bruce_1
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| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! After owning Magnepan, Sonus Faber, Vandersteen, Avalon, and Mirage speakers I now have Wilson Audio Sasha DAW speakers, which will (probably) be the last speakers I will own. They complete the dCS, Dan D'Agostino, ARC, Clearaudio, Koetsu, Transpa... | |
| Reliability of Dan D'Agostino equipment I have a Progression integrated amp and is has performed flawlessly for the two years I have owned it. Before buying, I borrowed it from the dealer to compare it with my Pass Labs INT-150, and the difference was obvious to everyone that listened t... | |
| The best part about MQA bankruptcy.. MQA is very good from my experience with a MSB DAC. I have a dCS Bartok (now being upgraded to Apex) and I have the same experience when playing MQA files on Tidal. These DACs, and perhaps some other high end DACs, have been able to deliver excel... | |
| D'Agostino Progression Integrated Amp I have the Progression Integrated driving Wilson Sabrina speakers. I had a Pass Labs INT-150. I asked several non-audiophile friends over to listen to a comparison between the Progression and the Pass. It took us about 5 minutes of comparison to u... | |
| Best amp for Wilson Sabrina sonictomb, I own the Wilson, D'Agostino, and dCS combination. I use Transparent Audio cabling with this combo. Each these four companies use the other's products (but different components of each company's products like the Alexx V, Vivaldi, Momen... | |
| New Beatles remasters What is the difference between the import and the domestic version that explains the $333 price difference?! | |
| New Beatles remasters I just ordered the mono set from Amazon for $230 after seeing that Best Buy wants $563 for it! Amazon is predicting shipment in 3 to 6 weeks. | |
| Mark Levinson 326 Pre-amp Phono Option Larryi,Thanks for your response. That is very helpful.Regards,Bruce | |
| Magico Vs Vandersteen 5 A If you can get to Chicago, you can hear the V3 and 5A, as well as Revel Salons, Sonus Faber Elipsas, and Avalon Indras all at Quintessence Audio in Skokie. They have an excellent listening room and great electronics, so you'll really get to hear t... | |
| usb vs toslink? Check out this thread for comparisons among different digital playback methods (e.g., Toslink vs usb vs CD-R, etc):Digital Playback Comparison | |
| Digital Playback Comparison I have been listening to the following digital playback chain for a while now and can report on the quality compared to the other playback methods described in my original post: iMac-->USB cable-->Hagman USB-->9m of Canare coaxial cable--... | |
| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? I did a listening comparison with several of the methods listed here (see link below for conclusions)http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1196311011&openmine&zzBruce_1&4&5#Bruce_1I have ordered 9m of Canare coaxial cab... | |
| The best digital audio out of coaxial, or optical? Click on this link for a Forum thread that includes a listening comparison for different cables, digital media, etc.:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1196311011&openmine&zzBruce_1&4&5#Bruce_1 | |
| audiophiles get mention in today's WSJournal Michael Fremer's article in the February issue Stereophile talks about these types of comparison tests. What the reporters and skeptics fail to take into consideration is that we are listening to MUSIC over a SYSTEM, in a listening ENVIRONMENT, wh... | |
| Digital Playback Comparison Shadorne,The CD itself of the 1985 performance is new, but I've gotten the same results from other CD's tested this way, so I'm thinking the difference is in the playback medium, not the particular CD. But, I'm glad to learn about the bronzing pro... |