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| DAC diminishing returns DACs do make a difference. I find the differences aren't all that subtle, but more subtle than different speakers or headphones. I read nothing but good things about the Pontus. | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? +1 for Signal Cable. I also have several 2M Transparent Audio MusicLink cables. Those are the best-sounding cables I have... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit These days when I google reviews for an audio product and links come back for ASR, I just ignore them. I’ve read enough ASR reviews to know how little they correlate to the actual sound of audio gear....and music itself. Reviewers like that spew ... | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive I recently purchased a well-reviewed & very powerful headphone amplifier that I have running off my DAC, which outputs 3.0 volts single-ended (50% higher than the nominal 2.0 volts output standard that gave me no gain issues). Well, between t... | |
| A first Back in the mid- to late-1980s I lived across the street from a well-known jazz musician. I also had a big/serious 2 channel system that pleased me to no end (Vandersteen 4s + big Music Reference tube amp for mains & SS for integrated subs + V... | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? I’ve run a single sub + 2 desktop main speakers for ~15 years. Until ~5 years ago the mains were powered; then I switched over to a series of passives. For me, the hard part of subs wasn’t placement--I only had one placement option, and luckily a... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? Congratulations on having a wise audio plan. The system you outline will be more than fine to figure out what vinyl is all about. Once you hear vinyl played well, there may be no doing back... | |
| Favorite religious song I saw THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS on PBS, then on Broadway. I've never recovered from it. Always loved gospel music, and this is the top of the mountain of Gospel: | |
| "Too much gain"? (Cary SLP05 question) I don’t own any Cary gear so can’t comment on that aspect of this thread. But I surely do know about gain problems in my main desktop system. I’ve wrestled with excessive gain in this system for years, always with the same symptoms: the main pream... | |
| No love for Legacy Audio @mikekollar, FYI I'm a clam and I'm not happy. None of the clams I know are happy. | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? 2 points: 1 - smodtactical +1 re Amir 2 - And in hi-end audio circa 2022, <$30K isn't even considered an "expensive" speaker | |
| Let me explain something to you jive turkeys. I haven't been called a jive turkey since Nixon was in office. It brings back good memories, believe it or not. | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. Three points: 1 - Eric Clapton is a great blues guitarist. He was on top a very long time for good reason 2 - Eric Clapton is also aging gracelessly and saying dumbass stuff about vaccines in particular. If you go back and look for it, he always... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? I've been an audio nutjob since the 1980s. In the last ~15 years, all the audio that mattered to me had to fit in a 13' x 13' home office. Now I have 2 systems here: the main one is speakers + amp + sub + DAC + 2 headphone amplifiers; side-system ... | |
| Better R2R DAC Recommendation? +1 for the MHDT Labs Orchid. Especially after I rolled the stock tube, it got even better (and it started out sounding very good). Don't forget the considerable goodness a quality DDC can bring to the DAC party. As soon as I put my new Matrix Au... |