SNS The wire I bought in quantity on Ebay is tinned copper with the oiled cloth cover. My impression of Dueland - at least in previous times - was that they were using the same vintage wire but selling it with connectors attached and in custom ... | |
| The Audiophile's Wife no longer putting it out? She got game. Sorry too see her go. I hope the existing posts stay up long enough that I can read them all. | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers WORD | |
| Cryogenic Treatment of Tubes, and why you should not. This thread for some quirky reason reminds me of what I muttered to myself when my system finally broke through to true high fidelity - "I once was blind, but now I see." |