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| Anybody else waiting for GaN and Purify to have a baby? jjss49Very good review of the Class-D Audio USA amps.If know how to mount these into a box that's basically it, these "should" for $940 be much better as they are GaN made by Gan!!!And they have in them a dac, preamp, volume, and dsp with "Audio... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread FACT: Audiophile Fuses Matter!!! https://www.mcru.co.uk/audiophile-fuses-what/😂😂😂😂And you guys believe what this half baked website says, The Don probably made it.😂😂😂😂😂😂 A fuse:1: two end caps2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end cap... | |
| Revel Performa F228 Be speaker... thoughts? troidelover1499 OP F228 Be Look to be a speaker that’s not too hard an impedance load in the bass, will even suit Class-D, and at 90db many >100w 8ohm tube amps with 4ohm taps, which will half to 50w when using those 4ohm taps.https://www.ste... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread It's fact, and your fiction | |
| How long does Class A have? The A1 was a very poor design of heat sink, more like a muddy shoe wiper grid. It bent badly on hot days, finned heatsinks need to be vertical not flat.Look at the heat buckle starting in this one, lifting at both endshttps://specialistdivision.fi... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread A fuse:1: two end caps2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).To those "non technical" members that are interested, do not listen to fusers, listen to the technicians of this industry tha... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread                    This is just a bump fest for "snake oil" A fuse:1: two end caps2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).To those "non technical" members that are inte... | |
| Rank the top reference DACs you've heard  I would then add in the Denafrips Terminator Plus. +1Also Holo Spring and May as well as MSB all disctrete R2R dacsCheers George | |
| Going monoblock? rapet I have a McIntosh MC252 that can be bridged to mono at 500 Watts. What am I going to gain in term of sound going from a single MC252 stereo to two MC252 mono? Many more watts, but that’s it! Everything else measurement wise takes a hit that... | |
| Looking fo krell 450 mcx monos tunawishing Looking fo krell 450 mcx monos They have an (engine room the size of the Titanic, float about as good too).Seriously though, these are an end game amp, if you don’t mind the power bill. Class A- plateau biasing (auto slides up and down... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend This almost says it all, warmer presentation, no sibilance on Stings voice (which "can" tear you a new one), yet top level sparkle from piano. Save for no mention of bass slam and tightness? Georgehifi - Tons of bass slam. Overall relatively tigh... | |
| Please Suggest An Electronic Crossover mitch4t I just about listened to them all tube SS (analog) even a Deqx (digital domain, sterile is the word that come to mind).The very best I found was the newer discrete SS Nelson Pass "First Watt B4" active analog xover only a few were made, th... | |
| Anybody else waiting for GaN and Purify to have a baby? have ears that to some degree have been conditioned to tube-borne 2nd order harmonic distortion, which gives a special sense of warmth, fleshiness and body to the music... super clean solid state, even the really top stuff that is not hampered by ... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend This is the ladder DAC of the four and it sounded very, very good. This had the least amount of sparkle and the warmest presentation of the four. If you like a warmer presentation or you are struggling with brightness or glare in a system, this is... | |
| GaN Class-D feature packed amplifier from GaN USA themselves limited supply!!! Doesn't matter now, as Gan are out of stock of these now for 36 weeks.I'll re-introduce then. |