fredcdobbs
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| parasound 200 pre or zpre3 or what other pre for 2 channel I just auditioned the Parasound Classic 200 Preamp. The good news is it has fantastic features. Treble, bass, subs adjustable from your listening position along with the usual volume and balance. You an see the bars from eight feet away easily. Du... | |
| Preamp under $2,000. Check reviews on the Schiit Audio Freyda. Supposed to be excellent, Under a grand tube hybrid. I think they are enjoying a surge in sales and there is a wait on products. I am waiting for my Raganok integrated. My Sciit has been backed up several ... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? A lot of his music I don't care for but some nice ones. This cut is fun.Adam Holzman, from his Manifesto album.Try Jumping' Jupiter. | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Starting and running an audiophile cable company for twenty years. | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: Your wife wants to go to a restaurant where they prepare the food in front of you.You take her to Subway. You might be an audiophile. | |
| Yamaha A-S801 for Dynaudio Evoke 20 Update. I hooked the Oppo 93 analog outs into my 801.I also used a digital coax to hook the digital out from the 93 into the digital input on the 801. AB testing via the remote ensued.The only cable I had was a cheap Blue Jeans Coax. It wasn't cut... | |
| Up From Oppo? Rejection, What's new? heh.I bought a Denifrips Ares II and a couple Coax cables so I'll be hooking it up to the digital out from the 93 to the ares and plugging the analog outs into my Yamaha S801 amp. I'll have the analog out from the 93 plugged... | |
| Yamaha A-S801 for Dynaudio Evoke 20 Unfortunately, the Yamaha sub output is set at around 80 at the factory with no adjustability. The 801 doesn't have preouts so you can't use the variable crossovers in the self powered Subs. Seems to work fine for me. I change speakers and cables ... | |
| Yamaha A-S801 for Dynaudio Evoke 20 You’re welcome. Just a couple more observations. Minor issues. The knobs are plastic. I’d have preferred metal. On the good side it has two music modes like "pure settings" that you can kick in with the remote. Handy for fine tuning what’s playing... | |
| Yamaha A-S801 for Dynaudio Evoke 20 Late to the ball here but I thought I’d chip in. I have been listening to my S801 for a couple months and have grown very fond of it. Great sound, I like the silver retro look and it is just very consistently pleasing. I’ve compared it to the Deno... | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: If you have a $25,000 audio system and drive a 20 year old POS Honda, you might be an audiophile. | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: If you send $10,000 on audio gear and take your wife out to McDonalds for dinner, you might be an audiophile. | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: If your vinyl collection catches on fire and burns for three days like a junk yard fire, you might be an audiophile. | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: When you can spend so much time talking about audio minutia that your friends want to put their brains on the wall. | |
| Hard of Hearing Audiophile. I was told that one of the reasons not to wait too long to get hearing aids is that if your brain doesn't get the stimulation from hearing certain sounds, it will forget what they sound like. I don't know if this comes back with amplified hearing ... |