jasonbourne52
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| Inexpensive all in one options Yamaha A-S801 integrated amp with DAC. Available used on eBay for between $800 - $900. | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? John Atkinson of Stereophile does the best quantitative testing of speakers! Unlike electronics speakers have not evolved to the point where they can hide their flaws from careful measurements! | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? Impulse response using square waves. Surprisingly many speakers fail badly at this simple test. The Quad 57 and 63 both do well, as does Walsh and Magneplanar. This is a test of coherency - one pulse in should produce one pulse out. Multi-driver s... | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 And how about the electret cartridges made by MicroAcoustics about 40 years ago? I had the 2002E in use for awhile. Sounded pretty good! | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 +1 Raul! Faster transient speed of MC cartridges let them more closely approximate the live musical event! I suspect that strain gauge and the new optical pickup from Japan can do the same! | |
| Tube virgin looking for tube amp under $3k PrimaLuna integrated would be my personal choice! I am an owner/collector of vintage tube gear. PL represents the best value of sound quality/build/cost today IMO! | |
| Amp and Preamp Full Tube or Hybrid? Option 1. Those speakers need the full control in the bass that only a SS amp can provide. | |
| New Audiophile going crazy When you start using a bathroom for equipment storage because you have run out of room elsewhere you are hardcore! | |
| What exactly is textural density?? That's Herb Reichert's style of prose! That's what he gets paid for! | |
| cart for Systemdek IIX Hana SL ($750) is an easy recommendation. MC with a Shibata stylus. | |
| No Oasis For Dynamic Compression A bandaid fix would be to use a dynamic range expander at home, like a DBX or RG Dynamics - with all the inherent colorations. You can't make a silk purse out of ... | |
| No Oasis For Dynamic Compression With the arrival of digital recording, storage and playback those limitations no longer exist. But alas, recordings made under the old paradigm will still exhibit those same faults. | |
| No Oasis For Dynamic Compression Dynamic compression has been in use from the early days to get music to fit onto the limited space of those rotating grooved discs - first shellac. later vinyl. | |
| Looking for a tube Preamp new or used for under $2000... Get a PrimaLuna tube preamp for about $2.5K - or less "pre-owned"! A quality product! | |
| Streamer with R2R DAC +1 jjss49! Sane advice! |