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| (Hegel vs Luxman) vs PS Audio Go with what @lldd said! I have never heard a PS Audio anything that I thought was competitive in its class. The Luxman is sublime! The Hegel is an neutral as they come and can be a little boring but not as much as the PS Audio! The Luxman has all... | |
| Which AMP to Keep ? I owned a Sumo Polaris 2 for many years! I thought it was pretty good until I bought a B&K Amp! I found out pretty quickly that the Sumo wasn’t that good, and the B&K was highly underrated!! I shelved the Sumo and sold it about a year or s... | |
| TEAC UD-701 vs NT-505 vs ? I brought home the UD-701N 2 weeks ago as a Demo unit and have been running it in pretty much constantly. From the first listen I knew I was going to like it! My current DAC is a Pontus II. I had the RS150B in my setup for an evaluation a few mont... | |
| Opinions on A/C Noise Meter EMI Testers I would suggest that if the noise is not audible, then it isn’t likely to have an affect on sound quality and especially enjoyment of the presentation. If this is the case, why would ‘knowing’ of any noise matter?… | |
| Review: Threshold 400a Amplifier Old thread, but I recently purchased a later model 400A re-capped, upgraded and including XLRs in place of the RCAs. My local highend shop convinced me that I would not be disappointed and boy were they right! My daily driver is a Mark Levinson 58... | |
| Which integrated for Wilson Sabrina's I’m shocked that Esoteric hasn’t been mentioned in this discussion, especially within his price range. The Japanese sound comes with no compromises for what most ‘like’ to hear. The Mark Levinson 585 (way better build quality and components than t... | |
| Power cords: Anticable vs Mad Scientist So when researching PCs, is it all based on faith from reviews? I never hear anyone talking about the design principles of the cables. How did the manufacturer go about designing the cables? What basic hypothesis did they use? Companies like Carda... | |
| Which power cords have high resolutions and separation?? Someone please explain to me the design philosophy behind a power cable as a ‘component’ such that it can exhibit attributes other than a cleaner signal path? If it is not an active component (R/I/C) circuit then I can only have an affect on one b... | |
| Looking for Advice on Focal Speakers In that pic of the Klipsch speakers, the speakers are too close together and the seating position is way too far away! No chance of that setup offering any real imaging! You are only going to get sound in that room, but not a true highend experien... | |
| Luxman 509x vs Hegel H390 I have owned Hegel H190 and 390. I traded the H390 for a Mark Levinson No. 585. The build quality of the Levinson is on par with most any top tier amps on the market and trounces the Hegel which has stamped case. The Hegel signature sound of absol... | |
| HELIOS Speaker Kit @mijostyn You are correct that the Helios crosses the woofer higher and the tweeter lower to overcome the usual challenge of a 2 way design using a larger woofer for bass extension at the expense of linearity. With that said, Jeff Bagby has manage... | |
| HELIOS Speaker Kit @rop45 Glad to hear your Helios kit is living up to the hype!! It’s always refreshing and reassuring to know that I wasn’t crazy when I fired mine up and realized they were better than some $10K commercial speaker designs I have heard recently. Ke... | |
| My thoughts on the HiFi Rose 150B A couple of things many are ignoring about the RS150 vs other options like Cambridge and NAD. The DAC is the RS150 is substantially better than the DACs in other devices and is also better than the DAC in the RS250! The Rose products do a lot of ‘... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? Is it pointless to discuss the technology of these recommended brands? I hear people saying how they all sound different which would lead one to believe that there are MANY different technologies involved here that would affect the sound profoundl... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? I don't know if someone has touched on it in this thread, but when considering the manufacturers goal is to sell product, they come up with supposedly innovative designs for their cables with exotic processes that (according to them) make profound... |