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| which amp for bedroom system with harbeth 7es-3 XD https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649836446-hegel-h160/ a grand cheaper than the benchmark... will make the c7's sing beautifully - very pure sound, but no tubey coloration though | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? My approach to audio these days really helps me to stay out of these arguments. it’s simple: I like the way my audio sounds. Until I don’t. And then I fix it. And I have zero expectations of persuading anyone to like what I did to make it sound ... | |
| Cullen Cable pat cullen is rick’s son rick is head tech at w4s, not sure if he is part owner with e-j... rick built a name modding gear at his own shop called cullen circuits, among his good work are well modded, nice sounding dacs like the ps audio d-link, a... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? very much agree w comments by @bassdude @prof @bassdude great call on hegel h590 - the 590 in particular has a little extra sparkle over the warmer voiced 390... and it is not an accident that alan shaw uses hegels in development and at audi... | |
| Who's using Harbeth with tubes, what speaker model and how many watts per channel? @pdreher roger m's rm9 is one helluva tube amp, had one long ago, always regretted selling it (though my sore back does not hehehe)... that superb amp has nuance and balls too, one of the few tube amps that can match what the better audio resear... | |
| looking to match a new speaker to ARC REF75se proacs, big spendor classics, sonus fabers are well known good matches with reference series arc tube amps... | |
| If you’ve heard an iFi Zen stream, anything better under $1k? zenstream definitely benefits from an lps (a true lps is better than ifi’s own filtered wall wart ’upgrade’ ps) - ideally fed at 12 v dc input even better, additionally, is to feed the zs with a filtered ethernet signal via an etherregen or simil... | |
| Interconnects for MHDT Orchid i have used the garage1217 adapters for both 6dj8 and 6sn7 octals... they are well made and bring a whole world of old stock tubes into play for the mhdt tube buffered dacs only downside is the top cover won’t fit or the tube + adapter will sit h... | |
| Spatial M3 Sapphire or Klipsch Forte 4 i owned m3 sapphires for a time, i would say they will not work properly with 8 wpc tube amps... the 4x 15 in passive woofers need pretty decent amp damping factor to control the bass output - i tried my cary 300b se-i on them and i felt the bass ... | |
| Impressions of the Re-issued Genalex Gold Lion U77/GZ34 Rectifier Tube yep, old post here i advise all who ask that when it comes to gz34/5ar4’s it is really best to stick with old stock uk/dutch ones, and then usa ones, even if one has to pay up for them the old world ones are exceptionally well built and last a l... | |
| Where did he go? yes i suspect what lewm is thinking is correct 🤢 | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? @avanti1960 we all hear differently i am simply reporting what the manufacturer intended with the update xd = 'extended definition' happy listening | |
| Interconnects for MHDT Orchid in addition to others mentioned, i would try lower to midgrade cables from kimber zu audio nordost | |
| Qobuz/Tidal Differences there have been past threads on this subject, op - pls search and you will easily find short answer, both sound very very good, with a streaming set up well implemented... qobuz sounds slightly more ’solid’, less ’airy’ than tidal, which often ha... | |
| How to make small room sound bigger nearfield listening helps greatly too |