jjss49
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| What do audiophiles do in their cars? +1a sports car should have its own soundtrack - i have gone so far as removing all stereo head units, amps and speakers from my air cooled porsches to reduce weight (as well as some sound deadening), i never turn it on anywaysa cruiser/grand toure... | |
| DAC Dilemma in my experience, in a high quality good well balanced well constructed system in a good room, the psa-ds should sound noticeably smoother, significantly more analog, less robotic, if slightly less overtly detailed, than the topping d90 ak or ess ... | |
| DAC Dilemma opglad to hear you found a dac you like, and a pretty inexpensive one at thati must say i think there was/is a malfunction of some sort with your psa directstreamanyways, no matter, you are on to something you like better, that is all that matters | |
| Need help buying new speaker cable https://youtu.be/Nx4CAwSLXkYexcellent discussion, a very useful primer for newbs, covers all the important baseshis subjective thoughts mirror my own, as do his recommendations -- imo, imminently sensible, pragmatic, solid advicebtw, my understand... | |
| Circle Labs A200 Integrated amplifier review - It will appeal to both tube and SS lovers…… @whipsaw have you ever had a croft amp?ergonomically challenged, styled very plainly but among tube/ss hybrids so many swear by them driving harbeths | |
| Circle Labs A200 Integrated amplifier review - It will appeal to both tube and SS lovers…… @whipsaw will be fun for us to hear your comparison of the circle vs gato vs your hegel you had beforeenjoy! | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max Hegal H190 should be on your short list. That is about as high as you can go on 3,000 but i would not settle for anything less in the Hegel line and there is no need to do so. I’m shooting for the H20 power amp myselfoverly simplistic view imo for... | |
| HiFi vs MidFi can’t help but wonder if he speaks like that in real lifesadly, in this case, he might 😷 | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max relative to the best sounding nelson pass gear, usually his lower powered units, class a/b offerings from belles, odyssey, ava does not favorably compare -- if the objective is a full, natural, tonally/timbrally pure presentation (of course the cl... | |
| Why so many tubes? One would think after 117 years of evolution (1904, invention of the vacuum tube) and with only 4 other components involved (R, C, L, transformer) engineers would have reached the optimal configuration for a tube amplifier by now.when did they inv... | |
| How long do good speakers last? just got me thinkingthere is plastic in the oceans and landfills that are supposed to last 1 million yearswhy can't they make speaker driver surrounds with that cr%p?just like black boxes on airplanes... 🙃 | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max @hilde45@jjss49 mini gan 5 — that’s a really nice offer and my inclination is to say "yes!" but I suppose the question becomes whether it could possibly compete with the local Hegel.as you well know, h90 is an integrated, your stated goal is to ha... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max @hilde45good low hours h20’s in the 4 grand range stilli think your salks will be driven well enough by the h90 and you will get a good sense of the sound provided by hegels, which in terms of signature are very consistent up and down the line, 39... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649783884-hegel-h90/ <-- right in colorado, integrated, but you will hear what the hegel sound is, and can resell at that price in a jiffyhttps://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649747636-ayre-ax-7e-evolution-int... | |
| Vintage speaker suggestions fond memories come back when thinking about the original (wonderful) epos es14 and celestion sl6 - had them in college and working just afterthey had the metal dome tweeters that could ring a plenty (was awful when the first cdp’s came out) but wi... |