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| on the cheap WiiM Pro Plus. I have set up two low-cost systems for my college-student nieces (vintage Technics receiver + Wiim Pro + refurbed KLH 20 speakers and a KLH model 20 player/receiver/amp refurbed with a WiiM Pro.) They tested out well and reports are... | |
| Preamp advice Given the price limit specified and the preference for valves, you might try the Schiitt Freya + preamp. It is selectable between a passive setting, zero gain, a "buffered" solid state stage and a tube stage (octal, 4 tubes) with 12dB gain. It is... | |
| Finally upgrading my amp You might look at the Peachtree Carina 300. It has a dual parallel DAC (ESS Sabre 9038-type) and 300W and a phono stage. For a little over your budget is the Carina GaN, with a GanFET design. Both have a headphone amp included. For about $1700 is... | |
| Best Covers Lanie Gardner's cover Stevie Nicks' Dreams is getting lots of play. I don't think I have heard anyone do this song better. | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers Peachtree Carina GaN. Integrated, 200W, GaNFET, has a phono section (MM) if needed, does not require a DAC. | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. I am not sure what would or would not qualify as "organic." If you are looking for what some people term a "musical" as opposed to a precise presentation, then class A amps, Musical Fidelity A1 or possibly a Sugden A21 SE Signature might fit your... | |
| New Falcon ls3/5a Silvers in the house You have a nice used Yamaha with well-known provenance and which plays a 83dB BBC monitor speaker well, and it had a selectable class-A setting, rare at any price. If you are happy with the Yamaha (which are excellent amplifiers, especially for th... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? Yes, multiple times. I have bought usually with a right to test and return, and fortunately have not needed to do so. Most have been standmounts, so shipping could have been done without freight shipping with crating and palleting. In each case pu... | |
| Borresen Loudspeakers They are pushing into premium active speaker territory on price, even three-way actives. Nice to see the ribbon planar tweeter, but in a two-way, they should have gone with a Purifi woofer. | |
| Tube Integrated Amp Recommendation The AR I/50 and Margules I-240 are both excellent. The Margules is class-A. There is a head-to-head comparison online (YT) with intro and commentary in Spanish, but with extended play by both units. The newer version Willsenton R8 shouldn’t set y... | |
| Audition of a Sugden in the Seattle area Gig Harbor carries them in the Seattle area. I bought my A21SE Signature from BEK HiFi in Allentown, PA. | |
| Ken Fritz article goodlistening64: It wouldn't surprise me if the chimes were working on only one of the clocks and the other three were silenced, probably because there is never perfect synchrony. Most modern chime clocks have this feature (and a feature to sele... | |
| Muzishare X7 - Pop in Right Speaker when turned off? I would swap tubes RT to LT to see whether the pop follows a specific tube. | |
| Ken Fritz article I doubt Ken had antisocial PD. He had personality features possibly of some other PDs, but there isn't enough here to say more. Having a dysfunctional relationship with his older son is unfortunate, but not enough to make a diagnosis of anything. ... | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. This was a respectful but far less fawning take on Ken Fritz's quest than the well-edited and shot videos on him and his creation that appeared on Youtube. The costs in terms of spousal unhappiness, alcohol addiction, divorce, estrangement, lost o... |