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| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... My experience with DACs a is that a very well-designed unit can be had for under 2K and the real performance differences come from the choice of power conditioner, cables, isolation and system synergy. Are higher priced units potentially better? I... | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... In my humble opinion, she is one of the few artists that actually sounds better on her live cuts than on her studio cuts. | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... Yes, I am keeping CD players in my systems for this reason and also that I have a ton of burned CD Playlists that we still enjoy. In the 'house system' I'm using a Rotel RCD - 9658x which is at least 25 years old and it still seems to get the job ... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... With regard to the Bedini CD demagnetizer, I had one of these and used it regularly until it broke down for good. I then replaced it with the Acoustic Revive RD-3 which has accomplished essentially the same thing and that being to demagnetize the ... | |
| Gratitude and Thanksgiving Grateful for many things, not the least of which is still having almost all of my hearing while pushing 70. Life is good and God to be praised for another Holiday Season living in freedom and abundance. | |
| Speakers for a Large Room (20’x37’) Dunlavy sc-4,5,6s are still to be found on occasion. Even though they are perhaps a couple of decades old, they still represent one of the best values in high end audio. Oh, and they absolutely love big rooms. | |
| Nordost Odin or Valhalla 2 Well, I'm a late comer to seriously trying the Nordost line. I did hear the Odin setup a few years ago at the Rocky Mountain Audio Show and was duly impressed. I do have a fairly significant investment in my two channel room, so when I happened to... | |
| Is The FM tuner obsolete? I think there will always some form of FM broadcast, but just like vinyl, reel -to-reel, cassettes, cds etc. Streaming is where the action is and it will impose it's will on everything else for the foreseeable future.I should also say that using ... | |
| How long do good speakers last? I've had my Dunlavy SC V, IV, III, I and Cantatas for over 20 years. Had to replace 3 or 4 drivers along the way. Outlasted all my electronic upgrades through the years. Have never once had the urge to replace the speakers.Oh yes, and I should inc... | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? I have auditioned and listened to McIntosh amps through the years and have come to the conclusion that their tube amps sound very different from their solid state amps. You can probably guess which one sounded better than the other. | |
| Anybody own a component that sounds better with the cover off? I owned an Audio Research SP-8 years ago that definitely sounded better with the top panel off. Probably could have stayed on if the right kind of damping material had been used. | |
| PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best. This is so far past the 'point of diminishing returns' that a person would have to have other needs to fill other than just enjoying great music. Move the decimal point one place to the left and I might think about it. | |
| Matching components? Matching all components often is next to impossible, but having said that, to the extent it can be done often avoids problems with 'hums, buzzes and noise floor' problems. Components from a given manufacturer is often 'voiced' by using other compo... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? The AudioQuest Cobalt USB DAC has 'no right' to sound as good as it does for $300.00. Amazing piece of miniaturization! | |
| Check in: How quickly are streamers and servers evolving? To me, streaming has changed the music world (what seems like) overnight. I have spent years collecting CDs and putting together physical CD mixers. I didn't anticipate that streaming could be as good as it is (at least on Tidal) and that I would ... |