deadhead1000
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| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds I own the Luxman AXII - love the sound, luxman says it’s 30 watts pure class A, but reviews have measured that it’s 30 watts pure class A and after that A-B up to 90 watts. I don’t know who is right, but it sounds great and has enough power for my... | |
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable I lusted for McIntosh equipment for years. I was finally able to afford an integrated a few years back, but was never happy with it. They make great stuff, so I am not sure if it was a mis-match with the speakers, my expectations were too high, or... | |
| Portable external ssd drive as a music source It all makes sense, although I'd suggest going with 2TB or even more, unless you are 1000% sure you won't be adding more music to it. Nothing worse then running out of space and having to buy yet another SSD and then moving your files to the new l... | |
| Primer on SSD and internal hard drives To answer your specific questions: So what is the difference between an internal hard drive and an SSD? Is one preferable? ----- SSD can be external or internal, the comparison is a spinning disk or a SSD (explained above quite nicely). I prefer... | |
| School Of Rock new video Thanks for Sharing. Really enjoyable. | |
| What To Do? Register/certified letter first, but be clear in the letter about the next steps, which is small claims court. It It might be a pain for you, but for him it will be a major issue with having two jobs. You can always cancel the small claims court a... | |
| SVS or REVEL Subwoofer I had a Velodyne for years and went with JL Audio over REL, but only because it had it's own ARC adjustment. For you with ARC, I'd suggest the REL. | |
| Is Aurender N10 still a good option I upgraded from Bluesound to the N200 and love the N200. I used the same PS Audio DAC on both of them. I know I could probably get even more from the N200 if I upgraded the DAC now. I did look at the N10, but decided to get get the latest from A... | |
| Electronics for Harbeths -- $5-10K I have Harbeth 30.2 and had a McIntosh integrated which in my opinion did not match well. I switched to a Luxman 590AXii class A and it’s a keeper. Close in sound to tubes, plenty of power (Luxman under rates their power.) I understand your commen... | |
| New Aurender conductor V4 app They seemed to have changed things in V4 that worked fine in V3. whoever is in charge of their product management should be fired. You don’t fix what isn’t broken. And I haven’t seen any real-worthwhile improvements either. someone there doesn’t k... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? I find it very easy to tell the difference between DACs and I am not some golden ear guy. But as you read in several replies, some can and some cannot tell the difference. Would save me a lot of money if I couldn’t, but I can. | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. I'll respond in a different way. When I brought my first good system back in 1979, nothing too fancy, but it sounded great (Marantz receiver, Advent speakers, Pioneer turntable with Shure M95 cart.) - you would call it a low-end audiophile system ... | |
| Streamer Operating System Storage: SSD vs EEPROM? @Yage and @Carlsbad2 are correct. The SSD's are for storing the music, not the OS. I have 30+ Years in IT and also own a N200 and love it. I am using two 5TB SSD's. | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature I went with Class A and personally, I don't miss the tubes. I can listen immediately and it warms up in just minutes anyway. Hot even, but not as bad as tubes. You also can up the power for much less cost. I might get hate mail for saying this, w... | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? Both @johnread57 @mrdecibel are spot on. Speakers first, and then have him listen to the music he likes and enjoys already. I'll explain why: First, speakers make more of a difference to newbie's then electronics. Second, a good friend of mi... |