georgehifi
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| Jay's Audio transport I did a little research on the subject you were speaking of regarding the Philips CDM4 transport used in the Jay’s Audio transport. Unfortunately that transport is no longer in production. Definately a reason not to blow $2200 on it. Get the $600... | |
| Is Pre-Amp needed A preamp can never make the sound more accurate, it can only degrade This statement is 100% correct. Going direct, has less distortion and colouration, is more transparent and dynamic.An added preamp preamp, if prefered can only add colourations/... | |
| MBL 101 (~1990) - amp suggestions. The non-Evo Antileon even today is a good choice. Yes all model Gryphon's are good.These MBL's are only "tested" at 81db!!!, so amp around 150w or more is needed. But also they have epdr resistance of around 2ohms in the low bass, and need an ... | |
| MBL 101 (~1990) - amp suggestions. inefficient OP MBL 101 (~1990) - amp suggestions. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/mbl-101e-mkii-best-amplifiers/post?postid=1733529#1733529 | |
| Ribbon midrange pros and cons Don't confuse tweeters like Infinity, Amt, ect ect for true ribbon tweeters like on Magneplanars, Apogees ect ect True ribbons are the closest you will get to ESL's, and ESL's are the closest you will get to Plasma. (it's all about mass "diaphragm... | |
| Mbl 101e mkii best amplifiers luk71 What would go and maybe sound even better is Gryphon Antileon Evo stereo or monos, which has front panel Class-A adjustment while listening to fine tune the amount of smoothness you want to inject. And it may drive the 101e’s even better.... | |
| Used PreAmp around 1000 b_mueller OP Used PreAmp around 1000 +1 gazillion for a new Schiit Freya, no glitz, but it's got what it takes under the hood to do real damage to $$$K preamps.Cheers George | |
| Non-Oversampling (NOS) vs, You just need to listen to Redbook on a "good" R2R dac/cdp that you switch from NOS to OS while listening on the fly, like you can with the Holo Spring. NOS is far more enjoyable, it has more body to the mids, it seems to extend both the bass and ... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition hifidream Was my thinking totally off? Yes Steve, the AHB2 has one power supply for both channels. By having one amp playing one speaker, one channel for highs and the other for lows, then the total power supply’s stored energy (joules) of that... | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home stuartk OP I’m unwilling to gamble on spending 3-4K to upgrade in that direction. I can’t see a way to go that’s more practical than hanging on to what I’ve got until the Jolida gives up the ghost Ah, you have the Jolida, this is a TNT Audio re... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition hifidream While I don’t have an issue with clipping. Since I bought two at the same time they have consecutive serial numbers and would share the same part lots. They should sound identical. . . As you said it’s free to try, and it makes logical... | |
| Magnepan Mods Magnepan Mods Often thought to myself, if I ever came across another pair of Maggie Tympanies cheap, I would like to do a mod on them and change the old Ferrite bar magnets for some new Neodymium bar magnets now that they are not too expensive... | |
| The new Schiit Aegir Amplifier now shipping You get what you pay for my friends And with Schiit it’s all on the inside, as your not paying 8 x more for a glitzy CNC'd chassis with Cadillac like shine, that does absolutely nothing for the sound.https://c.wallhere.com/photos/f3/93/classic_ca... | |
| Non-Oversampling (NOS) vs, Depends, converting redbook the 2R2 Multibit Holo Spring dac, sounds far better on NOS than it does with OS, and you find that goes for most R2R Multibit dacs that can do it. I'm not into Delta Sigma dacs "trying" to redbook so I won't comment on ... | |
| The new Schiit Aegir Amplifier now shipping Bet this is the Vidar with lower rail volts and higher Class-A bias, maybe that why there's no internal shots of it, like the Vidar has???Not that it's bad, as there are plenty of speakers that would rather have the Aegir's 20 of Class-A and no B... |