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| The best speaker you ever heard? Sirspeedy,You are correct in warning him that the magic could be lost with further experimentation/upgrades. After ONLY 24 years in this hobby, I have come to the conclusion that in the way audiophiles approach their system building, component syn... | |
| Digital Audio Denmark DACs I have heard the Meitner professional DAC on a number of occasions but only briefly in my system. The DAD AX24 just sounds more "natural" to my ears. Many mastering engineers have done the direct comparison between the Meitner and the DAD and in e... | |
| Digital Audio Denmark DACs I have owned the AX24 for over two years. It is the best DAC that I have ever used or heard, including the Euphonix Pacific Microsonic's Model 2. In the professional arena it is considered the best DAC available at this time in terms of its sonic ... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Rhagen, WRONG! NASA uses both Rubidium and Caesium atomic clocks. As a matter of fact most of the recent space probes and satellites use the Rubidium Atomic clock that I use in my system, it is built by EG&G. | |
| Best Integrated Amp Of All Times? The Genesis B-200 Stealth. Dark purple anodized 200 pounds of remote controllable Pure "Class A" integrated amplifier. It has a passive preamp stage and even the amount of Class A bias can be set via the remote. A real rare, esoteric, and exotic b... | |
| Acapella Triolon Excalibur speakers at RMAF 2007 Brian,Okay, Thanks for the clarification. | |
| Acapella Triolon Excalibur speakers at RMAF 2007 Brian,I'm sorry the $600K figure came from Constantine Soo's article on your home set-up; Please reference the article enclosed below:http://www.dagogo.com/Spotlight/6DaysOfLivingWithAcapella.htmlI guess that you only took $400K worth of gear to t... | |
| Acapella Triolon Excalibur speakers at RMAF 2007 Fred,You were not the only one who thought that they heard the Acapella Triolon's sound good at RMAF 2007. MGH at Audio Asylum reported:" Acapella Triolon Excaliber: The best sound at the show. Dynamics, nuance, imaging, staging, transparency, tim... | |
| Acapella Triolon Excalibur speakers at RMAF 2007 According to Cathode:"Underwhelmed by the MBL / Kharma room and the Acapella / Einstein room. Both had quite good sound, but when you consider the price, I was unimpressed. And both setups were in suitably large rooms and well-treated, leaving lit... | |
| Acapella Triolon Excalibur speakers at RMAF 2007 Thanks for the feedback Teajay. Could you ask your friend if he found the presentation of the Acapella Triolons, and Brian's system as a whole, "Dynamic" as in the case of "real" music in a live venue? What kind of music was being played? Was it C... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Professor Norm,No hard feelings. I'm sorry that I came on so strong but on this forum if you do not come strong then you get run over by people just looking to deliver a beating.As I mentioned in my previous post, before you started advocating mag... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Norm,The original thread was started on 3-14-06, if Aspera has not purchased or at least tried a number of the recommended candidates by now then he's obviously not using his system enough.To answer the original question:Passive: Any high quality ... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Ralph,There is a "High-End" faction of the pro-audio world there as well; which does use tubes and the highest quality part selections. This faction of products are quiet expensive as you can imagine.What I meant by studio gear going further than ... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Herman, Lets get together and listen to each other's systems and let's take it from there! Should we? Where are you located? Maybe I can pit stop at your place on one of my frequent trips to Shanghai, China. | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Ralph,Are you familiar with the many tube saturation devices in the Pro Audio world? These devices are design with just this purpose in mind. Beyond changing the tube saturation/distortion characteristics there are devices in the Studio world that... |