carlsbad
Responses from carlsbad
| SET amplifier (for AvantGarde Duo's-original) recommendations What a cool set of speakers. at 110dB, you need one watt or less in most listening situations. I have a Tektron (italian maker) Amp that uses 45, 2A3, or 300b and the 45’s are less than 2 watts and more than enough with my 96dB speakers. The 845s... | |
| 2023 Florida Audio Expo Show Report I'm yet to figure out how @rick2000 gets paid for shilling all these products. | |
| Tube DACs The rule is that there is no rule. | |
| Where do you stop? Love how Mr Skeptic quotes a few numbers and concludes obviously you can't hear the difference. He should apply for work at those bozos website that think they can take a few measurements and conclude $10 chinese DACs are better than true high en... | |
| "High end" store snobbery So they have more low end inventory than they need. They should have worded it that way. | |
| Where is the Multichannel Music at? @lalitk So are all my favoite artists available on Atmos? And where do I find a high end 5 channel SET? I assume most people are playing this throught an HT reciever? I never use my HT reciever for music. It is good enough for movies but not i... | |
| Martin Logan CLS II New Panels (Worth it)? I have a pair of CLS speakers. I was about to buy new panels for them when I found another speaker that has as good a midrange performance as the CLS (very hard to do) and sensitivity to work with a tube amp. So the CLS speakers are in my backup... | |
| Where do you stop? @eryoung2k Gold is not as good a conductor as copper but I can see that it might appeak to uneducated rich guys. | |
| Where do you stop? I'm having an amp built with all internal silver wiring. That said, silver isn't always better. It is however, always about 7% better conductor than copper. However, conductance (inverse of resisistance) isn't always the governing parameter. ... | |
| Advice or experience with shipping speakers using freight companies Freight won't be less expensive. | |
| Streamers? There are lots of good streamers out there. I usually tell people to figure out which one they like the interface to and whether they will ever want to use Roon. However, while you figure it out, there are some very good inexpensive streamers ou... | |
| New Synergistic Master Fuse I would never buy an amp that I couldn't afford to replace. And many of these fuses approach the value of the amp they are supposed to protect by destroying themselves. I'll stick to my approach of no fuse and I'm prepared to replace (or more li... | |
| Bluetooth speaker that you can disable the startup/shutdown sound? My experience with bluetooth speakers is limited to people haveing them playing loudly in inappropriate locations....not a fan. | |
| Where is the Multichannel Music at? I've seen multichannel music come and go. I had an acura that had 5 channel sound and played DVD audio. I had a few of them but they were expensive and soon were no longer made. there will be other attempts. I won't be an early adopter. Unt... | |
| Need help! First step into high end audio If you really love music, then your 2 channel system should be totally stand alone with an HT bypass on your amp (Kinki studios Ex-m1+ is a great one). Then add a totally seperate HT amp and use the HT bypass to let your 2 channel system provice t... |