hbarrel
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| Integrated amp under $5k Not often seen for sale… a Musical Fidelity Ñu-Vista 600 is on audio mart. 200 wpc | |
| AUDIO SHOWS! WHAT would you like to see more of there. Better brands, hours etc? Trade shows are an expensive endeavor. Big or small company no different. The small fish need to partner up to mitigate costs. But the expense of travel, rooms, food, entertainment, especially in the big city is no trifling amount. Setup. Teardow... | |
| Recommend a good router/modem combo please My Nighthawk has worked flawlessly for a couple years. I put Bitdefender on it (sans the VPN) and other than blocking an attack by my trail camera (my doing) the Bitdefender runs without issue. A speed test shows I get better than advertised uplo... | |
| Help with possible integrated amp change for better match with my speakers. @gakman ha ha the only thing that was time consuming was copy and pasting your question into the A.I. ChatGPT. And the subsequent copy and pasting of the A.I.’s answer into this forum. | |
| Tom Martin's Listening Room Reflective surfaces sure are minimized. 75% of the ceiling has acoustic panels? | |
| Upgrade to sound quality of Dynaudio Heritage speakers @jmascian my amp pushes 80 pounds. It sits on a piece of 2” thick sandstone, sitting on the floor, picked up from local purveyor of cut stone to builders and landscapers. However that is about to change. 1.5” x 22” x 36” oak butchers blocks with ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Yello Toy | |
| Help with possible integrated amp change for better match with my speakers. A.I. is extremely intriguing. At least to me. The available information will only grow over time. Don’t be afraid to call B.S. I have found the algorithm to not always be correct. The Focal Utopia Be (Beryllium) speakers—such as the Utopia M... | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? All the matters in the end is how the amp sounds in our system. | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? In two weeks I should have a better understanding of GaN Fet amps. Will be using Class D Audio’s mono blocks paired with a Benchmark LA4 preamp. Linear Tube Audio DAC fed by a Shanling ET-3 all into some Spendor D9’s. My streaming computer is o... | |
| Need Recommendation for Coffee Shop The Japanese Kissa venues seem to work. Jazz seems to be the driving force https://www.stereophile.com/content/brilliant-corners-23-japanese-kissaten-page-2 | |
| Need Recommendation for Coffee Shop Club I frequent went with SONOS. And a jukebox which folks can access from the TouchTunes app or from the machine itself. | |
| Class d amplification Thank you @mapman | |
| Analysis Plus Oval 9 Black vs Black Mesh Have no comparison clue. But the Oval 9 Black Mesh in my system are heavenly. I am guessing to get a game changing sonic difference would cost me way more than I am willing to spend. | |
| Class d amplification I am looking at Class D Audio GaNFet amps. Curious as to what pre-amps are pairing well in the class D world. |