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| To all that has a Theta Miles CD player This laser is getting unobtainable, get a new one quick before they disappearIt uses the PEA1343 laser, and if your name is anything to go by, you should be able to swap it out, they are not that hard for the mechanically mindedhttps://www.ebay.... | |
| Top notch integrated vs DAC direct into stereo amp Well Gryphon and Audionet are two pretty different presentations.Ghyphon is very organic, meaty, physical bass, beautiful deph and yet detailed and fast.Audionet is very high detail retrieval, very low noise floor, huge soundtage, ultra fast and v... | |
| Top notch integrated vs DAC direct into stereo amp My take is the simplest path is best. Correct, as most dac’s today (not tube output ones) have output stages the equal and maybe even better than many active preamps are. So if you have a dac that has a volume control use it direct into your powe... | |
| Integrated Amp (Gryphon, T+A, etc) or DAC + Stereo Amp for B&W 802d3 Manufacturers also often report the output power into 8 ohms low so that the output power spec for their amp doubles down into 4 ohms.So so true! i’ve said it many times. Especially with Class-D’s and or complimentary Mosfets.Many manufacturers pu... | |
| How would you power Wilson Audio Sasha or Alexia II? robert1976 How would you power Wilson Audio Sasha or Alexia II?Which pre and power amps should I audition to find a match made in heaven? Total budget for pre and power amp(s) is $50-60k. If you have that kind of budget, the VERY best for these... | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k keithr Best tube preamplifier for under $15k The best preamp will be the one that sounds the closest to a piece of wire.Guess what? that's what direct source to power amp does, (if your source has a volume control).If not then passive pre is... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp Gents, how the hell does adding damping rings change the sound of a tube. Get two 6550’s one GE NOS green label and one Chinese junker, flick each and listen to the Chinese one ring like crystal and the GE just go thud. That’s the reason.It’s all... | |
| Integrated Amp (Gryphon, T+A, etc) or DAC + Stereo Amp for B&W 802d3 fan118 OP 👍 For getting the Gryphon Essence, it will serve you and and any future speakers you get for a long time to come.Also good work doing the ground work before buying, too many just grab things mentioned here to get by "good doers" witho... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp insearchofprat OP Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp First weed out any mircophonic tubes.Do this by turning up the volume to where it sits normally for loud listening, get someone to gently flick each tube with his finger nail while you... | |
| Will this amp trick work for increasing bass performance? robert1976 OP Using this tone controller means I have to go RCA all the way right?Yes you will have to do that.Would changing from XLR to RCA make any difference? Only benefit for xlr if the interconnects are very long >10mts xlr then helps ... | |
| Big source improvement using CD player I have a Cambridge CXUHD Not quite as good as the CXC for spinning CD's.As the CXC has a dedicated linear power supply, and dedicated CD drive, with it's "legendary" ‘S3’ servo design. (whatever that is). Where the CXUHD uses a SMP (switch mod... | |
| Which R2R DAC UP TO 1K: ORGANIC, FULL-BODIED, DEEP SOUNDSTAGE Pretty much all conventional Dacs these days are delta sigma. These designs used to be very popular in the early to mid 90s but gradually disappeared into obscurity.DS (Delta Sigma/1bit/bitstream) never disappeared, but it did replaced the last ... | |
| Will this amp trick work for increasing bass performance? robert1976 OP One of these could work wonders for you, they are very transparent and have great adjustablity of ranges. for just $149And you can send it back after 14 days of trial. https://www.schiit.com/products/loki Here’s a graph on what it ca... | |
| Will this amp trick work for increasing bass performance? robert1976 OP Which two power amps would you consider? Power amp budget is about $30K. Was told Focals like power, so >250W for bass amp seems the minimum. Pre amp will likely be Pass Labs XP-32.Maybe Pass Labs X250.8 + X150.8 or X250.8 + XA60.... | |
| Recommendations for electronic crossover. And I thought listening Na, you already proved you can’t do that with this statement. Every one of us preferred the sound of the bridged configuration, with some describing the sound as now being "more hifi" The "can’t see the forest for the tree... |