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| Hybrid amplifiers Ss/tube, any good? What is your system? Very helpful in understanding where you are coming from. As you know, there is a place to put photos and ID your conponents. That would really help to frame the discussion. | |
| Atma-Sphere MA 2s for Dummies (by a dummy) Thank you very much for your post. Really interesting. I love Sound Lab speakers. Powering them can be challenging. My hat off to you and Ralph for pushing the cutting edge. You have a beautiful system, it must sound incredible. Since my system h... | |
| High end speakers at low volume High efficiency does not equal sounds good at low volumes. Tone controls definitely not part of the equation. You want as pure and high quality signal as possible to excellent sounding speakers. The lower the noise floor of the system the less vol... | |
| Music Server Advice @fastfreight Comparisons between the Grimm and Aurender in my system were Roon for Grimm and Conductor for the Aurrender. I doubt that has a significant sound effect. My experience is that it is the hardware that matters. Also, I used to own ... | |
| Passive preamp I would do more research. If you are looking for very high quality sound, then you will find it with a very high quality active preamp. The idea that a passive preamp will interfer less sound great in theory, but typically that is as far as it goe... | |
| High end speakers at low volume I would recommend looking at stand mounted speakers. Like the Sonus Faber Electra Amator 3. They are gorgeous… there are a number of different models that fit your bill… and all beautiful. Being stand mounted they will not be as imposing looki... | |
| Probably a dumb question 😀👍 | |
| USB Reclocker A good streamer cashes the file, isolates electrically and vibration, and provides an enormously low noise floor in the output. I have owned many streamers… and choose them based on their sound quality not the technology employed. I fiddled with t... | |
| Probably a dumb question Echo Audio. | |
| Music Server Advice I had a Grimm in my system a couple weeks ago. While it is a good sounding unit it was not competitive with mid and upper tier Aurrender. I thought the Grimm had a very good midrange but came up short on the upper end… not being as refined and had... | |
| Returns I’m afraid $60 would not be making money for Crutchfield. They have to have someone process your return, refund your money, receiving processes the physical return, inspects it, it, someone puts it into inventory, then it must be advertise an open... | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Reviewing this string it dawned on me, if I was to do over from scratch I would actively find a Shindo system and see if that would inspire my choice of direction. I have never heard one, but always have wanted to. | |
| How do I know if my systems any good? Is your system engaging and satisfying? I am retired and listen about three hours a day and have to tear myself away each night. My system is the result of 50 years of research, effort, and investment. A generality. Regardless of how good your... | |
| What is "immersiveness" in audio experience ? I understand what you are going for here. From my experience I would go at it from a different direction. To me poor rhythm and pace is the major factor that prevents immersion. You can have incredibly holography without immersion. So, for me, the... | |
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