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| Looking for info on headphones Hi Blindjim,The AKG K702s plug in to a standard headphone socket (1/4" or 1/8"), not the speaker terminals of an amp. They are open-backed but ambient room noise is not an issue as open backed really means sound gets out rather than sound getting ... | |
| Looking for info on headphones I've also just headed down this path - wanted the option to listen to music at reasonable volumes when the house is otherwise under a noise ban - ie my 2 year old is sleeping! I picked up a pair of AKG K702s for $270 and an Audio-gd headphone amp ... | |
| Strange amplifier problem It would help to know which amplifier you are talking about. I assume when you took your break, you switched everything off? I always thought the fuse is there to protect the amp from power surges, etc. Do you use an electric filter or surge prote... | |
| Good $2k Used Speakers for 20wpc tube amp Living Voice speakers are excellent with tube amplification - the Auditorium is definitely within your price range but if you could stretch to 2.5k or thereabouts, the Avatar is definitely worth the extra. | |
| msb Ilink vs. wadia 170i ipd docks Nice post Nrostov! I have the Wadia 170i and without knowing the exact jitter figure, I can state that with the addition of a jitter buster in the shape of a Monarchy DIP Classic ($250), there was a night and day difference - everything from bass ... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? I agree with Cerrot that it would be very useful to know what the DAC is. Without knowing the DAC, everything else is pure guesswork. For example, if the DAC is a NOS DAC which does no internal jitter reduction, this could be the significant facto... | |
| Headphone Amps and Portable/Personal Stereo??? I just bought an Audio-Gd C-2C headphone amp following research though the Head-Fi site. Price was $335 plus delivery (from China). I'm utterly stunned by the sound quality through a pair of AKG 702s - significantly better than the Benchmark DAC w... | |
| "Watts" Versus "Current" Gs5556, great post - I found your bulb analogy very enlightening (pardon the pun). Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this! | |
| Integrated Help Sinisterporpoise68, the A5 is a later MF model than the A308. It delivers 250 w/ch into 8 ohms compared to 150 w/ch by the A308 along with higher peak to peak current. On the plus side for the A308, it provides both mm and mc phono input as oppose... | |
| Any Young Audiophiles Out There? Nice one, Cajunpepe! I've been out of vinyl for too long. I picked up the remastered Deluxe Edition CD last year which is excellent and has an added bonus of an 18 track rarities CD made up of a mix of studio demo and live tracks - great package. ... | |
| Integrated Help A third vote for MF but I would try either the A308 or the A5 with your budget. The additional power over the A3.5 will benefit your 4ohm speakers. | |
| Most musical player or DAC? Fair enough Tholt! I've not heard a PS 1 - I have a PS-2 and it sounds only average to me - nowhere in the league of even an older Arcam Alpha 7SE player. Perhaps the PS-2 was not as good sonically as the PS-1, which is entirely possible. Good luc... | |
| Most musical player or DAC? If you can barely hear the difference between a $3k+ CD player and a $40 PS 1, then I'm not sure you'll get value out of changing the CD player or getting a new DAC. If you are fixed on this idea, then I would take a look at one of the many NOS DA... | |
| thoughts on NAD M3 Listened to the M3 extensively when I was auditioning for a new amp around 12 months ago. It was very impressive driving some PMC speakers (OB 1's, I think) generating a wide soundstage with solid bass and good integration. I ended up preferring t... | |
| production or reproduction the term "accurate" cannot be used in a comparative sense. a stereo system is either accurate or it is not.in fact all stereo systems are in accurate. you can say one stereo system is less inaccurate than another, or one stereo system is more colo... |