jallan
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| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? The Border Patrol R2R Dacs are on sale, for around $1473 to $1975 based on the number of inputs. The GSII Schiit Yggdrasil OG is $1699. Both of these sound great and are made in the USA. | |
| Help Select an True Bookshelf Speaker I have sealed ATC SCM7’s in my bedroom, replacing ported Infinity’s that chugged through their port. They sound really great! | |
| Bose buys McIntosh This seems like a lifestyle corporate purchase for an iconic lifestyle brand. McIntosh certainly makes quality equipment, but most is far from state of the art. The use of the auto formers really adds a distinctive sound character and the use of t... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? In November 1979 I was in San Diego attending the Geological Society of America meeting as a grad student, and a dealer demonstrated the Hill Plasmatronics for me. I still have the one page color brochure. What a nice guy- the owner of the shop di... | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! @lalitk I think you are correct! | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! I thought that the CAF was really fabulous. Going over all three days made the show far more relaxing. Most valuable to me were the many pleasant and informative discussions that I had with manufacturers and attendees. I really enjoyed an extensiv... | |
| 6SN7GT VT231 TUBES Bad not Nad! | |
| 6SN7GT VT231 TUBES I meant to say that I used the Sylvania Nad Boy in the buffer of my Saga. | |
| 6SN7GT VT231 TUBES +1 for Raytheon VT-231’s! The Ken-Rad VT-231’s have the most solid bass of all the 6SN7’s I’ve heard in my Cary SLP05, Schiit Freya+, and Schiit Saga. The 5692 versions are smooth sounding. My favorite combos now are a quad of Raytheons in the Car... | |
| Reliability - what’s your experience been? I’ve only had one string of bad reliability. Arcam came out with a new line of excellent sounding universal players, and I bought two. Both of these had their laser assemblies fail three times each before I gave up after 2-3 years of ownership. Th... | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf ATC SCM40 in white- listened to them in this color yesterday at CAF. $7000 in passive. | |
| Who remembers California Audio Labs? I had the CAL Delta and Alpha combo. Very warm and musical, but resolution wasn’t its strength. I still have them, but I have to say that streaming through my Bluesound Node II is more resolving. what sank CAL from memory was their movement int... | |
| Bluesound Node130 LPS upgrade... I have seen used Aurender NH100 streamers for as little as $800 used. I would consider going this route. It’s FAR superior to my Bluesound Node 2i. | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit C-J is notorious for being hard on preamp tubes. This was one of the factors why I bought a Cary instead. There was just too many reports in the ET series of the 6922 tube lasting only a short time. most tube preamps are easier on their tubes.... | |
| ATC active vs. passive I have passive ATC SCM40 v.2 speakers in a 22 by 24 foot room, which replaced similar ATC SCM35 speakers. I replaced the speakers after 18 years of ownership primarily because the production of the tweeters was moved in house, and the treble becam... |