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| Help! Best amp for Rockport Aviors? Jason,I've been reading reviews on your Spectral DMA-260 and the reviews say it has plenty of bass. That just means it had plenty of bass when the owner or reviewer used his speakers, not your Aviors. If you can remove your pre-amp from the syste... | |
| Help! Best amp for Rockport Aviors? Synergistic Research's latest high-end cables, the Atmosphere Level 4. I can't imagine that your cables are the main reason. | |
| Help! Best amp for Rockport Aviors? Jason,I have a pair of Rockport Altairs and I went through the same amp-searching exercise when I purchased them. I realize the Altairs are different than the Aviors, but perhaps my experience will be of some assistance to you.First, I've never fo... | |
| Who has tried "TIDAL" vs other streaming applications? IMO, TIDAL is the best value we audiophiles have as a source for music for our music listening rooms, cars and when travelling. With access to over 35 million songs, $20/month for the HiFi (Lossless) option is a steal. I didn't know about the stud... | |
| What's the most overrated or overpriced piece of equipment you own, have owned or come by? 2 Wavelength Audio USB DACs, the Brick and the Cosecant models. I owned pre-async versions so I don't know if the async versions represented a major improvement. | |
| best integrated amp. I've owned Pass Labs XA100.5 monoblocks, a VAC Phi300.1A amp with a VAC preamp and recently auditioned a $30k Burmester 911 MkIII amp and none of them beat my Devialet Expert 200 for sound quality with my Rockport Altair speakers with power to spa... | |
| DAC or CD Player. Help! RSA,I agree with audioman2015. If you haven't purchased a CD player or transport, you may want to consider using a computer or music server device and DAC instead.. With so many subscription streaming options available such as TIDAL HiFi (Lossless... | |
| The one component that you wish you had not bought The early non-async versions of the Wavelength Brick USB DAC and the Wavelength Cosecant USB DAC. Unfortunately it took me 2 Wavelength DACs to figure out Gordon Rankin made some inferior DACs and making them tube based probably hurt them more tha... | |
| pros and cons: beryllium vs ribbon tweeters in sound and emotions terms I'm surprised no one has commented about plasma tweeters such as those in Lansche speakers. I've heard all types of tweeters including Be tweeters in my current Rockport speakers. IMO, the Corona plasma tweeter is the smoothest and distortion fre... | |
| DAC vs. Preamp For speakers, if you have the room, there's a pair of JM Lab Utopias on A'gon. The seller is asking $12,500. I recently sold a pair in terrific condition for $10,000 so the seller may have some room to lower his price. These speakers are well wo... | |
| DAC vs. Preamp What type of speakers do you have? | |
| DAC vs. Preamp Mike,Have you tried a Devialet D200? After hearing one, you may be like others Devialet owners who are done with separates. It'll take care of your amp, pre-amp & DAC and will drive any speaker load. Prior to the Devialet, I've had separate h... | |
| Any recent experience w/Ridge Street Audio? It pains me to write this as I've been doing business with Robert of Ridge Street Audio for mearly 10 years. In June 2012 I paid him $1,600 for new cables and sent him over $4,000 worth of Alethias interconnects and speaker cables I sent him for m... | |
| What are the "must have" HD Tracks albums? Has anyone noticed that some of the HDTracks songs are mixed much different than the redbook version? Specifically on the Seal Best 1991 - 2004 album at the 4:32 mark of the song 'Don't Cry', the backup vocals are almost non-existent. It sounded a... | |
| Zodiac Gold w/Volticus vs Bel Canto w/VBS-1 I recently purchased a Zodiac Gold + Voltikus power supply. I have about 300 hours of break-in but right out of the box I knew it was a keeper. I have it connected to a 2011 Mac Mini via USB and I use PureMusic for playback. I don't use it as a di... |