cundare2
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| Question for Ayre EX-8 owners Thanks for the quick & smart responses, everybody! I can’t believe that this simple resolution didn’t occur to me! Duh! I love this forum. I just saved $1000. | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging Lower-end Magneplanars. But when it comes to soundstage, cables, room acoustics, & power conditioning are essentail. You're talking about very tiny phase & amplitude | |
| Nowhere to hear speakers and amps anymore! @soix: Sigh. To be clear, I’m not complaining (at least I wasn't intending to), just summarizing the current situation, which I’m sure I share with many others. If you have a solution, let’s hear it. As for me, I’ve, um, adapted. I simply researc... | |
| Nowhere to hear speakers and amps anymore! It’s a problem. For example, there are no high-end dealers with showrooms in my entire state, except for a sound-reinforcement company that has a small room with a few McIntosh components. And unfortunately, traveling out of state is not an optio... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. I think this whole thread is a bit silly, but hey, it sucked me in, so whadoeyeno? Regardless, I have two peripherally related comments: i) The more one understands about psychoascoustics -- about how the brain perceives audio -- the more obviou... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? simonmoon: Nice to find another RiO fan -- we’re few & far between. But I have to disagree on one issue: the RiO bands span a huge breadth of styles -- and so does the term "jazz." If Cecil Taylor’s atonal piano improvisations are jazz, i... | |
| Is there a way to switch one set of speakers between two sound systems? alaskaman: Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I solved my problem the hard way. I've ordered an Ayre EX-8 integrated that includes all the functionality I'd need to switch between its internal amp and an alternate signal path. And that's jus... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? The threshold issue here is: "What do you mean by 'jazz' "? Ellington, Mahavishnu, Wynton, Alice Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Sun Ra, Sinatra? And are you including boots? But here's my two bits: In the 1970s & 1980s, I collected a lot of mind-... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? curiousjm: This one's easy, and I think many of the posters have implied the same thing. If you replace a component with an ostensibly better component, but don't hear a difference, there's one obvious conclusion: The component you replaced wasn... | |
| New DAC with streamer markmuse, I've been tossing around the idea of either a DSD MK1 or MK2. I expect the asking price for the older model to drop considerably, esp. after the positive MK2 review in TAS. In your experience, is there a significant difference in soni... | |
| Electronics for Harbeths -- $5-10K honey0ooi: Thanks for the suggestions, but options like that are not available in my area. Anyway, at this point, I think I’ve already found an outstanding solution in the Ayre, which seems to be a near-perfect fit. Charlie Hansen’s clever "diamo... | |
| Electronics for Harbeths -- $5-10K kennyc: I understand & thanks for the follow-up. Everything I've heard assures me that the Hegel would be a fine choice. The Ayre seemed to be an even better fit, and I think I"m committed to the EX-8 at this point, but I'm sure I would have... | |
| 10 gauge power cord. Too much power for tube amp? erik_squires: slightly off-topic. Do you know of any similar devices that can display noise levels, relative to a 120V/60Hz signal? Boy, that would be useful, especially if it let you specify frequency range. | |
| Sub Wiring Only caveat is if you're using an Audio Research tube amp. ARC has its own, slightly different, recommended configuration for driving full-range speakers & a sub from the same outputs. | |
| Nice vintage $2k Turntable, cartridge, and phono stage Have you read the Recommended Components lists published by Stereophile & The Absolute Sound? Lots of ideas there, all vetted by people who compare such gear all the time. Another source is anything that Michael Fremer has published, such as ... |