jjss49
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| Opinions and choices for a small speaker for mid sized room. soooo many out there, seriouslyi personally would look for used little proacs or perhaps get a pair of fritz or little salks | |
| tube or solid state phono amp with a tube integrated amplifier? i have preferred a very clean quiet ss phono stage (esp w lomc carts) then add tubes in the linestagehave had trouble with noisy tubes in the phono stage in the past... can be pita and frustrating | |
| Helping a friend build a new system i would agree that fritz speakers should be seriously considered, as they are easy to drive, tube amp friendly and in a small room, can present music fairly full range or close to it (always can add a rel sub later if the listener feels he wants a... | |
| Mola Mola Tambaqui @kw6 I am narrowing it down to Pontus II and AN 0.1x or SW1x dac 1 special. Both those dacs use the Phillips TDA 1543 chip with a tube inside. My question is can those units sound as full and resolute as the Pontus?sorry i can’t help you there, as... | |
| Rank the top reference DACs you've heard apple iphone 8 | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. Toppings makes great products. There is a review by Amir that he reviewed the schiit DAC and found some flaws. He worked with the company and they made changes to improve their product. Facts are facts. Measurements are Measurements Enough said bl... | |
| Anybody else waiting for GaN and Purify to have a baby? reporting back on the mini gan 5top-line -- for 750 bucks it is very very good... but not close (and with very different voicing) to the agd audions in overall performance, i would say perhaps 60-70% of the way there to the really superb agd’si ha... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @tvad @verdantaudio Regarding performance, my M3 does not have the network card. The M1 SE has the network card. That’s a significant data point, and could go a long way to explaining differences in sonic characteristics between the M3 and M1 SE.... | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and i would agree the h390-590 are voiced slightly on the warm side of neutral (but without tube-like midrange ’bloom’, just smoothness and luscious tonality), and the treble is definitely on the restrained side but still with excellent detail and viv... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @chorus Bottom line:The best is yet to come. And for 1/2 the price of today.So, if you can wait you will be rewarded.If you can't wait buy the Bricasti !haha - unfortunate corollary... 'in the long term we are all dead' 😩 😩 😩 | |
| Doge 7 tube DAC quick report back, i am part done doing comparisons, can report on the followingsystem context/caveats first - -- using the doge 7 vs a-m tubador 3se vs ank dac 4.1 all using xlr outputs, stock tube sets, vs long term references sonnet morpheus an... | |
| Anyone have experience with Octave integrated amps? is your hegel h390 new? it improves substantially with break in... as in over a month or two of consistent use...it is a good sounding unit... trulyoctave is very very good gear... but i would advise you don’t give up on the hegel if it hasn’t bro... | |
| How long does Class A have? and i am so naive... i thought this was a site for high end audio and music...mosty old men here, evidently don’t care much about leaving a healthy planet for future generations, oh wellisn’t the new john mayer album nice? | |
| Helping a friend build a new system @arafiq search my old posts discussing the fritz carrera be i tried (and bought)@jjss49 Thanks for providing the links to what’s currently on sale. That was super helpful. My friend really likes the VTL and VPI amps. What are your thoughts on long... | |
| Calling out spatial audio m3 sapphire owners! the negative post below is one data point on spatials... i suggest op go to audio circle where there is a dedicated spatial section, many many users overjoyed with their purchases of m3 sapphires and lively discussion on how to get the best out of... |