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Klipsch speaker choices
someone please send me some klipsch so i know what joy is 
Klipsch speaker choices
what is a good inexpensive tube amp to pair with the Klipsch Heritage series? 
A good taste of DSD--what is your experience?
for instance, "Can’t you hear me Knockin" the opening guitar riff sounds identical and I think anybody would only be guessing to identify which is DSD. When Mick and the band comes in is when I notice the bigger soundstage and the smoothness of th... 
Schiit Freya plus. Is this an upgrade?
i believe the Tung Sol is a reissued tube from Chinese origin... not that this makes it a bad tube, but not an original 6SN7 which is a beautiful thing ion the right circuit. I hope the current 6SN7 that Schitt sources is great as I will probably ... 
A good taste of DSD--what is your experience?
i did a bit of reading and unfortunately, Apple does not support native DSD playback 
A good taste of DSD--what is your experience?
@geoffkait I have those same ABKO Stones files. They display as DSD 1 bit format in Audirvana.... strangley enough, they do not display as DSD 128,256, whatever when they play on my SMSL SU8. That may be due to a display or actual functional limit... 
sellers trying to sell used product for 10-20% off of list price
1 year old is about 10-20% off for new-ish productpawn shop will give you salvage value of 33% on anything NEW with transistors 
$1300-1500 DAC
TEAC NT-505there shall be only one.... 
The New Luxman SQ-N150 Tube Integrated Amp
outstanding !! 
tube pre-amp for active monitors
@soundsrealaudioI use the SMSL SU-8 dac via USB with a Wyred4Sound Re-Clocker 
tube pre-amp for active monitors
@almarg  The balanced inputs bypass the built-in dac and tone stack 
tube pre-amp for active monitors
I wonder if there is a simple stereo tube buffer I can fit between DAC and monitors?  
tube pre-amp for active monitors
@georgehifi I am using the XLR balanced inputs on the Air Pulse monitors 
tube pre-amp for active monitors
@mrdecibel I was thinking along the same lines but thought that a tube might give up some majik for the ribbon tweeters. I currently have the monitors toed in about a foot in front of me noggin. I need to take the room or of the sound field as it ... 
tube pre-amp for active monitors
@atmasphere no chi-fi would be appropos?