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| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition @ Jackd I’m very intrigued by the fact you own a Sachs and a Supratek. Understanding you have the latest Sachs, can you share which Supratek you have and a deeper insight to the differences if you could please? | |
| Which amp would you choose and why - Pass Labs XA-25 or First Watt F8? galacticmayan - I was in a similar situation owning Tannoy (Churchill’s) and intrigued to try a First Watt product. I emailed Nelson and he said:On thing about our amplifiers, they all like the Tannoy products – not a surprise since that’s our ref... | |
| Problems with Innuos Music Library missing covers I’ve had a similar issue, even after updating to V2 Innuos Sense. 3 weeks later, 3 emails to support an no answer. I suspect they have been overwhelmed with this release. Since the upgrade I found the OS thought I didn’t have an internet connectio... | |
| Elrog 300b's for sale. Your thoughts? Now three years later, I’m curious, has the Elrog reliability been proven? | |
| Which subwoofer? I’ve been aware of the great benefits of the DBA swarm through many post here on the ‘Gon. Technically GR’s OB servo design make a ton of sense to mate up to my Quad 63 USA monitors.has anyone seen a post of a design that specifically mates with t... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST TOUCHY SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? +1 Winstonwas1 - Eva is a perfect choice.+ khughs - Bonnie’s cover of John Prine’s Angel from Montgomery is a great choice, I’ll add her rendition of - I can’t make you love me is another. | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. If you’re still open to a tube amp still, and you want to give the the current they need, there is one amp I know that’s well within your budget that would do an awesome job with them - it’s the Antique Sound Labs Hurricanes. 100w triode, 200w pen... | |
| BUI - Guilty Vinylzone, Congratulations on the new acquisition. As long as you buy anything used at a price you could resell it for if you don’t like it, you’ll never get hurt in this hobby. Buy all accounts the BAT is a good piece of kit, nice tube attributes... | |
| The Intellectual People Podcast - Founder/CEO Chuck Surack of Sweetwater.com jtw - thanks for sharing, it was fun to hear this mans articulation of his visions, passions for the business, and his customer. What a great entrepreneur which deserves his successes. The world need more people like this! It would be interesting ... | |
| recommendation for a high end analog system @dorkwad when you say...“I used to have a Maplenoll Ariadne TT/arm which was excellent sounding. The Illustrious is a very good sounding arm that is a significant upgrade in all ways from what I had before.”In this regard you put an OL Illustriou... | |
| Innuos Zenith Mk3 vs Zen Mk3 + Phoenix Darn, I missed your comments in_shore. I glad you did find (like me) the Zenith Phoenix combo worthwhile. What DAC did you pair it with? | |
| What makes speaker's sound big? Mikelavigne, where you said....some good mid bass is also helpful; again the speaker driver surface in the mid bass needs to be matched to the volume of the room so it can propagate. the whole room needs to be energized.is there a formula one cou... | |
| Opinions!! Most in your situation that have stayed and appreciated panel speakers have a real hard time moving to a boxed speaker. ’m surprised you didn’t put Soundlab on your list. They would check all your boxes. | |
| Innuos Zenith Mk3 vs Zen Mk3 + Phoenix antigrunge,Musicians used to hear A=432 for a very long time. It is said to be more natural. Here is a little bit of background:https://www.mindvibrations.com/432-hz/If someone can build a box that will play it both ways and people appreciate it a... | |
| Innuos Zenith Mk3 vs Zen Mk3 + Phoenix @jsqtYes, it is about taking concert pitch A=440, and lowering it to 432. This means the whole song is dropped via a DSP. They say it’s more natural and pleasing to the ear and that concert pitch at some point in the past was 432. I suppose whats... |