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| MoFi or Harbeth (used) Given your room size, the Pointsource 10 will deliver more pressurization than that model Harbeth, whatever its other virtues. It comes down to your priorities. Based on my listening experience, the Pointsource 10 is balanced to be neutral, and f... | |
| Would McIntosh Auto Transformers affect speaker sound? I am 72 and tinnitus has ruined my critical listening capacity, but my first job in HiFi was at a McIntosh dealer. At age 21, my ears were fine, and although I thought I knew a thing or two about audio, I was really just beginning to learn. Our de... | |
| Need A High Compliance Cartridge You can buy an Ortofon OM5e Super for $79.99 and then purchase an OM40 Stylus for $340.00. That's a high compliance low mass cart with an aggressive line contact nude stylus. I sold one like this to a guy who had inherited an Infinty Black Widow ... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? As someone old enough to remember when Switchcraft was the upgrade, and who was present in the business when Noel Lee arrived, I want to remind everyone here that the principle reason there is a cable business is simply greed. I have collected man... | |
| Revel Salon 2 If you have a room in which they can thrive and are willing to set them up properly to deliver what they are capable of, then this is a screaming good deal you will be hard pressed to match, let alone beat. Highly accurate for real music truth. | |
| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? VPI magic brick is perfect for this! | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? I cast my vote for another Russian, Emil Gilels. His Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin performances are unequalled in my opinion. Many other composer’s too. I would also mention Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, and for Mozart, Mutsiko Uchida. | |
| Starting Over and I need your help Of all the ways to use a Node, Apple Music is among the worst. Airplay is convenient but not the top choice. Qobuz is fully integrated into BluOS. Then get a linestage integrated from a company like Van Alstine and give it a whirl. An outboard DAC... | |
| Tidal removing all MQA The HDTracks linkup with Lenbrook is not a done deal, and may never be. They need to develop a service model and pricing strategy that is competitive with the established names. The need for special playback circuitry will be an impediment. I own ... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I still use early Rod Stewart and Van Morrison recordings to judge my system changes for this very reason…those records convey both a high quality of sonic representation, AND a joy of musical spontaneity that engages and excites me. “Cut Across ... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i I work in an audio store part time, and all of us are dinosaurs. We sell Bluesound and have had a hard time finding something better that isn’t crazily expensive. I personally use an N130 with an LHY LPS and a Mytek Liberty DAC via USB to stream ... | |
| Suggestions for testing a never installed, 20-year boxed amp. Pyramid does good work. And they are a Harman authorized servicer. | |
| Need recommendations on 15ft speaker cables My advice is to buy a high quality but affordable cable set to use as a benchmark before spending big money. Erik mentioned Mogami, and Canare is another, both available from World's Best Cables on Amazon, see: Canare 4S11 or Mogami 3082 Once yo... | |
| 12 wire compared to Nordost Blue Heaven Speaker Cable? As a long time slave in the mines of mid-fi, let me help OP with this. The Denon DRA-697CI is a very good mid-fi receiver. When it was current it sold for around $800.00 iirc, so it is not an entry level item, and has a fairly unusual feature set ... | |
| Difference between Bluesound Node, Node 2, Node 2i, NodeX The X also implemented the low output impedance THX headphone circuit and replaced the 3.5mm headphone jack with a 6.3mm. That’s in addition to employing the ESS Sabre DAC, which the other Nodes did not. As a front end only, the N130 should be id... |