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| Is your now then? 1970 Lafayette LA-950 integrated (have repurchased for nostalgia), Garrard 40B, Criterion 100B speakers … tremendous improvements over suitcase stereo and portable 5” Aiwa R2R.Thinking of recreating that strictly for nostalgia, but probably won’t.... | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? It has been (is) a fun thread. FWIW, I’ve finally decided. I am replacing my Oppo with a better CDP … Marantz SA-KI Ruby … reportedly a much improved DAC I can feed streaming content (including my CDs ripped to my Vault2i), but also retain improve... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? When I had the room for anthem last decade, I seriously thought about trying Usher D2 (huge horns) and SoundLab A1. No room now 😢 | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? Well, I guess we’ve settled that 😁I’m with those here who use streaming as a discovery tool, not for critical listening. Might change for me with a better DAC. Just not convinced a new spinner will have an onboard DAC as good as I can get stand-al... | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? @deadhead1000 exactly what I am doing now and planning, although still have the CDs and probably have a harder time parting with them (though I should). For all practical purposes the Vault IS the CDP, and don’t think an upper level CDP’s DAC will... | |
| Mating sub(s) with Maggie 1.7i @millercarbon he May have … Beatles Mae have also. | |
| Use of Component Video Cables as IC's or Digital Cable I have a few sets of these laying around from earlier (pre-hdmi) video days. Will use them on some vintage stacks when I run out of my regular interconnects. | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? @jperry using the DAC in the Oppo, not the bluesound, and/but wanting to upgrade that too. Eyeing the Audio-Gd R8MkII R2R DAC. It’s that OR if the DAC in a new Marantz or Yamaha CDP is enough improvement. Think that’s doubtful. | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? Restore from the two backups 😁But yeah, I’ve been a physical media hoarder too, and still buying. I’ll at least hang onto one of my lesser players to use as transport if ever needed (Oppo BDP-83 and/or Alex Peychev (APL) modded Pioneer DV563A | |
| Rotel RA-1592 MK II or something else to deliver around 200W to B&W towers around $3000? Lots of good options out there.As much as I like their amps, I think McIntosh are over priced and capitalize on legacy reputation and aesthetics. But if $ is no (significant) object, then I may have them in my system too.While not inexpensive, I h... | |
| Use of Component Video Cables as IC's or Digital Cable Everything I’ve seen says they should be fine for analog interconnects … they are designed to be high bandwidth and 75 ohm … maybe even better than ‘audio’ interconnects.Not so sure about using as digital interconnect. Interested in others’ comments. | |
| GaN based amplifier made in the USA from Class-D Audio USA Interesting (and interesting tech) … would love to see some reviews of these/any new GaN amps. Maybe a development that persuades me to try Class D. | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio I’m a little confused … you are gifting him some quite basic building blocks sans vinyl … say he has $5k to spend … but I’d assume that is NOT to be all directed to the vinyl rig (which creates a dramatically unbalanced system), but rather BOTH ac... | |
| Before I order the Magnepan 1.7s... The 1.7’s are only about $2k new, so many of these suggestions are multiples of that budget, if constrained to near that. For new near that, I’ve almost done a trial of the new LSA 20 Statements and/or Signatures. Nice finishes (not user selectabl... | |
| Mating sub(s) with Maggie 1.7i @coralkong , I do have an SVS SB1000 Pro still in the box destined for my living room (mostly aesthetically-driven … could schlep that upstairs if/when I get the Maggies and maybe tells me something.But like you, I think an IB is the ticket.And @m... |