jjss49
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| Advice from Audiogon family - best speaker $3k-$4k I am in a fairly similar search mode as the OP, and would have seconded @vinylzone suggestion of Maggie 1.7i at <$3k … BUT you can’t drive them adequately with that Mac integrated, and small/medium Maggies are so dependent on listener room con... | |
| For you Odyssey Audio Stratos amp owners none presently - straight in from dac have used cj et5 and now et7-2, or occasionally, an oldie but real goodie - carver lightstar ref passive... | |
| Anybody watch Steve Huff audio on the Tube? 🙄 | |
| More about integrateds forced to choose i would take the yamaha both are lowest quartile choices imo among good sounding integrateds | |
| More about integrateds so what is budget and how much power is needed (and to drive what) | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno not to belabour this discussion, but can we be precise on what we are talking about here? ... what the myth is or isn’t -- i am not arguing, just clarifying no doubt any speaker design and its resultant sound profile will play the same way given ... | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? @mapman Now what other impractical issues can we all worry about? haha - well said... never underestimate the degree of audiophile ocd, er, curiosity... | |
| gryphon amps 36.57% between good and great 😁 couldn't resist | |
| Qobuz Skipping or Short Pauses most likely internet/wifi feed also, bs nodes are also known to have issues coupling with denafrips dacs from its spdif rca output - i have posted about this issue, and it is known to alvin/denafrips on prior threads here | |
| Integrated Amp Suggestions consider hegel... you’ll artificially narrow the field if you insist on 2 pairs of speaker terminals just do spades + bananas for the two pair, use the one set of 5 ways | |
| Advice from Audiogon family - best speaker $3k-$4k This is the most personal of choices of all the components in our systems. I believe speakers come first and everything follows. You have to travel and listen! Asking for advice here is like asking someone to pick out a girlfriend for you. And li... | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? it depends in general it probably depends more on the volume pot configuration, not so much the remote control of it | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno @jjss49 If a speaker is ’brash’ at some point you’ll eventually tire of that even with electronia or rock. What’s being ignored is that there are some excellent recordings in these genres that easily reveal speaker problems. Once revealed you’ll... | |
| Advice from Audiogon family - best speaker $3k-$4k I have listen to Sonus Faber and I like them. Advice? you've answered your own question, if you like them after hearing them, what advice do you need? | |
| Comments re: MSB Director upgrade cost, additional hardware and cables i too am happier than a pig in sh*t with my msb analog dac w power base... the newer discrete is said to offer a little more resolution but i am really not feeling any need for that... |