jaymark
Responses from jaymark
| Speaker Cable Recommendations - Under 2k Zavfino cables are awesome | |
| Waht is the best streamer for the money under $2500 (no DAC or storage required). I second the Teac 505 | |
| CD and Network Streamers @mahler123 I recently got the 6 TB Melco server along with their CD ripper. Superb sonics. I stream thru my Teac dac and a Synergistic ethernet switch. The cd and the streamed files sound close but not exactly the same. Nevertheless, one does ... | |
| Pass Labs Speaker Choices PassLabs X150.5 rotating in rotation Don Sachs tube amp running in triode; . Listening to my system so much that I have to slide a solid state amp or two in the rotation to save my tubes. I have Spatial X5 speakers. Interesting they do better w... | |
| Class D with high efficiency speakers @tweak1 no the Voyager is not stock it has the EVS mod. | |
| Revel F208 - worth a try? A really nice polite speaker. I sold my F208s a while back and replaced them with Spatial X5s. | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? I second the SPLElector solid state preamp. Awesome performer. | |
| Quobuz subscription I have Qobuz. I like the sound quality on my reference system. I suspect the artists make good money off streaming as there is a lot more streaming volume per artist than sales of the same physical media. | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... So if a company makes 4 levels of the same product, even if they don't explicitly state it, they are inferring that there is an improvement in sonics at each higher level. Who knows if if is 5, 7.5, 10 or 15%. I don't take the claim of an 15% im... | |
| Analyzing DACs Listening to music is a subjective experience. Measurements of meaning should significantly correlate with the subjective experience or at least some component of it. This, for me, is where the measurement argument runs out of steam. Measurements ... | |
| The Forgotten Spica and Bolivar speakers. Back in the day I had both. Bolivar I believe was a budget or poor man's JBL offshoot. | |
| A Skeptics Digital Upgrade Journey Heck of a journey. Glad u took it. | |
| Puritan PSM156 I have one in my reference system. It is a stellar performer IMO. The only component not plugged into it is my Coda #16 amp. Highly recommended. | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? Zavfino cables and Grover Huffman cables are both superb performers. | |
| Anyone dislike Ohm Walsh speakers? Cheap crossovers were previously mentioned by @ oldhyvec, I think. This seems to be a common problem. In my Magnepan 1.7s, the crossovers were cheap junk. Asi Teknology rebuilt them and moved them into an external box. Strikingly positive sonic im... |