fsonicsmith
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| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I suggest looking at it from a slightly different perspective-which some of you are already doing; where do the diminishing returns kick in more abruptly. I also am disregarding base-level set ups intentionally (base level skews the analsis). So... | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. Personally I feed this need by building. Whether it is speakers or cables, I find it more satisfying to make something than buying something. I encourage all audiophiles to at least once in their hobby lifetime to build at least 1 speaker kit... | |
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable The converse of this oft-experienced scenario is lusting after "this year's model". 9.9 times out of 10, "this year's model" will become the old has-been you can not believe you once lusted over. Krell was once CH Precision. CH Precision will beco... | |
| Speaker cables recomendation for Luxman L509X / Dynaudio Contour 30i I was going to chime in with Auditorium23 and see that jond beat me to it. They are amazing. I have five amps and three sets of loudspeakers and they excel with every combination. They come standard with bananas and are very difficult to get with ... | |
| New R2R DAC I have been very careful not to bring up SW1X unless someone else does. The reason is fairly simple-I just don't feel qualified to make qualitative judgments as to competing DAC's at any price level. But I auditioned the SW1X 2 SE with the USB opt... | |
| How important are spikes? Some loudspeakers benefit substantially from spikes. If the manufacturer has a good reputation and has supplied spikes, they should at least be tried. My Spendor D7.2's sound better in my room with the supplied spikes than with Gaia’s. I have hard... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 On a whim I recently switched out my Cardas Clear speaker cables with Auditorium. 23 and switched from the 8 ohm taps to the 16 on my Ref 80 S. The results are quite positive. | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 @wolf_garcia I hesitate to respond at all. There is nothing in your response that calls for one-in fact it seems a bit irrational. Collings guitar? Pricing of audio components sometimes has a black and white border such as when Lexicon took the... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 It's always a good idea to combine overpriced components with each other. 12 grand for a couple of drivers in a box with a veneered front? Count me in! @wolf_garcia Try finding equal sound for less. In addition, all aspects of both ARC gear a... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 I have the 80S with a Ref 6 and the Devore O/93's.You definitely do not need the 160S, no matter how large your room might be. Pentode vs. Triode is personal taste. Triode provides a bit more depth to the midrange, Pentode provides more authority,... | |
| VPI upgrade? I almost never agree with mijostyn but this time I do in part and not in part. He is right, the VPI unipivot arm is a total pain for the average schmo, though my trusted set-up expert Brian Walsh says he can make them sound very good and he has no... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @prof First, to answer your question Friend, it measured very well. Extremely well. I don't normally even read the measurements section as to loudspeakers so I had to go back and read it to answer your question. What most impresses ME is that ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I am not surprised that John Atkinson favorably reviewed them in the new issue of S'Phile. I am surprised that he a) spent three times as much space describing Andrew Jones' design process as he did with listening notes b) completely ignored his m... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @dmader48 I bet we either know each other or know of people in common. I went to tOSU from '78 to '84 for both undergrad and law school. As I bet you know, Scott, the owner and founder of the store started out selling speaker building kits ... | |
| Has anyone kept the 6550 regulator tube past 2K hours in a ARC REF6? carlsbad 1,213 posts 12-31-2022 at 03:41pm I’d say a very low percentage of tube amp users actually log hours. Most tubes are run to failure. I'd say very few ARC Ref 6 run them to failure as the remote to the Ref 6 makes in incredibly... |