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| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? Cd's are an object lesson of respecting scientists dealing intelligently with objective reality, rather the narrative folks speculating that other formats and sampling rates must sound better. Mathematically, Redbook is solid, revealing its glory... | |
| Hearing is believing?........power cables....... I could hear a difference after installing each of four tweaks: cleaning connections, new power cord, new receptacle, new fuses. This leads me to think it's possible that I hear a difference because I'm listening for a difference. It's not that ... | |
| Best Class A Amp under $2,000 used? Regarding amps mentioned, I tried Pass Aleph 0`s with Martin Logan Quests and they did not drive them well. The Class'e CA-300 did fine, but not strictly class A. | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? Impedance mismatch aside, a preamp seems useful for the person who is after the most most pleasing or engaging sound, whereas the straight to amp is usually the best path if the goal is to objectively reduce distortion as low as possible as the gr... | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection I bought a used HP I5 laptop for $300 and use JRiver to rip to FLAC. Couldn't be happier. I can rip a CD while listening to a previously ripped CD with no sound degradation. I play the ripped CDs out of memory. There are good tutorials online for... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I only meant that when a consumer technology is going thru its vibrant growth phase, the accelerated pace of development and innovation is accompanied with accelerated depreciation curves as consumers want to ride the front of the wave. Ii really ... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Guido: Thanks I stand corrected. I guess I'm thinking short digital samples of the incoming signal related to switching rate, much like CD sampling or digitizing a photo....and must be wrong. But I still wouldn't buy because I think this era of ... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings All things digital carry a sense of instant obsolescence once the next version is announced. I wouldn't buy a digital amp because I think it would be a poor boat anchor (too light) in a few years. There are many old "analog" amps, speakers, and ... | |
| Best standalone music server? I worked in computer hardware/software interfaces for most of my career and I think a good laptop, Windows or Apple, with JRiver set up correctly, feeding a USB DAC, is neither a bottleneck nor a compromise as a digital source, and should be super... | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take IMHO, linestage and wire designers are more chefs serving up tastes than engineers solving problems. It can be argued that there is really no problem to be solved with braided quality copper wire or a good signal attenuator (ignoring the digital ... | |
| Dennis Had Inspire Fire-Bottle SET amp review Whitestix,How do you like the Don Sachs kt88 Amp?Thanks | |
| Magnepans I have the Avatar you have, and I once had Magnepan Mg2a's. First, old Maggie's can have a problem with the glue deteriorating, and it's not always obvious to the listener. Second, I wouldn't think this is a good match. Maggie's seem to need a ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I can't recall exactly what my question was (slow/fast, I think), but the reply from the very respected amp company said they recommended a higher value in after-market fuses. I didn't ask why, but they could be saying that a little more toleranc... | |
| Tube Power Amp Suggestions Bigdish,I'm pretty much on the same search. I currently have an el34 integrated that I like better in ultralinear than triode, and my speakers are fairly custom and around 91db efficient. I think I mainly needed the extra power of ultralinear. ... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations @ocinn, I haven't tried the Vh. I was thinking of buying a new tube amp and decided to first try tweaking everything from cables, to contacts, to fuses, to outlets. I was intrigued by the Stagers construction, cost, and reviews, so i tried them.... |