hifimaniac
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| Lyra : World class service Wow, I crunched my Lyra Titan i cantilever years ago and I was told they'd sell me a new one for $3500 for trading in the olddamaged one. I didn't think that was a good deal and I swore I'd never buy a Lyra again. The cantilevers on their cartridg... | |
| Pass Labs Amp X350.5 or X350.8 anyone compare? Owned a brand new 350.5 and ran it for 30 days to break in and it still sounded lean and bright to me. I was surprised as everyone told me how great sounding the Pass amps were. My old Jeff Rowland Model 9's of ten years ago easily outperformed th... | |
| Recommend a SPDIF cable Zavato, I didn't want to reveal the digital cable my Boomslang easily outperformed but it was the highly regarded Wire World Platinum Starlight; their top cable. Snake River Audio has a unique approach to the build of the Boomslang that is new and... | |
| Recommend a SPDIF cable Please try the Snake River Audio Boomslang digital cable. Jonny will make it RCA to RCA or BNC to BNC. This digital cable easily outperformed my digital cable costing 3x's the price. Jonny will offer a 30 day money back guarantee, but you won't se... | |
| VAC Signature Mk IIa Preamplifier with phono? Skinzy, since you have a low output MM, you would select the MC input selector on the phono Kevin installs and play with the ohms setting once you have it connected. Call Kevin Hayes at VAC and discuss my suggestion, but I think you will be fine. ... | |
| An audiophile in Tokyo, where the audio/LP stores Isn't Tone Audio in San Francisco a Shindo dealer? essrand, I think there is a Shindo dealer in your backyard! | |
| VAC Signature Mk IIa Preamplifier with phono? Skinzy, the Signature has a setting for MM so you'll be fine. Add the phono stage, you won't regret it. | |
| VAC Signature Mk IIa Preamplifier with phono? As an owner of the VAC Signature 2a with phono I'd give a thumbs up to adding the phono. I had an Audio Research PH-7 and the VAC phono outclassed it in every way; detail, extension, musicality, naturalness, etc. I have gotten to know Kevin Hayes ... | |
| Shrinking my system Check out the Sonist Recital 2's. Not well know yet, but they will be. The high efficiency and the superb sound will astound you. You may not even need a sub with this speaker. Here's a link: http://sonistaudio.com/index.php?main_page=product_info... | |
| cyro tubes Cryogenic International in Scottsdale, AZ can tell you all about this process; Charles does it for many tube dealers and manufacturers. It improves the gas molecular structure and lowers the noise in them. | |
| Best music server for the money Most computers are not built for sound and surely not high audio quality sound. The Baetis is the first to built with sound in mind first. The Baetis team listened to the sound of different mother boards and decided which to use first. There is no... | |
| T.H.E. Show in Los Angeles Hi Bill K, I know the same result occurred in the Berkeley Alpha 2 DAC when this test was tried. Beyond those two I am not familiar with any other DACs this was tried. All I am saying is DSD isn't all it is cracked up to be and you can get excelle... | |
| T.H.E. Show in Los Angeles I have an EMM Labs DAC 2x and some DSD files I play back over USB to take advantage of the DSD conversion on the EMM Labs or over a BNC connection that converts back to PCM. I use a Baetis Revolution II music server and can honestly say the DSD fi... | |
| Best DAC to also use as a preamp EAR DAcute 192 is superb as DAC and preamp. Has two tubes that can be rolled for change of sound. A very musical, Non-digital sounding DAC. | |
| Suggestions for a power strip or conditioner? Running Springs Audio makes a great sounding Power conditioner; the Dmitri or the Jaco, or if you like AC regeneration, the Pure Power 2000 is excellent. |