fredapplegate
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| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! "The MCD85 can play store bought SACDs and CDs as well as music from homemade CD or DVD Data Discs." Store bought SACDs! The fancy kind. I guess it won't play the ones you buy online. That's a real limitation. | |
| No God No! Say it Ain’t So! boxcarman McIntosh has been available at Best Buy (Magnolia) for many years. Remember when McIntosh was sold to Clarion? It got better. Wait and see. My friend Hal has a C22, Mc275, Sonus Fabers and a Linn LP12. Fantastic. | |
| Music server recommendations needed. I've ripped 2864 cds (according to foobar) and it took a really long time. A really, really long time. Years. If you're heavy into classical, you do a lot of editing. I keep SACDs separate and play them with a Sony BluRay (UBP-X1100ES) player ove... | |
| Check This Out! Lots of pictures of smelting. A metaphor for removing impurities, perhaps? | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! I'd suggest Schiit Tyr. I have Aegirs as monoblocks and like them very much. (I've heard the Tyr, but haven't used it in my system.) | |
| Toe in is crucial Great post. Absolutely true. I moved my speakers every week for over a year until my wife was certain I was quite mad, but at this point it does remind me of listening to music, which is all I ask. Courage! Experiment! Play! Enjoy! If I can do it... | |
| The Audiophile Song - Who Can Relate? Ow. Need those boxes... | |
| Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp All good choices! I have 2 nodes and the software can't be beat. That being said, I switched my whole front end to a Moon 390, which incorporates a streamer and I have been very happy. I now mostly listen to my NAS or lps. Moon makes great produ... | |
| Cool running, low powered power amp Consider the Schiit Aegir. No, really. I just swapped a pair of Aegirs for an ARC VT100MkIII and they are no joke. You'd probably only need one. And the resale on Schiit is so good... I mean, why not? It's less than you spent on your cartridge, ... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? @yyzsantabarbara I've read the review in Absolute Sound. And from the specifications tab in the link you sent, i see that the front firing tweeter, midrange and mid bass drivers are made of the same material. Vandersteen insists that this is ver... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Yyzsantabarbara: "No one does that with cones." Vandersteen does. | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can You have a nice system with very high quality parts. Congratulations! Some good advice so far, and no one but you can know what is going to make a difference, but as a start: Try eliminating the power conditioner entirely. You may not need it, a... | |
| A listening test of two power amps What a great post! Thoughtful and challenging and, wow! thorough. And you're absolutely right about naming the amps! That would just trigger the haters to... well, hate. "How can a $30 op-amp sound better than a 200lb amp with a 1/4" front panel?... | |
| The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change It's fun to mix and match and do all the connections... You don't have a problem. You have a hobby. Enjoy! | |
| Stolen property Some thoughts: If they don't have the box that's a worry, but not a deal breaker. Ask about associated equipment, cables etc, and how long they've owned them and how much they paid for them. Know who you are dealing with: email, phone number, phy... |