jallan
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| Is low cost DAC worth it? I bought my son a Schiit Modi Multibit in December 2021 and I was astonished at how great it was. It had lots of drive and life- I would characterize the sound as exuberant. It was far better than any of my older dacs. $300! | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often In regards to ATC, I would argue that the consumer is getting a better deal, because the in-house design offers higher value for the same price. My SCM35’s with a ScanSpeak tweeter always sounded hard on top. My SCM40 II’s ATC-made tweeter is far ... | |
| Cable elevators I remember the Mapleshade demo rooms featuring a giant spider web of cables suspended from the ceiling, with their exceedingly thin cables being clad in thin clear styrene or the like. The sound was always unrelentingly hard and harsh. I never lik... | |
| Cable elevators I think it depends heavily on the construction and shielding in the cables. I couldn’t tell anything different with my AQ cables with DBS. But with tiny and thin Mapleshade cables with virtually no shielding by design, it makes sense to get them o... | |
| Are Sales Down Speaking of prices, I note that ATC speaker prices are down significantly, like 25%, according to the latest Absolute Sound loudspeaker issue. Music Direct shows these lower prices as well. Really good price/performance now! | |
| Final? ARC Chapter... Good news. Mr. Cora is a good guy, and yes, I have always seen his products driven by Audio Research (although I read he used VAC gear at Axpona). | |
| Digital Dilemma I recommend Aurender N150 + Schiit Yggdrasil + Quboz (I have an N100H). Very happy, play my records maybe once per year! | |
| Best Floorstanding Speakers Buyers Guide 2023 ! That’s “granite “ from the stone business as in countertops. In a scientific classification, the cabinets are not granite per se. Lots of stuff gets called “granite “ that isn’t. The stonework is Impeccable. But the name matters in terms of under... | |
| Best Floorstanding Speakers Buyers Guide 2023 ! The Acora cabinets are made from gabbro, not granite. Granite has quartz grains in it. Gabbro does not, and it is the coarse grained equivalent of basalt, where granite is the coarse grained equivalent of rhyolite. Granite has about 70% SiO2 in it... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! Whenever I have listened to 3.6’s, I did not feel the need for a subwoofer. I would consider matching 3.7’s with a set of Schiit Tyr’s. | |
| The best part about MQA bankruptcy.. I wonder about the Absolute Sound’s absolute schilling for MQA some years ago. It seemed religious…or financial. It also caused me to realize that this magazine had strayed a long ways from that I subscribed to back in 1974! In any event, I almo... | |
| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers ATC Acora Magnepan Magico My favs with a strong amplifier, though Acora is always shown with a tube amp | |
| Tubes for a pre stage... matched NEW or unmatched identical NOS? On my Audio Research SP6B, the individual tubes can be biased, and it definitively improves sound quality. +1 re Brent Jessee, excellent guy, my matched Raytheon VT231’s and CBS/Hytron JAN 6S7N’s are wonderful, and he was a knowledgeable pleas... | |
| Rank your least favorite. Trying to avoid Al poor purchase. I have a Hegel V-10 and it’s decent. | |
| For the first time... I had the same gob smacking feeling and reaction when I replaced my Halide Designs HD DAC with a Schiit Yggdrasil. Mind-blowingly better, and the effect increased when I replaced using my Mac laptop as a streamer with an Aurender. MUCH better than... |