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| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations +1 Stager Silver Solid. Very clean, open sound, but you'll think they're too skinny to pass big fat bass notes. They do. | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? It's very difficult for a small company to set the right retail price by properly balancing inventory, sales volume, distributor terms, and a myriad of internal costs. There are probably as many good, small companies buried in the audio graveyar... | |
| CLASSE - Great amps or highly flawed? I had a McCormack DNA-1 and a Classe CA-300. The McCormack was obviously faster and probably a more open sound, but the CA-300 was more of a stable brute of an amp for some Martin Logans. My son-in-law now has the CA-300. The CA-300 was much bet... | |
| Class D Technology I'll stick with tubes for now, but the Mola Mola/ Vivid G3 Giya system I heard definitely wasn't midfi. | |
| What do audiophiles want from a cable? My guess is that audiophiles see cables as similar to water hoses, and the goal is to increase the flow and remove the constriction. That's at odds with reality, since we're not dealing with electrons flowing into preamps, amps or speakers. But a... | |
| Songs that have stood the test of time. Somewhere Over The Rainbow never gets old, and always compels me to listen. | |
| Used Audio Research Preamp Options I had an LS3 and liked it...liked it better than an Audible Illusion 3a and a Conrad Johnson PV (3?) I compared it with. Nothing romantic on sparkly. It was feeding a McCormack DNA-1 and just sounded solid, full and balanced. But it's the only ... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Thanks, George. You’re forgiven, and I think I’m healed for now. What were those three temptations? Miracle, bread, and power….sounds like a devilish AR Ref 6 (lots of my bread.) Get thee behind me…but geez, it must be wonderful. One day at a... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Wester17, I purchased the Benchmark DAC2 HGC because I wasn't sure if future plans would have it feeding an integrated (current), a preamp, or a power amp, and the HGC could be configured for either. I had that audiophile yen for an exotic large ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Max Planck warned against the mental state of "knowing" that gets us stuck. He noted that constantly striving to understand is the remedy, and observation is important, even if it contradicts theory, and even if total understanding is unreachable... | |
| What is going on? No-one buys good stuff priced right. It seems that elegance and power has gone small and light. So much power in your hand and so many songs on your Pod that big and heavy seems like dinosaurs of old tech. I certainly felt it when I gave my son-in-law my Classe amp. Like giving him ... | |
| High-Resolution Audio: You Can Hear Me Now I've yet to hear any improvement in 96khz FLAC, but I suspect I've only bought up-sampled CD's sold at inflated download prices. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Perhaps what has advanced is the measurement technologies that hold speaker design and performance to a higher standard, but sometimes that disqualifies some wonderful sounding aberrations. | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good A few:Excitable Boy -Warren ZevonBlood on the Tracks - DylanSleeps With Angels - Neil YoungGraceland - Paul SimonCourt & Spark - Joni MitchellTrilogy - Emerson, Lake & PalmerStand Up -Jethro Tull | |
| What's going on with the audio market? Back in the day, there was a palpable sense of the art advancing by the month, and we waited like junkies for the next issue of Absolute Sound to inform us of the next advance. Many of those advances were available to the young and the working cl... |