jax2
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| The best "imaging" speakers? I'm sure that speakers alone are not the answer. In the systems that gave me the best illusion of real life presence were MBL 101's, and a close second Hansen King. I think a key element of achieving this is rendering a lifelike scale (not too sma... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? Assuming that they are on the same bus, does the printer USB "tax" the DAC USB only when I use the printer or is it a conitnuous thing? The printer will "tax" the USB bus only when it is active. I doubt very much whether the throughput would inter... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? About the usb dac thing, and I know that isn't what the original poster was asking - while Firewire Dacs are few, firewire to spdif converters aren't, and they are relatively inexpensive ($200), so you wouldn't be limited to a USB dac - you can ge... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? all good except that you will find many more USB DACs then FW DACsI was under the impression the poster was asking about storage devices to store the music library on, and not about DACs. If you are asking about the DAC interface I'd be looking at... | |
| firewire or USB for external music storage drive? Firewire is probably the better choice if you are using a USB DAC. Every USB item you attach will share the bus with any others that happen to be demanding throughput at the time. So if you're running a USB DAC and a USB hard drive they will split... | |
| Shipping Questions - First Time Seller I always remove the tubes and ship them separately by USPS Priority Mail. For an amp like that it is cheap insurance and the buyer would probably agree. The tubes will arrive before the amp as USPS Priority is usually about 2 days. At 80lbs I thin... | |
| Please suggest good balanced Preamp Your list is already excellent. Any preference would have to be very much subjective and synergy would certainly be critical (so what's new?!). Add Modwrights LS36.5 - It has a 6H30 tube output and is tube rectified. One set of XLR's, no phono (Da... | |
| New amp or new cd player? I tried out a friend's Oppo 980 and was not impressed with the digital output through my DAC. It was OK but was handily spanked by my Modwright 999es. There may have been something amiss as I later tried an Oppo 983, which I still have. Same digit... | |
| New amp or new cd player? Definitely do your front end first. Although I have also read that a decent cdp used as a transport, and a dac such as the bel canto dac 2, sound nearly as good as some of the very good cd players out there.You might also want to look into PC Audi... | |
| Musical full-range in the $3-4K range used? A second vote for Duke's speakers (Audio Kinesis) - they've really impressed me at two shows. A big thumb's up for Coincident - I have Israel's Super Eclipse III's and love'em. Don't have enough experience with the others you've listed to comment. | |
| Tube amp recommendation Hi Jax2, my point has to do with equipment matching. An SET driving a 92 db speaker is going to get clipped a lot if you listen to demanding musical passages. On a speaker like that, you would need a lot more power- 60 to 100 watts, in order to ge... | |
| Tube amp recommendation In your price range, for a tube integrated you're probably going to do best with something used from China (Jolida, Prima Luna. Sophia, Cayin, Mysterie, among others). The Jolida 102B you are interested in requires manual biasing (a simple monthly... | |
| Tube amp recommendation FWIW if the amp is good, its good with rock, hip hop, electronic, classical- whatever.I might respectfully disagree with you here, Ralph. I think we've discussed this; the exception I can think of is with low-powered SET amps which excel at certai... | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio Thanks - I didn't even notice that. EXCELLENT information from various perspectives. For Cerrot, here is the take from the initial question about interfaces posed to Steve Nugent of Empirical. This also goes directly to the question of USB vs Fire... | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio Thanks for the link, Drubin...that's an interesting read. Also, Ckorody for the computer interface history. |