grannyring
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| any members in Montana “Missoula is not your typical Montana town. ” Curious what this means? Thanks | |
| AXPONA 2025 April 11-13 Schaumburg, IL I will be attending with my wife. We always have fun there. | |
| I feel for you Agree 100% and have built cables, tube amplifiers and modified most everything I have have ever owned in audio. Learned a great deal and had fun doing it. | |
| Integrated amp with preamp tubes Circle Labs A200 is a great tube front end with SS output hybrid integrated amp. Wonderful tonal purity! This is one to consider if comfortable with a smaller company located in Poland. John Tucker of eXemplar Audio also makes a great sounding hy... | |
| Sound room humidity Wow 55% seems high folks? I guess it depends on where one lives. | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" One last point. Many of these acoustic companies will offer to study your room and come up with 2 or 3 price options. I notice these plans all but wallpaper walls and ceiling with a great number of panels. I question this approach. Start slow and ... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" @onhwy61 your post is certainly true and reasonable. My experience mirrors what you stated. I have had massively to minimally treated rooms throughout the decades. I managed to get all the systems to sound very engaging and enjoyable. Natural wool... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @steakster is 110% right. That Audio Horizons preamp is going to be a best buy for sound quality based on your budget. I owned one much like that one as well as many other tube preamps with retail prices up to $12,0000. The AH is the best of the b... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? All gear has compromises including separates. I think making an assumption that separates always sound better is flawed today. When comparing separates to integrated amps today the sound quality differences will come down to design and execution, ... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? Another thought on design and options for sonic purity. My integrated only has one input direct wired to the tube stage. Bypassed the selector circuit as I only need one input for my dac. This is another step that can deliver sonic benefits. Again... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? A good hybrid integrated amp can have a nice active tube line stage. Mine happens to have one employing a nice separate power supply and tranny for the preamp section. Very little sacrifice and in some cases none! It depends on the design of the i... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? I have been a huge preamp user/buyer/seller over the years. I love a great tube preamp having owned at least 15 or so over the years. I have also built several very good tube preamps over the years. Today’s hybrid integrated amps are so good that ... | |
| Check This Out! @facten You have an outstanding Neodio dac/cd player. If you mostly spin CDs it is certainly a plus to have a great transport and dac built into the same piece. No need for an extra power cord and digital cable. Not sure how much streaming you ... | |
| Check This Out! @facten The Tron really sounded good my system and we enjoyed it for a couple of years. Bottom line is the Galle is a very special piece that based on my listening experience transcends what I thought was possible from a dac. It delivers in spades... | |
| Check This Out! Agreed! I will just move forward without a switch. I had an opportunity to listen the Cinnamon Audio Galle streamer over the last two days in my rig. I currently own an Innuos Pulsar which is really fantastic. It turns out both are actually priced... |