dchang05
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| Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp? If you match a top level preamp with a lower level amp, you will reveal all the weak points of the amp. If you match a top level amp with a lower level preamp, you will never hear the top performance of your amp. So I agree they are equally import... | |
| Is Not Responding To An Offer Just Plain Rude? I wish there is an automatic reject option to offers that are lower than seller's desired asking price. eBay has such options that if the offer is too low than it will be rejected automatically so seller does not need to respond. In this particula... | |
| Recommendation for a replacement speaker cable Anticables level 3.1 speaker cable was a great improvement over Canare 4s11 in my home theater system. | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? The question is do you hear SQ improvement on other types of cables after break in? If you do, then of course AC cords also need break in. If you don’t, my next question is do you hear SQ improvement after components break in? My personal experien... | |
| High end Class D amps? It seems whenever “Class D” amps are mentioned they brought up a bunch haters. They are relatively cheaper to make and they don’t look as impressive as Class A amps for sure. They typically come in smaller package and are way too light compared to... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant 15........ I purchased BHK preamp, M1200, and P15 together three weeks ago. The first week they sounded flat and dull, but now they are phenomenal. It may well be PS Audio designed their gears to match well with their power plants. P15 may not give as much i... | |
| High end Class D amps? The new PS Audio M1200 monoblocks are as powerful as any amps out there. Yet they sounded so smooth and sweet thanks to the 12AU7 tubes at the input stage. | |
| Capped off? How about those nice looking XLR caps in both males and females selling at Amazon? Anyone has tried those yet? They really look cool. | |
| Capped off? I will get some caps just for the cool factor. Unless there’re people out there can really hear improvement, not difference, from those shorting plugs. | |
| Analog vs digital? When I stream one of my long playlists through PS Audio DirectStream DAC, the sound is as good as it gets for me (yes, I know it can get better, but there is always something better out there whether it is analog or digital). I can replay them 100... | |
| Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor? How about some newer CDs? Melody Gardot's Sunset in The Blue, The Strokes' The Abnormal, and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio's What a Wonderful Trio in 24-bits 352.8 Hz mastering. Okay, the last one is more for audiophile but it is a darn great recording! | |
| The conclusion I've reached about speakers I changed speakers only three time in the last 30 years and each time was because the new ones sounded a lot better to me. But that does not happen often. I do envoy people that could not hear the difference between speakers, components, and acces... | |
| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- I just got my PS Audio Stellar M1200s amp. They are hybrid design class D with tube input. They are barely warm after hours of playing. In fact they are designed to be stacked up because they emit little heat. The sound is awesome by the way. |