jhills
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| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? @meiatflask With the PrimaLuna HP, I believe you can roll in the Tung-Sol KT-120 tubes. Have you tried that? I think you would be surprised how good the LRS would sound using the PrimaLuna with the KT-120 tubes. In my somewhat larger (14'x28') ... | |
| $39K for the Linn Klimax DAC/streamer? @mgrif104 I have been in audio for some 45 years, so am by no means a newbee. I never did claim that all amps, CDPs, DACS ect. etc. sound the same, just that you can not extract more from any streaming source than is there - regardless of ho... | |
| $39K for the Linn Klimax DAC/streamer? No matter what rediculas price is put on any streamer, it can only capture, reproduce and sound as good as what comes from the source and stream. Right now about any $500. streamer on the market will faithfully and acuratly do that. Above that, au... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search I found an interesting combination. Looking for a decent reasonably priced CD/DAC player with a COAX S/PDIF in, that I could us as an upgrade in sound with my old Denon 5 disc player, I picked up a good buy on a used Cambridge Audio Asur 840C. Man... | |
| The smoothest amp you've heard? At prices I consider reasonable (something not costing tens of thousands of $$$) there always seems to be a trade off of dull and muddy to get smooth, or harsh and edgy to achieve detail and punch.In the 80s I had a little 80/155 W. PSE Studio II... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system 1) The old original vinyl LP recording of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, "Whipped Cream". All cuts are great, especially the first "A Taste of Honey". Simply and well recorded - every horn and instrument on a stage, in its own place, with life like... | |
| Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago The speakers of my dreams thirty years ago was the Apogee Duetta Sigs. They were the closest thing to sounding like real acoustic instruments and true vocals that I heard. They did then and I have little doubt that a properly restored pair (with a... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Even though, for speakers, my personal preference is electrostatics and ribbons, from a recognition and marketing stand point, reliability and a broad range of price and performance choices, would be Vandersteen. For electronics, for all the same ... | |
| PrimaLuna Evo 200 underwhelming I see you have, or are considering sending back the PrimaLuna. If you haven’t already, I recommend you don’t - at least not until you give the KT120 or KT150 tubes a shot. Will cost you about $200.00, but from experience I can tell you, that with... | |
| THE IRS HAS TAKEN MY TRANSACTIONS VIA PAYPAL AND IDENTIFIED THEM AS TAXABLE INCOME @eag618 Glad to see that you are on a path to getting problem resolved.While I don't agree with all of PayPal's policies, on this issue with taxes, they are only doing what is required by lay for them to do.Either of two ways to handle, depending ... | |
| Magnepan, Best midrange? Sorry to offend Doug. Just pointing out that, regarding the OPs original post on the Maggie LRS, I am in agreement with him that there are not many, if any, that will do as well in the mids and overall performance at that price range.While I do li... | |
| The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? @lukaske You have a real winner there. The VAC phi 300 would be one of my top picks. Even the VAC phi 200 is very good.....Jim | |
| Magnepan, Best midrange? I think a lot of the point was lost throughout most of this thread. The OP was originally referring to the quality of midrange in the little, less than $1K, Maggie LRS and we end up talking about $8K - $25K speakers. In my opinion, for less than a... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? @zlone Vibration - What are the Main Sources?On a professional level, a large part of my training and job was to identify and eliminate destructive vibrations in industrial machinery. Aside from the out of balance of any of the machinery's rotatin... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! +1 realworldaudioMakes me think of many years back, just starting in home audio. I found an audio dealer (sad there are so few now) about 90 miles away. Even though they carried some very expensive stuff, they were more interested in working with ... |