jastralfu
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| Small compact 2-way speakers? Harbeth p3esr xd vs DALI Menuet SE ? I don’t own either but I do have a pair of Falcon Q7 Gold Badges that are excellent. They are certainly within your price point and speaker category. Based on @dwest1023 description of the Dalis the Q7s likely sound similar with maybe a bit more... | |
| Need Integrated amplifier MA8950 or MA9500 | |
| Room Treatment Help REW and a mic to analyze your room. You can send the results to somewhere like GIK and they will make recommendations for you. | |
| Room treatment +1 @kofibaffour get a mic and use REW to analyze the room. You can send the result files to somewhere like GIK and they will make recommendations. | |
| A Review of the Denafrips Pontus Gen 15 DAC You will be fine with RCA interconnects, they will work well. | |
| Downsize from C2200/MC275 to integrated SS Sorry to hear you had such a rotten experience with your McIntosh dealer. I don’t think that’s the general experience but it was yours so I don’t blame you for wanting to look elsewhere. | |
| Seeking to upgrade from Weiss Dac 204 An R2R DAC might be what you’re looking for. Denafrips, Lampizator, Schitt, and Holo Audio all have DACs well within your price range new. I have a Denafrips Pontus II with a Hermes DDC and I like it very much and would likely sound much like wh... | |
| Do you have a speaker that’s not a big name maker but punches above its weight? Why? Another for Fritz. I’ve auditioned several other stand mounts that cost 3-4 times as much and have not heard anything better, at least not enough to justify the cost. They do everything well, particularly for the music I listen to most often. | |
| Downsize from C2200/MC275 to integrated SS Coda CSiB if you like the class A sound mixed with class A/B power. Maybe the McIntosh MA12000 with tube pre and SS amp since you already have McIntosh and like the sound. | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade I’d lean towards the Coda given you liked the Pass with the Fritz. The 312 is phenomenal but, since it’s A/B only, might not be what you’re looking for. At 300 watts it might be a better long term fit if you’re concerned about power and less eff... | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade MC462 or MC312 or one of the previous versions of those two. I have an MA8900 I run with my Fritz. I listen to rock often and it sounds outstanding to me. This pairing sounds excellent, imho, with all music genres in general, but excels with ro... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? @mulveling I think you hit on something. AI is not yet capable of building out a highly decoupled, n-tier application. All of the work prompting the bot to give you what you want is time wasted that could be spent on actually building it yoursel... | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade What I found listening to other speakers is exactly what @erik_squires suggests, different but definitely not better. And not different enough to justify the price, at least to me. I can’t stress enough to go listen first if you can. I went loo... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? Interesting article https://www.techspot.com/news/108651-experienced-developers-working-ai-tools-take-longer-complete.html I use AI as another tool in my work as a software architect for things I’m trying to learn about or understand. It usuall... | |
| Need to get off of bluetooth.... looking for a wifi streamer for my budget I used Soundiiz to export from Tidal and import to Qobuz. There was a little legwork on my part as not all the titles aligned completely but it worked seamlessly for at least 98% of content on all my playlists. It will import from Apple to both ... |