jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Needs advice for Power/Int Amp up to ~2700$ (New/Used) - MF/McIntosh i have no idea what your speakers sound like or what sound you like but just on my experience with amps, using the criteria of excellent performance, purity/transparency/neutrality, ability to drive most real world speakers, and excellent value (... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? @goofyfoot I might be mistaken but I thought Harbeth had moved its manufacturing to China, sharing the same manufacturing facility as Quad. I do hear that British speakers, Sterling, Rogers, Quad, Harbeth, etc... all share a common character... | |
| Question about Bi-Wiring i have never heard the benefits of biwiring versus a single run of good speaker cable, well terminated and connected i have been at this since 1980, through probably 70-80 pairs of speakers of all shapes sizes makes | |
| Revel F228be- will my amp be enough? should be enough | |
| XLR wire and RCA wire yep sometimes rca 2 conductor, xlr 3 conductor | |
| Denefrips Pontus "burn in" period? @jin78 see below... his reply to my inquiry about my pontus not playing hi res (above redbook) streamed content from qobuz and tidal via node/node 2i For hi-res, Node2i and Pontus Coax may not be compatible due to lower output VPP on the... | |
| Modded Orchid MHDT vs. Holo Audio May DAC @hilde45 nice report, thanks, but as @artemus_5 says, holo may is 6 grand, a modded mhdt orchid about $1700-1800 (btw, what tube did you use in orchid?) -- may should indeed be a lot better... be a real problem if it weren’t parenthetically --... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? any competent business person takes into account fixed cost/one time expenditures to create/develop a product for sale, and how such costs relate to the anticipated sales volume of said product - failure to do so is financial malpractice that is ... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? I was just wondering what all the fuss is about — won’t know until I listen! a universal truth for any high well-reputed end loudspeaker... and even some not so well reputed ones 😂 | |
| Denefrips Pontus "burn in" period? Alvin actually stated it was the Aries II that has a compatibility issue with the Node coax input. this is the case with all denafrips dacs and ddc's... the node coax digital output voltage is lower than most other streamers and the denafrips u... | |
| Spatial M3 Sapphire or Klipsch Forte 4 spatials will certainly give you the awesome bass impact and a sharp transient response... those are the strengths of that speaker line... you will need more amp than you think to control those giant woofers though...at least for the sapphire seri... | |
| Denefrips Pontus "burn in" period? the pontus also has various settings... should use os without filtering for clearest most balanced sound... pontus gets murkier in nos mode typed that one a little too fast... what i meant was to use the ’least’ filtering while in oversampling... | |
| About users with hidden agendas turned it into a complete $hit-show. accurately stated at this point, for this thread... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? xd versions are very very incrementally altered over just prior gen harbeths bigger change can be heard in 40.2 or shl+ or 7es3 versions from those prior... 40.1, shl non/plus, c7es2 - as others have said, mid-bass/bass was tightened up and trans... | |
| Denefrips Pontus "burn in" period? Running Tannoy XT8F’s not sure whether these will easily show the performance difference that a pontus will bring over a pro-ject dac, but i would think so the pontus also has various settings... should use os without filtering for clearest mo... |