iseland

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How competitive are you with your system?
With that kind of certainty you should put up a picture of your system..  
Experience with SoulNote Dac2?
As a matter of fact I do have the pulsar aswell and it's a big step up with the reclocker , and for all that's holy get the best usb cable you can afford.  I got myself a Shunyata sigma usb and it is awesome.   
Experience with SoulNote Dac2?
I still can't believe people actually judged a dac for it's chip and not output stage.. Get yourself a D2 and if you for some reason don't like it sell it . Have had mine almost 2 years and never thought of swapping.   
How competitive are you with your system?
rank against who , owning same speakers , preamp , cartridge .??  
What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing?
that album ( Love ) was pruduced by Steve Brown , I sugest you get the next one Electric and have a listen it was made by Rick Rubin and its wery well made !! in my op  
Looking to Develop A Short List of Amplifier Candidates For A Pair Of JBL 4367 Speakers
Usually one of the problems with efficient speakers is the gain in the amps, you have to much gain so the preamp has no room to work with.  I had to "build " my own amps since the output from a modern dac or phonostage is very high so I would like... 
Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap
Throw them out the window and use headphones  😆😆😆  
Can't decide
The contour 20 black is far from bright , but it needs really good amplification to sound really good.  Not convinced parasound can take it all the way 🙄  
How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers?
What ever speaker I've had in my house, all of them got rid of sandcast resistors and iron core inductors aswell as electrolytic caps .   
Looking for new speaker cables
I haven’t heard anything better than chord company music speaker cables so I bought a couple.  As always you kind of need to put whatever in your system to find out what's tingling your pallet.   
Innuos sense 3.3.0 is here!
And as a long time innuos owner/qobuz user I'm surprised it took them many years to fix this connect function 😆  
I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!
Me personally,  there are plenty of excellent amps without plates in already made boxes I would buy instead of making my own. And don't get me wrong,  I love my hypex plate amp ! But if I  didn't had the need for convenient space saving solution ... 
Chinese DAC's
Personally I've haven't yet heard anything coming from China sounding better than anything I have before me . My tip would be to buy a dac from boulder or ps audio or any other colorado based audio manufacturer , they seem to make great quality pr... 
I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!
Well , if it's not in the cabinet it's usually just called an amp 🙄   
I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!
Would it might be the FA502 you have on order 🤔  Have that one and it's great..