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| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? I would give andy at vintage tube service a call and see what he recommends. He has tubes rated for phono stages that might work better in a high gain setup. | |
| Seriously? Why Buy ARC Ref 6SE? seems Benchmark LA4 is a better choice. Odd that there is limited info available about internal design flow of a preamp. Maybe a diagram showing signal flow.this would be of interest to many. or maybe not.Maybe if you did some research you could figure out the signal flow, or maybe not. | |
| I DON'T GET IT!!!!!! I believe the usb port on the node2 is for diagnosis not for output. Try a coaxial cable. | |
| Next Best Upgrade for Tidal MQA? You should take the advice of myself and several other posts about changing from the avr as a preamp and get a dedicated preamp, that will be your biggest hardware upgrade. | |
| Next Best Upgrade for Tidal MQA? I have apogee duetta 2 speakers, a krell amp and a bluesound node 2, I used a marantz sr7007 for a preamp and then an adcom preamp both sounded really bad harsh and not detailed. I bought a tube preamp and now I have exactly what you described, th... | |
| Next Best Upgrade for Tidal MQA? I agree with the posts that are telling you to get a dedicated preamp, that should be your first priority before anything else is done. | |
| Poor Fritz Kenjit if you can complain this much about the speaker industry, I wonder what you think of the recording Industry? | |
| Poor Fritz Kenjit I believe these high end speaker manufacturers make speakers for profit and not for practice like you would be doing. | |
| I really wanted to dislike D'Agostino You didn't like the sound of krell because you never heard it with the right preamp. I couldn't even listen to my krell amp with solid state preamps, at least the ones in my price range, but with a tube preamp it sounds great. | |
| Serious Problems with Qobuz Post no more then, I already told you that tidal has the same problems of not having something available that was before. The nature of streaming is conflict with licencing. Just canc | |
| SPDIF cable same as coaxial cable? No, they are two different formats. The main difference is that I2S contains both data and the clock (separate wires), while with S/Pdif you have to extract clock from the data stream (one wire). Yes, you can have multiple devices on I2S bus, b... | |
| SPDIF cable same as coaxial cable? Does SPDIF just take the I2S format and just change into a single connection instead of 5 connections. | |
| Serious Problems with Qobuz Did you read all the small print on your subscription, I don't think they guarantee that they will always have the music that they may have at any given time. They are still way better than cable or satellite tv, who will make you sign a contract ... | |
| The psychological factor Wouldn't it be better to have the preamp matched to the amp, so that at the amps max output the preamp volume control would be up above 12:00 taking the deficiencies of the volume control out of the equation. | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg I haven't been posting hear long, but been reading and learning for a while, and Al has a vast knowledge that was easy to understand. We should all try to be more like him, never a negative word, even though there were times that I didn't know how... |