clio09
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| Need Advice on a DAC for my Music Server? If you like the sound of the Naim gear I can't see you liking the Bel Canto or the Benchmark. One thing you may want to consider is the Emprical Audio Off Ram Turbo (modified M-Transit) with a DAC. Emprical modifies the Benchmark, but I would also... | |
| First Sound Preamp Owner's - What NOS tubes????? I don't think he is at CES as I spoke to him yesterday and while his gear might be there, I'm pretty sure he isn't. He also mentioned he loved the EH 6922 gold pins is his preamps. | |
| Determining polarity? and Modulus3A question also Faziod,Have you used this? This is exactly what I am looking for. Is there any chance for sound degradation? Any more information you can provide would be great. Feel free to email me. | |
| Best preamp is no preamp: always true? smokester - very interesting response. I have been researching passive preamps of late and have been getting quite confused in the process. Resistive versus transformer-based versus autoformers, where does it end. Interestingly I had a conversatio... | |
| Aesthetix Calypso and Herron VTSP 2 Tomryan, I hope to meet Jud Barber this weekend at CES and listen to the LA-150. However, I was a little disappointed to find out that you can no longer upgrade from the LA-100 to LA-150. That would have been more cost effective for me. | |
| Aesthetix Calypso and Herron VTSP 2 Oh what the heck, we had the Joule LA-200 and LA-150 mentioned, I'll throw in the LA-100 MkIII. I hope to be comparing it to the Herron shortly. The Joule is quite a nice performer though. | |
| PS Audio Xstream Statements vs. RSA Poeima You need to let the RASD break in a bit more. Robert puts them on a burn-in device for about 48 hours before he ships them, but recommends you let them run at least another 100 or so hours before making any judgements.In my case, I'm comparing the... | |
| How good are the AES Sixpacs??? Some people have said that the Six Packs are better than the Cary V12i (they share similar designs as AES is sort of the lab for future Cary products). I owned the V12i and prior to purchasing it thought hard about getting the Six Packs. I just go... | |
| Need CD interconnect advice. I'll second the Pulsars which I believe have a 60 day trial. I've used them in my system before with the WBT NextGen Silver ends. I also am impressed with Alpha Core products as well and use their speaker cable, but have no experience with their I... | |
| CD-player for $1100 - Can I do any better? Tonyptony - I have emailed you with some information on the SB2. | |
| Recommendations, should I upgrade DAC or CD Romad,Personally I would go with the Audio Mirror, but in the Audio Note line in your price range you're probably looking at the 1.1 or 1.1x. These are good units but to really experience the Audio Note sound you should try to move up to at least ... | |
| Recommendations, should I upgrade DAC or CD Try your Meridian transport with some of the excellent value non-os DACs on the market like Audio Note, Audio Mirror, Scott Nixon, etc. The non-os design is simple and is not fatiguing. The prices would range from $500 - $750 new/used. You could t... | |
| Recommend tube amp for $3.5K used It sounds like you are set on a tube amp, but are you open to solid state? The reason I ask is I was previously using a Cary V12i that offered 50 watts triode and 100 watts ultralinear, which appears to be enough to drive your speakers (if you dec... | |
| Need advise choosing speaker wire Second the Alpha Core. I'm using the Goertz MI-2 Veracity copper speaker cables and they have been a great addition to my system. | |
| CD-player for $1100 - Can I do any better? Tonyptony,I listened to the SB2s as modified by Red Wine Audio and Bolder Cable. Analog to DAC and using the internal DAC. External DAC was best. I also listened to the Off Ramp Turbo from Emprical. I thought the Off Ramp Turbo was better than the... |