jjss49
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| Your experience with an inexpensive DAC? 1) i had until fairly recently a pioneer pd65 elite cdp - i would say the dac in that unit sounds as good as most modern dacs under $800, the sound is musical, not in your face, very decent resolution, excellent top to bottom coherence 2) that sa... | |
| VAC and Kevin Hayes are totally unresponsive. What's up with that? he is getting older now, maybe slowing down a touch, like many of the stalwarts who established hi end hifi from the 70’s it has been a couple years, prior to covid, since i have reached out to kevin hayes for help or advice on his gear, but when... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided @cat_doorman “Not all those who wander are lost.” well said @troidelover1499 you are kind, i try to share what knowledge and learnings i can, as i have learned much from others here as well over the years and i’ll always be indebted fo... | |
| Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker? a few points flat frequency response is easily obtainable in front of speakers but if the idea is to make a loudspeaker sound good, truly flat frequency response is the wrong goal (google ’bbc dip’) time coherence is only meaningful if delivered... | |
| Next upgrade? @sounasega for other thoughts on how best to further upgrade i would encourage you to speak more about what you hear in the system today as it stands, what are its strengths and weaknesses as you hear the music, and what you would like to have i... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided i am surely one of the gear swappers/hoarders, been doing it off and on, since my college days in the early 80’s to me, there are different ways to enjoy this pursuit first and foremost, i believe there is much much wisdom in not swapping gear m... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere c-j | |
| Next upgrade? @sounasega I have stock 12au7 for the pre and genalex kt77 on the power stage. I alternate them with the stock el34, not much difference most primaluna dialogue users find that replacing the two center small signal input tubes improve the sou... | |
| Next upgrade? what tubes are you running in the primaluna? input and power tubes... | |
| Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker? sometimes | |
| Looking for thoughts on Sonus Faber speakers @ghdprentice this back and forth reminds me of conversations i had at some past hifi shows with certain dealers and importers... we spoke about speakers like harbeths, classic spendors, vandersteens etc, as being speakers that more experienced a... | |
| A guy asks a question about high efficiency speakers........ @atmasphere +1 the spam attacks on this site of late have been staggering really hope tammy et al can get it under control its awful | |
| Musical Fidelity - Tri-Vista 21 DAC for Tidal and streaming i have a trivista dac with a modded output stage, it is just terrific and works fine fed by my node via digital coax out | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. i agree wholeheartedly with recent posts by @denverfred @mitch2 @drugolf @rocray for every mistreated real buyer walking in with wads of cash ready to buy, there must be 20-50-100 a-holes who mercilessly abuse the retailers' time, energy, facili... | |
| "warm" solid state integrated amplifier @ryder I presume it's not 590X but 509X? yes you are correct, it was a 509x model, sorry for my typo i must say i find the model #s for luxman integrateds somewhat confusing... i am sure it makes perfect sense to those who live mainly in the... |