jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| How much gear do you own? How much gear do you own? alot, as in way too much really need to pare down (been saying that for 20 years) 🤣 | |
| What area or country do you live in ? north of san fran in nor cal | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment it goes back to 2020 but i must say that by far, by far, the most impactful change i made in my system is going to streamed music (tidal/qbz), and of course, the gear that enables it completely changed my listening habits (cdp and record players ... | |
| Sound System on $10K Budget just for fun, i looked in the classifieds and here is a system that may suit the op well, and save $ to boot https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649797985-linn-ninka-and-trikan-loudspeakers/ https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649801407-anthem-m... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? @jbhiller is also right to bring attention to the lovely carver 275 wonderful amp in many ways, moderate heat output (more than the lta but a good amount less than the primaluna with half the # of power tubes) - it is also a tube amp that is very... | |
| Sound System on $10K Budget to be honest with you, with your clear and practical assessment of how you will use the system, i don’t think you need to spend 10 grand 4-5-6 grand should do it... my 2 cents maybe get lower-mid range floor stander focals or elacs with a matchi... | |
| Refurbished Amber Series 70 it has been many years but i remember the amber 70 as a fairly sweet sounding solid state unit with a little ’mosfet mist’, and very good but less than excellent bass control it did the critical midrange right, with decent body and no obvious gra... | |
| How good is Pass INT25? i have the xa25 which is the power amp section of the int25, i run a dac with volume control into it, so it is functionally working very similarly to the int cousin fed with a fixed output source sonically, in build quality, and in terms of the c... | |
| More expensive = better? always as in, 100% percent of the time 😉 | |
| Do have anyone to purchase Audio Research REF 75SE in 2021? nelson pass' amps can sound rather different from each other, based on version, power level, and topology... can’t lump them all together in my experience - different models give you something but you give up other things arc ref 75 is definitely... | |
| Any recommendations for a tube integrated amplifier i wish you good luck finding a tube amp to drive the quads properly (unless you have a small room or listen at low levels) | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? there are people who have been in this arena for some time, yet don’t trust their own ability to discern what sounds good or ’right’... lost souls in this pursuit as far as i am concerned then there are folks who rely on measurements, must, just ... | |
| Toe-In or Toe-Out follow the manufacturer guidelines as a starting point, if you haven't already the instructions of any good speaker maker will take into account the dispersion pattern of said speaker | |
| Streaming 102 +1 @soix What improvements are you looking for and what sound characteristics are most important to you? This is important in choosing the right DAC (or anything really). IMO both streamer and DAC are important, but I think you’re on the right ... | |
| old ears yep, as the others have said... if you tell us about your room, your tastes, your system etc, we can suggest what to consider |