howardlee
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| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? The Audio Desk info has me thinking about the Degritter, which has pretty limited distribution despite a nice website. It's about $1K less than the Audio Desk, but the main issue for me, assuming it functions well, would be reliability. I have to... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State I'm throwing in a vote for Barry Thornton's Austin Audio Black Swan MM/MC phono pre. Unprepossessing, to say the least, little black box, all the dials you could ever want on the front, under $1800 and incredibly neutral and given to on-the-fly a... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! OK guys, that does it for me. There are some smart people on this forum. I like researching these things, but nothing matters much unless it's in your house with your setup. Hard to do that now; not like the old days. I'm usually too impatient ... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! Just to add: the Venus is the 12th Aniv. edition. | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... There's not a lot of point to be made discussing what young people today are going to do with their money. Their seniors (you and me) grew up with terrible products and experienced a revelation when they almost accidentally found themselves in a ... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh Bose wanted into the ups ale market. Why spend and spend over years to develop that segment when you can just buy it? How they manage/interfere with the acquisition will have to be seen. Mac has an excellent marketing base that would best not be m... | |
| Borresen X3 measurements The thing about Erin's review, for me, was that he claimed to hear this midrange "hole" in the sound before measuring and then backed up what he percepted by talking to others. I've felt that a lot of his other reviews were way over-measured to t... | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid I get the feeling you're talking about integrateds (or hybrids) in general. Other suggestions is why I posted this thing. | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid @yakbob, cannot thank you enough. Amazing diagram on the owner's manual, even showing inter-feet distance (no one does that). In a later section of the manual, the depth is given as 20 1/2 inches, with cabling! My rack is a separate heavy bookca... | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid I haven't seen a review like that but you make sense. Problem is, I've got a 15 1/2 shelf and the Mac is 20 inches deep. Their smaller 252 would fit but I don't think it would be much of an up move from my PS Audio Spectral hybrid. | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid I haven't seen a review like that but you make sense. Problem is, I've got a 15 1/2 shelf and the Mac is 20 inches deep. Their smaller 252 would fit but I don't think it would be much of an up move from my PS Audio Spectral hybrid. | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid I'm only interested in what they sound like. I know Dick Olsher likes the PrimaLuna but there are not many reviews of the MA352. There's also the MA252 though I have some write-ups comparing the two Macs and noting a significant difference betwe... | |
| Macintosh MA352 vs PrimaLuna 300 EVO Hybrid PrimLuna's website sure doesn't say anything about China. Lots of stuff about point-to-point wiring and Swiss-made wire plus the Dutch company and the European designers. Not to say that Chinese construction can't be excellent....I have a Jay's ... | |
| Pop album that has stood the test of time Nothing to complain about here. | |
| Pop album that has stood the test of time I went back and can see most of you folks apparently stop at the 80's. Makes me laugh. |