decooney
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| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. If I had to do it all over again past 45yrs in audio gear chasing, I would have started by stepping up a little more $ on higher quality and better matched sources and amplification [sooner]. Building my own speakers since the beginning, a few nic... | |
| Shout out to the Moderator(s) @jjss49 now, as for that monumentally painful and utterly sad thread on audio sciences review... i think audiogon may soon need to buy a whole new server bank just to store the oceans of unreadable words on that one! 😂🤣 Yeah, that one n... | |
| Shout out to the Moderator(s) Nice to see compliments to the moderators. It can be a thankless job to moderate nonsense posts and bots and get rid of it all. Not sure how the moderators do it. | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Simplicity. Some people don’t want to fuss with tubes, checking, or replacement. There are times I take the tubes out of rotation and play a nice Class-A solid state amp for a while. In the future, when I consolidate the system back down to a sim... | |
| Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming @lalitk Congratulations on your purchase of BP. It’s a fine sounding DAC and appropriate for pairing with decent streamer like Vault. I am currently using a SS DAC, which I am extremely happy with. There are no valve components in my system. I... | |
| Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming @lalitk I suggest trying an external DAC with Vault, you should hear noticeable improvement over its internal DAC which is decent at best. May be consider a NOS DAC like Border Patrol, By chance you happen to own the BP dac now? I ask becau... | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @w123ale "...detailed but not etched treble". Did you find the Cygnus interconnects to be etched treble? They are more revealing or have a tad more over-exposed sound in my system, depending on which dac or source I’m running. imo Cygnus g... | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @w123ale Update: listening to the Shunyata interconnects to DAC and to amps. Well heck, sounding pretty balanced and getting out of the way. Not wow, but just this sounds like music. Hmm, this won’t be easy to sort out. Both cable sets are quite ... | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @w123ale Probably will put them aside for a couple of days and focus on the Cardas. When testing gear, always a good test for me is when I just keep listening to my test songs through, rather than jumping around between tracks. --------------... | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects "@jjss49 it amazes me that cardas would make an overtly warm and dull cable in their ’clear’ line"... Yes, it is confusing, they threw one in the middle of the line to make that so. I also own(ed) Clear Cygnus and now Clear Reflection, and man... | |
| Tube Preamp, uses 6sn7/6sl7. With or Without Phono; With or Without Remote Volume, @testpilot Cary SLP-98 or SLP-05. +1. I’ve had my SLP-98 past 5 years and totally enjoy it. Responsive to tube rolling, with nos, or new 6sn7 tubes. Has a remote and dual pre-out if you want to run dual subs too. You can buy it w/wo phono st... | |
| New video review of Fritz Carbon 7 SE Mk. II "Punches above its weight" cool little speakers, possibly on my list for a future consolidated and downsized system, with lower wattage :) | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops "Nowadays the millennials are consuming their music with Apple AirPods. Portable and discrete. But I think money has a lot to do with it. Millennia’s don’t seem to have the disposable income that I we had years ago." To help bridge the ge... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops @ghdprentice got to the first answer I had too, yep "the internet". That happened. It opened a new world of used gear, then more new gear. It offered up a few hours drive -or- mail order options across a continent which hurt local dealers for sur... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Kinda sums it up. It’s all challenge based, not about helpful replies and guidance. Home audio and pro audio involve different camps and cables, with different designs and functions for different reasons. No debate there. @donavabdear ... "To... |