jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Is bass the most important frequency band? at a fairly high level in this pursuit, it is obviously all important, any area lacking will call attention to itself fairly readilybut for me personally, midrange palpability/timbre is absolutely central to my enjoyment of most music i listen tot... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-05 or Conrad Johnson ET7 S2 in general i feel cj > carybut the slp-05 is widely well regarded, and it has been viewed as cary’s very best effort (i have had other cary preamps but i have never had the slp05 in my own system)my guess, and it is only an educated guess, is t... | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and h390 h590 have a super smooth super suave sound compared to h160 h190 h360 gen... bent holter and crew voiced the preamp section differently in these current top models, it is almost a tubey treble quality, no loss of inner detail or blackness but... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? @three_easy_payments @jw944ts @nonoise the other, rather interesting (if not unexpected) consequence of this thread is that the worst offenders are in effect ’self identifying’ right here...some great advice has been given here, the best of which ... | |
| Hegel 590 or Devialet 440 expert pro with warranty? i have both hegel and devialet unitsthe hegels are superb but if you already have a devialet 200 now, i would stick with it and if you are toying with improving your system, perhaps look elsewhere in the chain for an opportunity (you did not discl... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? @jw944tsi believe your initial post has stirred good discussion and served us all with a reminder to behave better here@danagerre your q on the sonnet morpheus, pls search my posts from about a month back, i compared it to the doge 7, audio mirror... | |
| DAC/ Streamer - to upgrade or not to upgrade? sorry i have done alot of streamers and dacs over the last 2 years but i have never heard of what you are using... so i have no clue what would be an upgradein general, a good starting point would be a bluesound node and a schiit gungnir multi bi... | |
| The value of embellishment? high end audio crosses over in luxury goods for the wealthy with plenty of disposable income | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? a) this forum has been around for a quite while, there is a history here (in general and between specific long time users), and while the usernames are anonymous usually, folks do get awfully tired of the ’voice’ of many others, often stuck on rep... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @verdantaudio i am quite enthralled by both the weiss and the hugo tt2, with the m scaler upstream... both are beautiful sounding, superb, and utterly without digital artifacts, tonal balance and nature of imaging slightly different between the tw... | |
| Marantz PM Ki Ruby and RME ADI 2 (Am I crazy?) op@jjss49 is the power amp of the marantz as good as they come for the price or should I consider upgrading? If latter, do you have any recommendations? your marantz integrated amp costs $4000i think most really highly regarded stand-alone linesta... | |
| Integrated / speaker pairings in the $6-7K range Really depends on what sound characteristics are most important to you. ^^ this ^^ otherwise the replies will just become a chinese menu of 112 random itemshegel h160 or h190 and any good $4000 / pr speakersame for a naim nait xs2 or 3 with good ps | |
| GaN Amp & Speaker Popping Sound At Power On Those of you with this amp or other GaN amps, do you experience a similar popping sound out of your speakers at powerup? Peachtree technical support stated that this was a characteristic of GaN technology.nope | |
| Marantz PM Ki Ruby and RME ADI 2 (Am I crazy?) not surprised at allso long as the source have enough electrical drive into the power amp, it takes a very very nice linestage to sound better than no linestage at all... (and your marantz pre stage just ain’t that nice, i am sorry to say...) | |
| Ayre Codex (former) Owners, what did you move on to? i still have mine, among several other dacsto me, you need to move into the above $2000 price class of dacs to surpass the excellent sound the codex delivers, particularly through its balanced connections - not to mention the additional value as a... |