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| Man this is frustrating My go-to source for interconnects & power cables is Signal Cable. Their prices are more than reasonable; built-quality & sound of cables more than satisfactory; and the guy who owns the place is tops in customer service.Here's a link to in... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Second "Morph the Cat" (astounding for demo of entire bass range...not just extension, but explosive dynamics).2 others that also have a ton of bass:-- Little Roy, "Battle in Seattle," extremely well recorded & produced reggae covers of Kurt C... | |
| Yggy DAC I have owned multiple DACs over the years--all connected with desktop audio, and none in the multi $1K range common in big living room audiophile setups (which I had years ago, pre-DACs). Anyway, I have most definitely heard differences between va... | |
| Warm, lush and dark ... Dac up to 1.2K 2 general suggestions to provide the lush, non "digital" sounding digital signal you want:1 - Any resistor ladder (R2 R) DAC, as opposed to the more common delta-sigma design; 2 - And the ultimate R2 R variant: non-oversampling.I own 1 of each, bo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I haven't had my analog rig set up since 1990, so take this comment with a grain of salt. When my big living room system was at its peak in our previous house (VPI TT/Grado Arm/Vandersteen 4s/tube amps, preamps), I found out the hard way these 2 t... | |
| How much does DAC ‘Reality’ cost in 2017? I've recommended these things a few times before on Audiogon:-- TECHNOLOGY: the best "digital" I've ever heard is R2 R (resistor ladder) designs.-- I own 2 of those: the Audio GD DAC-19; and the Audio GD NOS 19 (the non-oversampling version of the... | |
| Which dac or other suggestions I've been away from big living room systems for quite awhile (ie, tube preamps, amps, subs/speakers). It has been all desktop audio for me over the past decade.I've owned 4 DACs for the desktop. Never heard any big-bucks audiophile approved models... | |
| Best Subwoofer To Use With A Two Way Speaker System I own the least expensive 12" sealed subwoofer made by SVS--the SB 1000 (just 1...not enough room for 2). It cost ~$500 + shipping. The sound is excellent in every way: powerful, deep, impactful, tuneful bass (sealed is obviously the way to go for... | |
| The one that got away This question brings back painful memories. "The one that got away" in my case was one of the early Adcom 200 wpc amps (forget the model #). I purchased in ~1986 and liked it well enough. Then had it modified by some then well-regarded mod outfit,... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? Re this: teo_audio118 posts06-08-2017 12:01pmI tend to listen to redbook, for the most part, but I’m using a ladder or R2R DAC. No delta-sigma single bit DAC here.Which makes a huge difference, IMO. When folks hear it they keep asking me how to ... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Forgot to say the SB-1000 costs $500 each; X 2 = $1000 (done). | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener For $1,000 & sealed sub(s), there's only 1 choice that makes sense IMO: the SVS SB-1000. It's a compact, powered, sealed 12" sub. I use one in my home office (where I have a relatively refined desktop audio system). It sounds very good and I o... | |
| Initial impressions of my new Vandersteen Quatro's in Audi Havana Black @gdnrbob, he probably was using a typical receiver of the day (2CH, maybe 60wpc max, power supply the size of a pack of cigarettes, if that).I was using real power on my Vandersteen 4's (100 wpc tube amp on mids + treble inputs) & a 200 wpc SS... | |
| Going from computer audio to dedicated streamer I got my first V-Link ~10 yrs ago (a 24/96 model). The DAC I had at the time, a Stello unit, ran on USB straight in from Windows XP desktop. As soon as I put the V-Link in the system and ran signal to the Stello via toslink, the sound became sligh... | |
| Initial impressions of my new Vandersteen Quatro's in Audi Havana Black Back in the mid- to late-1980's, after the audiophile bug hit me hard, I picked up a used pair of Vandersteen IV's, his then-flagship. It was a revelation to me then, and in some has yet to be surpassed. Every speaker mfr "voices" their speaker. V... |