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| China built tube amps Your dealer is lying to you to push the products he wants to sell you, and he's using his xenophobia to appeal to people's prejudices. It's a pretty telling indication of his character, that's not someone you want to deal with. | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Based on your pre and amp, as well as you feeling Wilson is too forward, Kharma Exquisite Classique or Midi would be perfect for you. They are probably one of the best speakers I've ever heard, and go absolutely fantastic with Boulder electronics. | |
| Rank the top reference DACs you've heard From my listening experience and for my taste, MSB Select II >>>>> everything else, which include DCs Vivaldi stack, Lampizator Pacific, Emm Labs DA2, Wadax Reference DAC, Berkeley Alpha Dac Reference 3, Chord Dave + M Scaler | |
| Cambridge dac? I haven't heard the Schiit monos, but I recently heard a $150K system fed by a 10 yr old $200 Cambridge 540c CD player, and it was one of the best systems I've ever heard. There is some magic in the dual Wolfson dac in these Cambridge, I would rec... | |
| DAC? how much more $$$ to get a significant improvement over Bluesound Node? It doesn't take much to better Bluesound by a wide margin, for your budget of ~$3K, used Denafrips Terminator 1, or Holo May Spring 3 would be about the best value for money. Avoid dacs focus only measurements but sound like cardboard cutouts, li... | |
| jolida of china v. jolida of maryland? Lmao, replying to a 10 yr old thread talking about lipstick, classic. The original story is reminiscent of Audio Note UK stealing the name and design from the creators of Audio Note Japan, interesting. | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA How can a single product from a single company represent an entire industry of an entire country? | |
| Joseph vs Legacy in 7K range? For $7K you can get a used pair of Perspectives | |
| New Mojo Mystique X @branislav To answer your question, I didn’t feel that the Mystique Mojo made everything mushy or syrupy, it had okay speed and transients, but it homogenized the music, like applying a certain kind of filter to photos and videos, it gives every s... | |
| Capital Audio Fest Notes The VPI/JBL room was kind of hard to find, it was a corner room at the end of its own hallway, away from the cluster of rest of the rooms on floor 3. I only found it by asking people. | |
| Capital Audio Fest Notes I think this thread perfectly encapsulates the subjective and personal nature of audio preferences. Some of the rooms that others named as top I did not care for at all, while the best sounding room to me has not been mentioned yet. I will caveat ... | |
| New Mojo Mystique X I had the Mojo Mystique Evo B2B with the A Core upgrade for awhile. This DAC does sound very organic and natural, which is seductive at first. That said it does so at the cost of smoothing over details, higher noise floor and coloration in tone. I... | |
| New Mojo Mystique X What happened to the evo? | |
| Innuos Zenith Mk3 or something else? +1 on Auralic Aries G2/G2.1 sounding better than the Innous Zenith MK3 | |
| Best Integrated that you've heard under $5k Line Magnetic 805IA, Leben CS600, both very special |