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| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? If your experience by choice is exclusive to high-priced and difficult-to-source gear, it is easy to forget how much progress has taken place in audio quality at lower price points in the market. Progress to a level of satisfaction for many may ha... | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier Who have you contacted at eBay? You should contact the fraud prevention office there. Also, is your article listed in the North American eBay or in one of their other national auction sites. The appropriate fraud prevention office might be through... | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier eBay has a security department that can be reached by the sitemap. In the past, at least, they have had attorneys, former prosecutors with experience, on staff. You would need at least the listing number of the article you believe to have been you... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread I have used PSVane tubes for two amplifiers, both in preamp and power sections. They are very good quality. It is a big advantage to be able to get matched sets easily rather than relying on NOS suppliers where matching and even availability are u... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? The answer is "yes." How active is the preamp? How passive is the preamp? If there is gain, how is it done? What is the power supply, if there is one? Is there a DAC? Is there a phono preamp with gain? Is there a headphone amp? Are there filters? ... | |
| Auditioning Used Equipment - Am I crazy ? Offer to pay for a setup. If you buy, the payment is deposit to the purchase. | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? Source quality, for the listener, has never been better. Streaming pretty much makes CD quality ubiquitous and many systems are capable of delivering more. Analog is there for those who have or are curious to try those media. Considering the sourc... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Audio Research i/50 meets your requirement for tube with balanced inputs and at the price point you mention. | |
| New DAC issues I would expect that adding a considerably more expensive DAC would provide a immediate improvement over the Schiit DAC with the equipment you have, nothing else changing. If it doesn't, why keep it? Forget listening to it for 2-400 hours, that's r... | |
| KEF LS50 Meta The LS50 is a very good standmount speaker, and many people enjoy them. I have the powered version, LS50W2, and upgraded from the LS50W1, the original. For listening to the widest variety of music, pairing them with a subwoofer is recommended (the... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Balanced narrows the field. Audio Research I/50 meets your criteria. McIntosh [whispers] MA252 and MA352 also meet your criteria. | |
| Accuphase e-280 Review If you want a proper review of this unit, Taron at A British Audiophile has done one. He gave it a "highly recommended" rating. | |
| Surge protector A surge protector will help for certain power surges. A lightning strike will likely overspeed a typical surge protector (I recall one strike at an apartment I lived in in Florida, at about 6:00 am or so on awakening, I saw a spark come from my cl... | |
| Surge protector Does your main breaker panel have a surge protector?(It should.) If you are going to spend money on a surge protector, start there. And while your subwoofer might seem worth protecting, so are the boards in your washing machine, air conditioner, a... | |
| All in One Solution for Streaming JBL SA750 does all that. IIRC, so do several Yamaha MusicCast integrated amps. |