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| It happened again tonight oregonpapa -wait till you try tidal....not even mqa just cd quality. it’s free for the first month .what can you loose besides compression and harshness? another way is playing cd quality or better files from a pc using audirvana. compare any of... | |
| Better amp or better tubes? since someone suggested it let me make it clear: n e v e r buy nos tubes thinking to keep them as spares if they won’t sound good. if they don’t sound good you picked the wrong tubes,it takes 20 seconds to tell on a set you live with. send them ba... | |
| Better amp or better tubes? treat a tube like any audio component. you must know where you are tone wise and where do you want to go from there. more bass and warmth? more highs? maybe you need a bit more output so higher gain power tubes can do the trick. any brand and mode... | |
| Network Transport vs. CD Transport The advantage of a dedicated streamer is that they are specifically optimized for playing music. The disadvantage is that most of them (besides companies like allo) are 10 times overpriced. watch the ocd hifi video on youtube. it's like 4.5k for... | |
| Network Transport vs. CD Transport you can get decent results these days using a pc as long as you stream tidal mqa or other hi res files or running programs like audirvana .you already have a very nice dac don't change it. you can easily get better results with the ifi ipower... | |
| Power Amplifier Longevity iv'e bought a used 1990's arcam delta power amp, sounds great and looks mint .if i h e a r a bad sound than i might worry about caps. it has no moving parts and if it's a quality piece usually it's been well taken care of,if not than after ... | |
| So What Is Real? whoever speaks against expensive cables should try some 1k cables from a big brand like audioquest ,cardas,kimber ,mit(rca ,usb ,speakers ,power cords whatever) just to make sure he is not some hyped nagging internet ghost from the past. | |
| Which amp would you go with arcam sounds more real and effortless with great bass and depth. | |
| As good as it gets after 400 hours everything in the audio chain is fully broken in. the 5-10% won't change your general impression of the amp but it always sounds a little better and less stiff after burn in.you should swap to nos tubes which sounds much better tha... | |
| Smooth sounding integrated second hand arcam delta 290, 300$ 100wpc | |
| confused and don't know what to do 1)arcam2)parasound3)anthemi have 2 pairs of b&w’s: 686( 2005 bookshelves)and dm 580 (90’s floorstanding) and tried them at home with arcam delta 60 integrated ,arcam delta 120 power amp (with some ss and tube preamps),nad c352 (given as a pre... | |
| Higher End DACs if you can afford dcs just go for it. there are other good brands(mbs, lampizator,chord) especially in that price range but none has the dcs consistent top position in the audiophile world. it’s always been the safest bet for big money dac’s .make... | |
| New tube preamp and they call this an audiophile forum...Sounds like stock 12au7's to me. swap the tubes to nos. any amperex or simens 1950-1970 will sound amazing compared to stock (probably russian genalex).ge's are nice as well from the same era but my favouri... | |
| Upgrading System...Help/opinions on Parasound and others? forget about that nad it's for tourists. | |
| Streaming + DAC questions. Please help this noob! after investing so much for a proper system it will be foolish not to invest in the source. no reason to listen to anything below cd quality we are in 2019! most people had better sound in 1992 with cd players than now with spotify and youtube. t... |