bondmanp
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| what's a good Gan / Class D option under 3k? Nilai or Ncorex500? I don't know what chips it uses, but the Arion Audio S500 amp fits what you want in every regard. I have had it for 5 years now, and I couldn't be happier. | |
| Where was the best reproduced sound you ever heard? This one was unexpected. At a Stereophile show in Manhattan in 2005(?), Roman Audio Centurions powered by Krell gear. We put on a Brad Mehldau JVC XRCD, a sampler, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Night". About a dozen people in the room, and nob... | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? Not sure any record presses are new. I visited one plant that had bought a couple of old ones from a sneaker manufacturer who had repurposed some record presses to make sneakers. He converted them back to press LPs. | |
| Tubes Recommendation for McIntosh Preamp FWIW, I replaced the stock 12AX7 tubes in my C220 preamp with Mullard reissues. I got a lower noise floor, smoother highs without losing detail, and slightly expanded soundstage. A great low cost upgrade. | |
| My end game speaks. I hate to throw more speakers into the audition list, but check out German Physic and MBL speakers. If I was going well into 5 figures for speakers, those two would be high up on the audition list. If you really like it loud, consider a horn-based... | |
| Covers for racks to keep dust off? I can get away with a plastic sheet that covers my whole double-wide rack because my system is in a basement man cave, so looks are not important. Cheep and effective. | |
| A Tale for Your Bemusement FWIW, there have been many times that software updates to a few of my audio components have seemed to cause problems. The natural thing to do is reboot. What's funny is that very often, 2 or 3 reboots are necessary before the problems correct th... | |
| Throw it out! Can this method be applied to an annoying wife? | |
| Handling Heavy Amps I have dealt with sciatica for around 9 years. I was using a 65lb. amp from Odyssey Audio, the Stratos 3 channel model (my rig is combo 2-channel and home theater). When it needed repairs, I lugged it to a UPS store for packing and shipping. It wa... | |
| Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :) So, I love my curated, a.k.a. hodgepodge system. It’s not expensive by high end standards, but I love listening to all genres on it. It’s far from perfect. I get to hear a lot of high dollar systems through my local audio club, and rarely do I fe... | |
| Paypal drastic changes This is what happens when Big Governments start to run out of money. The result is usually a thriving black market where the government gets a big fat goose egg. Ask anyone in Russia, Greece, or many other places. The next step is a cashless ec... | |
| Stepping into streaming, finally @romanesq So what's the difference between the Finisar you are using and something like this: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-iso-plus-2#overview For someone like me who is not tech savvy, the DX Engineering looks like an easier fix,... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Dig deep? My Arion Audio S500 amp was priced at $2500 when I got it a few years ago. It packs 500 watts per channel and sound great. My inefficient speakers soak up those watts and sound wonderful to my ears. | |
| Crackle and hiss on some albums @fuzztone ...+1 on the Sugarcube by Sweet Vinyl. I have been happily turning sows asses into silk purses with my SC-2 since I got a beta unit when it was crowd funded in 2016. Of course, I still use my vacuum record cleaning machine, the cheep an... | |
| Transparent Audio is anything but Transparent @audio_is_subjective +1, except for your gratuitous use of apostrophe's 😉 |