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| Schiit Saga+...What’s the point of the tube? Schiit Saga+...What’s the point of the tube?Just wondering about this. I bought one used because I wanted a passive preamp with 0 gain and remote control. It functions fine and doesn’t seem to color the sound of my inputs at all whether I have it ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Last night, "nostalgia night" from little school days, but with a couple of Scotch and sodas in me this time round, dreaming of my first crush, my music teacher, a 6ft tall blonde Russian in a mini skirt with white vinyl knee high boots, she had l... | |
| Best skiinny floorstanders cdc2 These are killers from Germany, amazing mids/highs and bass, I have a "similar" pair on my second system, and they don’t let me down, and my main system has always been Martin Logan esl Monoliths with Neolith panels and before that Accusat... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? zeusodin The LSA gives you the feeling that you are listening to the voice of God. The sound is so enjoyable so ethereal. The LSA simply gets out of the way of the music and passes on exactly what is on the recording. Thanks for the great L... | |
| High quality equalizers ptss OP Balanced or SE 6 band SchiiT Loki Max soon?? with remote?? as mward mentioned a while back.(click on the pic for close up)https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business6/uploads/headphones/original/3X/e/5/e51213373de6f0ff3e1c993a...Cheers George | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? Think I will spend some daily time listening to Pandora through the app on my smart TV. A good idea to discover new artists and music. Have that as a handy guide to buy new CDs or LPs. Good way to look at it, use the internet services as a sampler... | |
| Anyone Recently Change to Class D power? Good point, for others that may not have seen it yet.The soon to be launched GaN Technology, Technics SU-R1000 Class-D Integrated, that has everything, including the kitchen sink.https://www.technics.com/us/products/reference-class/integrated-ampl... | |
| Isolation for Granite Surface Plate oldskoolmarkTry a "half inflated" kids scooter innertube under them, complete (air) isolation worked wonders for me back in the T/T days and now with CD transport also. Pick your size. (Tom Gillett aka: Sam Tellig of Stereophile put me on to this ... | |
| Are there any preamps that can work with 2 amps and a sub woofer? Just get 4 of these and plug to together to give 3 outputs, and tryit you won’t hurt anything, don’t do it if your preamp is a tube it'll run for the hills.https://www.wish.com/product/5b0d6b80c0d6f4651b819647?hide_login_modal=true&from_ad=goo... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? Class A does NOT sound better (as the thread starter claimed).He doesn’t mean different manufacturer amps. The same amp/s will sound better without any xover distortion, and the way to get it is with more Class-A bias if all else can take the extr... | |
| REL subs with Acoustat 1+1s? The 1+1 go down to around 30-40hz -3db, to get the best dynamic swing and kick out of them you should limit them to >120Hz. Use cheap ready made passive high pass xover to do it with as I showed in my first post.This will get them loud without... | |
| Hoping for a recommendation for stereo amp around $1500 or less ($2k max) brandini Hoping for a recommendation for stereo amp around $1500 or less ($2k max) Ascend acoustics towers with RAAL ribbons Look for a used pair of Belcanto Ref 600 monblock, I heard them on a similar speaker with that Raal ribbon and was very t... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? Mirage M-1si speakers, probably like 85 db. Nice speaker BTW.M1’s are nowhere near as bad a load as the Legacy’s abovehttps://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/99M1SIFIG1.jpgStereophile: The Mirage M-1si’s impedance curve in fig.1 indicat... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? I am sure George and some others could offer an explanation of what happened beyond just formal power ratings. Here we go, watch out for the flame throwers !!Stereophile: Legacy Focus Not only are there two minima in the bass of less than 2 ohms, ... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? ducati1098rr22 postsWow the viper is drawn to another thread.For a 22 post member who stalks, your way too uncool/and technically inept to associate your self with Ducati, better suited to mo-ped. Stick to what you believe in, in those little blac... |