ejr1953
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| Enjoying My New Focal Sopra No2's Bill_k,The room is 26'x26', with a 10'x10' alcove, wall to wall carpeting, very little glass.I moved my system down from the (much smaller) living room to the "man cave" and found my old Velodyne Optimum 10 sub woofer just could not fill the new r... | |
| TUBE AMP LOVERS - What SS amp makes you smile??? I searched for several months for a new set of speakers and found that the McIntosh C50 pre amp and MC452 power amp combination was one that seemed to make even the most "unforgiving" speakers sound great!I was fortunate to find on Audiogon that p... | |
| Enjoying My New Focal Sopra No2's Jafant,My system:PS Audio P10 Power PlanPS Audio DirectStream DACAutonomic MMS-5A Music Server (with all hi res AIFF files)McIntosh C50 PreampMcIntosh MC452 Power AmpWireworld CablingJL Audio F113V2 Sub Woofers (2)Focal Sopra No2 SpeakersSennheise... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? I completed my quest for a new set of speakers, a week ago received my new Focal Sopra No2's.During my search, one audio salesman asked me if I prefer speakers which were "analytic" or ones that were "musical". He characterized the Wilson & Ma... | |
| Want seperates and have an integrated Mcintosh I recently snagged a C50/MC452 on Audiogon, replacing a MAC6700 I really enjoyed, selling it to someone on Audiogon who loves his new McIntosh.I moved my system to a room that was more than double the size and the extra power and the improvement i... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? After nearly a year of auditioning a whole host of speakers to replace the one's I have, I kept hearing great musicality with (now don't have a heart attack when you read this), a McIntosh C50 pre amp/MC452 power amp combination. I recently spent ... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I've enjoyed a pair of Totem Element Fire monitors (with a subwoofer) for 4+ years.I had the hots to see if another speaker would catch my ear, after getting permission from "the boss" to move the audio system down to our family room (now referred... | |
| Best tube amp choice for Focal Electra 1038 Be I know lots of audiophiles will roll their eyes when they read this, but when I was out there auditioning speakers to purchase, eventually ordering a pair of Focal Sopra No2's, I found the McIntosh C50/MC452 to be an excellent match for those spea... | |
| Magico S5 review I've had a pair of Totem Fire Monitors for 3+ years now, enjoy them a lot (with a Velodyne sub woofer), have auditioned some floor standing speakers, but cannot accommodate ones that are very deep (front to back measurement).I was fairly impressed... | |
| Which Turntable?? I'm not a fan of analog, but stumbled upon a manufacturer who makes a laser turntable, ELP from Japan. Check them out. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I have been enjoying my new PS Audio DirectStream DAC now for two months, and it never ceases to put a smile on my face!Almost every album I listen to now has content I was not enjoying before, it might be a quiet guitar on one channel, some backu... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify I have both and will keep both.My wife shares Spotify playlists with her friends and enjoys it on her iPad.I have Spotify & Tidal on my Autonomic MMS-5A music server, the app on my iPad is OK, so I use their web clients to configure my "favori... | |
| PS Audio unveils their PS Audio Directstream DAC I've enjoyed my new DirectStream DAC now for about a month, and my jaw still drops with all the detail I now know I was missing. This DAC is just plain awesome!I received the latest firmware with the DAC. PS Audio seems to go thru firmware updates... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective I've spent about the last month enjoying my new PS Audio DirectStream DAC, mostly listening to 44.1k/16bit AIFF files, redbook CDs and some high res (192k/32bit) AIFF files from HD Tracks and my jaw still drops at all the detail I've been missing. | |
| The best CD Player for the money About four years ago I upgraded to the NAD Masters series components and was quite surprised at how the M5 SACD player made my regular "Redbook" CDs sound better, later learning something about the differences in DACs.Last year I got on to Audiogo... |