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| Upcoming Concerts?! Seeing Jason Isbell at the Fox Theater in Detroit in June. For the Cowboy Junkie fans, Check out the album Streetlights by the Michigan based band The Whiskey Charmers. Tasteful guitar-driven rock / alt-country with great songwriting | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? LTA is single ended out but no issues driving them with adapters - only a 2M run in my small room | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? Already had the LTA preamp and just got ATC SCM19A actives. Added a Rhythmic sub and sounds pretty amazing so far. | |
| Streamer Advice Music Direct had “demo/open box” Aurender N100 for $1600 with full warranty- at least as of a couple of months ago. Mine looked new and totally outclassed my Node with LPS into a Pontus | |
| One box solution Some good suggestions so far. KEF LS50 are nice and simplest option, but no headphone output. Weiss 501 is a highly regarded streamer/DAC/pre with headphone output for about $9k - pair it with some good active monitors via XLR is another way to g... | |
| To Fritz, Quicksilver, and all the exceptional makers trying to get the word out @hilde45 Interested in your purchase of the ST-35. Please post impressions in a separate thread when possible - I have a modified version running my Fritz Carbon 7s and am happy with the combination | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Some excellent comments so far / should give you lots to think about. a couple to add: Vkmusic in Vancouver sells Elekit and will assemble them for a reasonable fee i tried a 2A3 set with my 95db Omegas and wasn’t impressed- lacked drive and dy... | |
| Amplifier used w/ headphones and no speakers connected, can it be damaged? If you are using the headphone Jack then most integrated amps would not send a signal to the amp portion and there is no problem. Should be easy enough to check. If using the speaker taps then you are finer as others have indicated | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? @yesiam_a_pirate Dont you mean Audio Dimensions? I grew up in Birmingham and spent many hours there… bought a used ARC SP-3a1 from Harry - wish I still had it. Was. Very sad when he retired last year due to health issues | |
| Looking for integrated solid state amp for daily usage Belles Aria - various versions in your price range | |
| New Falcon ls3/5a Silvers in the house Nice. I think you’ll like that combination - I had original LS3/5a’s and a Dynaco ST70 back in the 1970’s and it was my first taste of higher end sound. Had an RB10 as well more recently and think you’d have to spend a lot more to do better. | |
| Transport Recommendations @vinylvalet i have the Shanling on order; will report back after I get it later this week. Seems to check all the boxes for $750. I had the Audiolab previously and liked it- sold it as I was concerned about the talk of the slot loading potentially... | |
| Can a DAC do double duty? Agree with the advice above - not issues with using two inputs to the Pontus However where I ran into an issue with the Pontus (which I love by the way) was in trying to hook up both outputs of the Pontus at the same time. I wanted to run RCA in... | |
| Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison May want to check the Shanling ET3. Supposed to beat the Schiit but haven’t seen any detailed reviews yet. $750 | |
| Recommendations on integrated amps +1 for the used AVR suggestion - either Denon or Yamaha. You can get them for less than $100 used on Facebook Marketplace. If it breaks (unlikely);then just get another I would stay away from tubes in that environment |