decooney
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| Any regrets in selling gear? @dekay funny you say that, re: "I keep planning to go with a simple SS setup with more traditional speakers, but doing so keeps getting put on the back burner." Last year I had a friend who worked at Threshold for Nelson upgrade a Pass/F... | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? @bgross Audio Note, Meishu Line... Good God, what was I thinking!? Ouch, can truly relate. It’s a work of art inside too. I listen to the Mieshu integrated at a friends place every few months, and compare sound to more expensive amps further u... | |
| ??? Full Loom vs Mix ??? You can try either method. Both work, and yield different results you might like. The wiring in your components is not all the same now - it’s already intermixed. While I’m back to running a full loom of Cardas now, end to end from source, digital... | |
| Ayon Triton Evo Integrated @mfisher702 your PAPs are reasonably efficient at 96db, correct?. Unless you need more power than you have now (which seems like plenty for your speakers) already, before anything else take extra time to evaluate if your KT150s are enough. Sure, t... | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? "@dekay Decooney: I have Bottlehead Paramours paired with vintage Elac S517 wide band drivers in Acousticraft cabinets." Nice, that Paramour kit looks like fun to build. By chance did you get a chance to directly compare them to Dennis’ recent ... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? @bunkertoy going slightly in a different direction from some responses here, I’d share your BelCanto 3.7 is quite nice as-is. You might have to spend quite a bit more $ than some of the lower cost R2R dacs mentioned to beat what you have now = whi... | |
| Speaker cables with good timbre @antigrunge2 great idea, taking it one step better - deleted my former posts targeted at one individual in response to nonsense. I have nothing to prove about cables, testing, or nice timbre or tone that Im listening to right now. After 45 years o... | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? @dekay "...but much prefer DH/SET to them (mainly miss the PAS preamps when running tape/line through them - phono was so-so)." I still have one DH preamp and let go of all of my higher power DH/Cary and lower power DH/Inspire amps. Came close ... | |
| Ayon Triton Evo Integrated Man that is a beast, and appears it can run 70w in parallel single ended Triode too, correct?. Very nice. My Monos run only run two KT150s or KT120s per amp and its plenty for my less efficient speakers. Its cool to see the 6SN7s and 12au7s in y... | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? Sure, however it opened opportunities to try others. As some have indicated here, after they cycle through a bunch of stuff over the years or decades - sometimes , they go back and repurchase that lost piece of gear to tray again to see if its as ... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands @jimbones "What makes me enamored with SS is the consistency with which it operated. Same results every time. I am looking for clarity, dynamics and a good sense of space from the new preamp. I doesnt have to be THE purest in neutrality as I am c... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh Better to read a story about a buyout vs. another legacy company going defunct. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Bring your friend to an audio show or maybe a tour of other peoples systems in your area. Compare from there and discuss what you hear and think about each system. Then go back home and listen to each of your own systems to figure out how they su... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit @jimbones does your Nad M23 amplifier mentioned in your original post hold up to that classical music challenge for you? | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit @jimbones wow, sounds like you have all the bases covered and then some, and access to capable people around you to test things out. Very nice. The only reason I commented was the original post was the possibility of a solid state preamp instead... |