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| Denafrips Athena- is damn good typing between swigs of booze again, i see everything sounds awesome when intoxicated... 😂 | |
| Marantz Ruby PM KI amp vs Accuphase e-480 or e-380 a few comments - a number truly top tier class d amps are now, finally, really the equal to some of the best class a or ab out there... witness agd audions - that said, while i am sure the marantz unit sounds quite nice in absolute terms, i doub... | |
| Mark Levinson 29, 27.5... my 2 cents as follows - i will separate into 2 groups, lower power and higher power solid state power amps only (no integrateds): lower power (significantly less than 100 wpc) ... belles sa30, first watt f5/f6, audio sector patek se (47 gaincard ... | |
| Tube interference from router yes this can definitely happen ... play with moving a and b farther apart | |
| A warm natural sounding preamp if you are not averse to tubes i would suggest a conrad johnson or herron linestage meeting your stated budget | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear "Blue Maqams" by Anouar Brahem. I discovered it last year. It’s a fusion of jazz and Middle Eastern. I always knew I was searching for this album without ever realizing that I was searching for an album that fused jazz and middle eastern. agr... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? "The Lumin alone is a significant upgrade over the iFi Zen..." "If you are using usb to any dac, you will have inferior sq...." ahhhh yes... anonymous keyboard bravado at its finest, gotta love it... grains of salt, many grains of salt recomm... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? blah blah blah blah... its a hobby... do what you want, believe what you want... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? +1 @soix regarding the excellent performance and value of the ifi zen stream... tremendous value, just a terrific sounding product at a very very modest price, does exactly what it is designed to do, no frills but simply superb in its targeted fun... | |
| Is Mark Levinson still considered up there with the best of the best? +1 @twoleftears for the noobs and unaware, you might provide a synopsis of what has happened to revel owners and their speakers | |
| Do you consider cables to be a "component" of your system? yes, as i do the room, the rack, power supply and so on ... it all matters but experience tells you what aspects matter more vs less... so as not to let the tail be wagging the dog... just like in life, smart folks know what is really important, ... | |
| Marantz Ruby PM KI amp vs Accuphase e-480 or e-380 So... does the Marantz "economies of scale" trump here? Can they make just as good of luxury product for cheaper than the more "boutique" brand? Sound quality -wise, is the Ruby PM KI amp just as good or better (though without the features) as th... | |
| Clayton Shaw (Spatial Audio) visits Danny Richie (GR Research), with his X4 loudspeaker. agree clayton is a really good guy, knowledgeable but modest, and importantly very responsive and conscientious as a vendor -- like oz, i tried his spatials, but eventually moved on he should keep better company though... 😆 | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? goofy how this thread on such a minor, non-issue hasn't died under its own weight... | |
| Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up 🤷🤷♂️🤷♀️🤔 |