drubin
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| Looking for preamp suggestions I've purchased a used but fully up-to-date Ayre K5Xe with the new Maximum Performance upgrade. I can't say if I will like the way it sounds, but it meets the rest of my requirements. | |
| Are Harbeths really "all that?" My third trip is with the little sealed box models, so a different approach altogether. And not the forthcoming revision with the Radial drivers. I'm just an audio neurotic. | |
| Are Harbeths really "all that?" Yes, wine analogies are very good. So are photography analogies -- over- and underexposed, lighting, soft focus, Kodak vs. Fuji color (hmmm...not sure I remember what those two look like these days). | |
| Are Harbeths really "all that?" I've had two unsatisfactory experiences owning Harbeths, yet they continue to appeal to me every time I hear them at shows or a dealer's. So I'm about to make a third try. (This would be the definition of insanity, right?) | |
| Praise for DacMagic Has anyone compared the DacMagic with the Azur 840c digital inputs? You would think they would be close or nearly identical, but things often don't work that way. | |
| low cost but good soundi optical to coax converter Doesn't the DAC have an optical input? If so, I'd stick with that and get a good optical cable. | |
| Moving Up the ARC Chain: Some Observations Another great post by Dodgealum. Now I want to hear these pieces, especially the LS26. | |
| Looking for preamp suggestions What does BAT gear sound like? I have no direct experience with it, but have an impression that it is on the dark side and tends to sounds a bit bloated or pompous. | |
| Looking for preamp suggestions Thanks for the suggestions so far -- keep em coming. I thought someone might mention a used ARC LS26, though not sure those are available within my budget yet. | |
| How do you use a sub with active speakers On second thought: while the LFE has its own volume adjustment, it does not have a crossover adjustment and doesn't utilize the crossover setting for the hi/low level input. Because it is intended to take the purpose-made LFE or .1 signal from HT,... | |
| How do you use a sub with active speakers Interesting idea, Al. It might work. | |
| How do you use a sub with active speakers Let me answer some of the questions raised:The pre is a GamuT D3The sub is a REL R-205, which has only one low-level inputSamujohn: I'm not following the relationship between the balanced speaker connection (which fixes a hum problem I had running... | |
| How do you use a sub with active speakers Why do I not want to sum the left and right? Isn't that effectively what the REL does when connected through its high-level input wired to the left and right speaker terminals?And thanks for your help, guys. | |
| Need help with choosing a transport. Pmboyd, I hope you will not mind if I jump in and ask my own related question here rather than start a new thread.I'm also using a good DAC and feeding it largely from a headless Mac Mini server. But I still want to have easy-to-use, traditional C... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections Interesting. The REL has a three-prong plug. I will say that I think the system sounds better connected the standard way (i.e., not to chassis ground), but that may be the 6db volume difference at work. I don't want to blow up the Ayre of course, ... |