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| Is my Cal Audio Sigma II too old? I so wish someone offered a reasonably priced basic tube preamp with nice tone controls. Again Schiit's your schiit. While you get the Bitfrost tryout the Loki some here say it's a very good tone control: http://www.schiit.com/products/loki An... | |
| Help me please!!! Evolution Acoustics MM3 To accurately recommend an amp for these beasts.It would be nice if there was an impedance vs -phase angle graph done on these, but there's none yet.Cheers George | |
| Amplification for Wilson Audio Sasha on the cheap Have heard Sasha's with ARC Tube Amps and they sounded very nice indeed. Like I said before: "Sure a tube will work and mostly sound good, but the best will not be extracted from the Sasha's in the bass."Cheers George | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison "I ensured the volume control on my amp never changed" it could be a moot point and you may want to forgo the hassle of precise level matching. All dacs have different analogue outputs levels even if it's by a 1/10th of a volt, how can anyo... | |
| Does anyone use hearing aids when listening to your hi-fi audio system? 2psyop If my hearing got to a point of questioning it, I’d be selling the expensive speakers and amp, and getting the best headphones and headphone amp I could get.Cheers George | |
| Is my Cal Audio Sigma II too old? mzm6bb I’m actually thinking the Schitt Bifrost MultiDac Still very good for pcm "redbook cd flac files" if you can’t stretch to the Yaggdrasil. Schiit make very good stuff at great prices, without "glitzing" them up with expensive chassis and c... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? mickstuh beone-audio.com my speakers are Be-One, model: The One. No one has ever heard of them; well, not in the West. I heard them and bought them. I have only ever found one reference online, by a reviewer (an amateur, I think) http://ww... | |
| Amplification for Wilson Audio Sasha on the cheap I have heard the same too, so a decent tube amp can keep the bass right and get the low freq? Stereophile bench test:" On the other hand, the Sasha's plot of impedance magnitude and electrical phase (fig.1) reveals the speaker to be a demandin... | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison @georgehifi Is there a ’cheater’ way to get close enough? : ) No.If you do it by ear, you could be as much as 3db out on level matching.Cheers George | |
| Is my Cal Audio Sigma II too old? The dac chip in the Cal Audio Sigma II is an old Cirrus Logic Delta Sigma, in my opinion not worth hanging on to.If you play pcm "redbook cd flac files" as you said, then you should go with a R2R Multibit type dac, look at the Schiit Yaggdrasil.ht... | |
| Focal Chorus 826W with Rotel RC/RB 1070? hugodataway These speakers, I would think would want something bigger with more current output than the RB-1070 to perform at their best, especially in the bass.Sterophile measured tests on the Focal Chorus 826W "With a minimum magnitude of 2.9 o... | |
| My apologies_Upgrade path from Wilson WattPuppy 7's? Just looked at your other posts, seems you have a McIntosh 275? it is a very good amp with the right speakers! But with the WP7's???? a total mismatch, it's a wonder it hasn't herniated trying to drive the 7's.Read here, same applies to your spe... | |
| My apologies_Upgrade path from Wilson WattPuppy 7's? I forget to mention that I already own Watt Puppy 7 speakers Yes I know, what I’m basically saying is to keep them, just make sure you drive them with an amp that has big current delivery, and is 100w or more to get the very best out of them. Cur... | |
| Amplification for Wilson Audio Sasha on the cheap I currently have a ME850 amp I own 2 of these amps active bi-amped, and I can say one will drive the Sasha’s without even yawning. If you need to sweeten it a little get a tech to bias it up a little more from 8w Class-A to around 12-15w, fan are... | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison david_ten Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison Each dac will have a different gain structure (volume), don’t trust your ears to level match. It must be done with a 1khz sine wave and measure the ac mV (millivolt) at the speaker termin... |