jjss49
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| $1000 (used ok) Streamer Dac recommendation please +1 @mesch i have a zenstream now, in addition to using sonore's optical rendu setup as renderers w roon... one usb out one clean spdif coax out, both are excellent there are numerous youtube vids on the zenstream, it is a very very nice soundin... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? @secretguy your system may not be resolving enough... 😂 | |
| Soundsmith notes the passing of Doug Cassara thank you for posting peter and speaking so fondly and sadly of doug my condolences on your loss of such a beloved friend your mourning for doug aside, i hope you are well now, fully recovered from your bouts with covid i wish you well, and hop... | |
| Luxman L505uXii or Hegel H390 both very good | |
| 6H30 replacement i am lost all of a sudden op was asking for 6h30 equivalents for a pathos unit how come we are talking about 12ax7’s now? | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer @roxy54 you friggin' kill me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer @laoman i do hope you approach your real life rather differently than how you handle yourself here, if not, i would only say i feel sorry for you, and for all who those need to deal with you... wish you good luck dude, somehow i feel you will ne... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? @secretguy i found found that cables do matter, but they seem to impact the sound in inverse proportion to the size of the signal they transmit... so most cable sensitive are phono interconnects, then analog or digital interconnects, then speake... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer @laoman since you asked, i speak three languages fluently but i don’t feel the need to advertise it and i suspect i am the same race you are you want to play here, grow some thicker skin @roxy54, long time contributor, good guy, makes joke ab... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? i remember quite a few years back, at a high end audio trade show, over a casual lunch break with one lew johnson and jeff fischel of c-j... talking about lotta things, the subject of mega buck cables came up, lew made a point... in the high end a... | |
| Do you trust your system? leaving aside the controversial title of the o-p, i would say that it doesn’t take a super highly resolving system to hear the vast effect of different recording/mastering/mixing qualities on the sound we hear... but on a highly resolving one, i... | |
| 6H30 replacement indeed jim... one person’s bright and bleached is another person’s transparent and extended one person’s luscious and romantic is another’s muddy and homogenized one person’s lively and fast is another’s strident and zippy this hobby is about ... | |
| $1000 (used ok) Streamer Dac recommendation please agree with fuzztone that bluesound node (current or 2i) is a very good starter streamer/dac - streamer is quite good, dac is decent, but can certainly be bettered in terms of sound quality others to consider used are innuos zen mini and auralic a... | |
| Your single most significant purchase mistake? i noticed the recently initiated thread on this mike powell fellow and his youtube posts were abruptly taken down... i had posted details of my unacceptable experience on that thread dealing with him | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer @rimo thank you for your post... useful historical perspective, reminders about respect, enjoyment, how short life is, real music, the power of positivity |