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| Plinius amp repair in Michigan My black SA100 MKIII amplifier was fully rebuilt and upgraded with the Ultimate Upgrade option by Ralph Abramo, Plinius Repairs. This Ultimate Upgrade included the standard rebuild which includes: 1) New audiophile electrolytic capacitors; 2) Low... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? Purchased B&W (Bowers & Wilkins) 802 Nautilus in 2000. Because I was downsizing and thinking they were ill fitting the new abode, I sold in 2015. What a ludicrous mistake. Tried out 803 Nautilus and 804 Nautilus to fit the new room, and... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max I recommend Plinius solid state 200 watt amps, e.g., SA-100, mk3, SA-102 or SA-103. These amps can play both class A and Class A/B. Class A the amp plays hotter, which is not unusual for class A. Class A sound is simply a class above A/B. 30 r... | |
| Which Has Best Sound Quality -- CD vs. Tidal vs. FLAC Uploaded From Burned CD I started this thread back in April 2019. I would like to say as of June 2, 2021 I have achieved more clarity, but that is not the case. My recent reassessment follows: The sound quality varied based on music content and based on comparing CD v... | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? My recollection is that the loudness button simply added an enhanced bass response. Is my 20 to 30 year old recollection in error? | |
| Looking for best streamer without DAC under $3500 My equipment: Intel NUC Mini 7i5BNH i5-7260U DDR NUC7i5BNH in the place of a Roon Nucleus that I used to use. My purpose: Using Roon to stream Tidal and mostly to explore for new music. My accompanying DAC a tubed Cary Audio 200ts. With this D... | |
| Which Has Best Sound Quality -- CD vs. Tidal vs. FLAC Uploaded From Burned CD Just because there is system by system variance, does not mean that taking a poll on this issue would not have any validity. It is very simple, using all your components exactly the same way, a/b compare Tidal CD quality versus your own uploaded ... | |
| Which Has Best Sound Quality -- CD vs. Tidal vs. FLAC Uploaded From Burned CD Cary Audio 200ts -- quite nice with a tube option. Since I was using the same DAC for both my uploaded FLAC versions of various albums and the same albums that loaded directly from the Tidal server, I think this eliminates the DAC as the variable... | |
| New or Old CD Player? My suggestion is to get a Cary Audio CD303/300 192kHz/24 bit HDCD player. It plays redbook CDs very well. List priced at $4500 circa 2004-2008, you can find a used one for between $1K and 1.5K. It is versatile, allows for different flavors with... | |
| Kimber Select 3033 versus 3035 and 3038 It is a little confusing from the above discussion of the posters as to whether the Kimber Select KS-3033s are silver or copper? One poster said silver, while another poster stated the 3033s had "warmth" compared to other Kimber Select speaker cab... | |
| Repair of Cayin HA-2 tube headphone amp Steve the Cayin USA distributor is too busy.Does anybody else have any other suggestions for repair?Thx. | |
| Repair of Cayin HA-2 tube headphone amp Thanks for all your responses.Steve may be able to fit my repair in his schedule but maybe not. If for some reason, he is not available, any other ideas who has the expertise to do the repair?As to the question about tubes, it is not a tube issue,... | |
| Review: Eastern Electric Minimax DAC DA converter To Mr. Altman:I was wondering if the Touch you were using in comparison to the Cary CD player was modded in any form or fashion or was the sound improvement solely related to the Minimax DAC. Thanks for the clarification. |