jjss49
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| Tube Vs. SS Preamps @atmasphere ralph, if you don't mind a somewhat related sidebar question - i am curious to know what you believe to be the source/reason/technical underpinning behind top level tube gear being able to generally (exceptions exist of course) provi... | |
| Rel Does Not Recomment Isolation Stands been with rel subs over the years that they know what they are doing, and how to very successfully employ their subs, is not worth debating not to say there aren’t other subs, other methods - i have tried velodyne, hsu, svs, even a wilson benesc... | |
| Just installed a bluesound node 2i , quality not so good i personally feel the node 2i/node is a terrific product, you just have to know what it does well and what it does not - it has an outstanding user interface (i still haven’t broken down to go roon yet), and it is a very nice (and exceptionally hi... | |
| Rel Does Not Recomment Isolation Stands @audition__audio The think the real issue is what type of floor is present in your listening room, I have a dedicated room with wool carpet over concrete and I can see no reason in this case to do anything other than drain the energy by couplin... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps @fuzztone 's pithy reply is well stated imo high level solid state is not fatiguing at all, if well matched through to the speakers but top tier tube gear gives a degree of bloom, palpability, richness of tone, and expansiveness of imaging that ... | |
| Thoughts on having 2 different sized subs in same room not ideal, but workable, might need a good bit of effort to integrate well | |
| Listening to music I don’t particularly like a few thoughts - just like food, wine, movies, etc, sometimes it is nice to veer out of one's comfort zone to experience something new (especially if recommended by those whose taste you like, respect, trust) - sometimes it can open a door to new... | |
| Advice needed re: new CD player purchase @jafant thanks for the follow up i had emailed the vendor you passed along to confirm part availability, but have not yet heard back | |
| I’m looking for an Digital XLR cable no reason to deviate from audioquest if you have good luck with them | |
| Subwoofer cable question @artemus_5 😂 i actually consider myself a geezer... am over 60 now! hard to fathom... have a great thanksgiving!! | |
| Great experience with audio society and local tech @hilde45 great reminder that the wonderful part of all hobbies such as this is that if we are fortunate, we meet good people with shared passions, kindred spirits on a shared journey, and make friends as a result here on this forum, it's also g... | |
| Subwoofer cable question @artemus_5 Guys. The question was how to cooect a Rel sub. It doesn’t deserve a treatise on the inner working of the bass signal. exactly - it's about helping the op, not about geezers boosting their self esteem... let’s just help the poster ... | |
| Different R2R DACs to @ghasley and other interested readers of this thread We are talking minor differences to major differences but these differences are the discovery that most dacs these days commit sins of omission rather than 20 years ago when a dac would exh... | |
| Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker? it does seem that snippy and snarky are in fashion, unfortunately - i fall into the rut occasionally as well as for time alignment allowing the brain to work less hard, maybe so, dunno, but while i would agree that vandy's are very relaxing to li... | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? yes hegels are well known to work exceptionally well driving maggies, and their sound is uber pure and sweet, tremendous imaging i don't own maggies anymore but am a big big hegel fan |