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How to make your amp more expensive
I remember reading a thread years ago talking about how you could tell the quality of an amp by its weight. My integrated only weighs 44 pounds.  Maybe I should just pitch it.😁  
Tune of the Day
   
Whats playing on your system today?
@designsfx  And you’d be right. Listening to Zoup right now and am definitely enjoying the album and will do a search for more when Zoup is over. Thank you my friend.  
Hegel H390 DAC
@stuartk  As far as me going with Denifrips, I have an American made Schiit Bifrost and it is Btight and has  thin bass. So I was looking for something different and I always wanted to try a ladder DAC.  
Hegel H390 DAC
I’ve been a separates guy since the seventies and all tube since the eighties. Getting an integrated was a big step for me. After all my research, the I was either going to get a Luxman, L-507 or the L-505UX MKll, the Hegel, H590 or the H390. I en... 
Hegel H390 DAC
Yeah, it’s pretty nice and I hear the H590 is much better and the new H600 is better still. Now that the H600 is out, the H590 are on sale for about half price new.  I can’t swing it this year, but maybe by the end of next?  
Tune of the Day
   
Tune of the Day
   
Jazz for aficionados
Haven’t listened to Kind Of Blue in a while, so I found a 24/192 version of the Legacy Edition and all it does is bring out the faults in the original recordings. I wonder if Peter Jackson would like to have a wack at it?  
Speaker binding posts with plastic covers
@czarivey  Hmm,  I must have misread something.  Back to google. Thanks.  
Whats playing on your system today?
@designsfx    And we have another winner!  Aftonland is a good listen. Thanks.  
Speaker binding posts with plastic covers
@rfprice  Now that you unscrewed them once, they should be good. And I don’t believe Deoxit has any lubricants in it. All the best.  
Holiday Habits and Pleasures
@ronboco  You’ll shoot your eye out! 😄  
Streamer to Denafrips Iris to Pontus need cable suggestions please
Plus 1 for DH Labs.   I’m using the Mirage from my streamer to my DAC. All the best.  
Have At Err!
I stopped watching him years ago.  Mikey is way to full of himself for me!