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| Would You Rather Own A Good SET Amp, Or A Great Push Pull Amp? Meanwhile, I am still heartbroken about losing the amp, and by minutes. Something almost certainly never recoverable from. Eight years of effort, and hope, lost all at once. Well, if it’s any consolation, I usually find that when I’ve placed ... | |
| ??? Where Does "High End" Start ??? IME, it starts at whatever point you can finally relax and get off the upgrade train. That requires synergy. It doesn’t matter how much you spend if you don’t have synergy, and a good room in which to place the synergistic gear. | |
| CODA 8 V1 I have read that Coda gear sounds “dry”. I’ve not heard any but I would like to somehow. Of everything I have read it all sounds like the sound I am looking for except for the “dry” part. My No.11 is definitely drier sounding than the No.8, t... | |
| CODA 8 V1 The No.8 is a nice sounding amp. Better than much of what is out there. Definitely better than the Ayre V-5XE I tried. The latter was quite grainy in comparison. I wanted to upgrade to a No.16 but couldn’t bring myself to shell out the dough, so... | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old I am only approaching “mid life” (whatever that means) years, but I occasionally have moments like this. It’s funny though, it was much worse a few years back when I wasn’t taking good care of my health. It helps that are brains are rather mallea... | |
| Need Integrated amplifier The Axxess Forté line of integrateds are equipped with incredibly good DACs and have HT bypass. Their primary distortion signature is second harmonic which is possibly what accounts for their great sound quality. Also have nice remotes and a si... | |
| Do you have a speaker that’s not a big name maker but punches above its weight? Why? Philharmonic. All of their speakers are excellent and well priced for what you get. Their customer service is also outstanding in my experience. Ditto. They will promptly answer nearly any question you have about their products. Their ... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I have built/assembled the Seas A26 and Satori Helios Textreme kits available from Madisound. In both cases I concluded the resulting performance is on par with commercially available speakers that retail for >3X the price of the assembled kit... | |
| Rogue Cronos Magnum -Reverse Polarity ? Does the Cronus invert polarity? I believe it does not. | |
| Top DYI Speaker Options I recently built the SB Acoustics Satori Helios Textreme (kit available at Madisound). They perform better than all three-ways I have encountered short of high end $40K+ speakers like Rockports. I don’t recommend purchasing the available flat-... | |
| Low powered integrated recommendation | |
| Low powered integrated recommendation The Croft Phono integrated. Forget everything else. | |
| Is More Better? They will only help if placed in the ideal positions. Problem is, that ideal position might be in a ceiling corner. Unfortunately, subs don’t care about which way is up/down the way we do. | |
| Suggestions for a holographic preamp? The humble Topping A70 Pro is the most holographic preamp I have owned among many, including tubes and SS. Spend the $9500 you’ll save on a nice vacation or some ETFs. More money ≠ greater performance any longer when it comes to preamps. | |
| Weakest Link in my system... Power Supply, DAC, or... DAC progress has been significant since the 2019 release of this DAC? Nope! |