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| Vandersteen 3A sigs, whats wrong here. i would say the 3a sigs have very good but short of excellent basscareful positioning and side/rear wall reinforcement mattersas is using a good powerful solid state amp... i had wonderful response from a hegel amp, known for its outstanding dampi... | |
| Schiit "Gumby" owner considering Ayre Codex -- advice? @rach_fan nice you are getting a codex to try... people can spew all they want about which is better, bottom line you need to find out for yourself in your system, as both sound good, just different presentationthat been said, a few points to you-... | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget opfor a useful recommendation you should disclose how you feel your system sounds now, and what you would like to improve - be as specific as possible | |
| Keith Jarrett kj and charlie haden - jasmine and last dance (2 separate albums)bye bye blackbird (trio)out of towners (trio)my foolish heart (trio)la scala (solo)vienna concert (solo)enjoy 🙏 | |
| MQA Dac playing non MQA sources @canoe if you spend a little time, describe the rest of your system (be specific) and room, and musical preferences, the type of sound you like (lively, smooth, warm, super clear/crisp etc etc) we here would be happy to make specific suggestions f... | |
| Recommendations for modern integrated with tone & balance controls other than Mcintosh i would second anton99's thought about a schiit lokisimple, quite inexpensive, 4 bands so more sonic adjustability than a standard set of tone controlsabsolutely minimal sonic penalty placing it in line... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp i run an art 9 (among other lomc’s), feel same way as you that i prefer ss phono stage for low noise, drive and linearity, and i put tubes downstream in the chain to get that goodnessfor ss phono stages, i have been through 10-12 in my time, my fa... | |
| Why do you need so much power? @boomerbillone The same reason people drive 250+ horsepower cars - effortless performance. The Emotiva has WAY more power than you will need, so it will never strain. Another BIG factor is that Emotiva’s are reasonably priced.while there is some t... | |
| Totam signature one need advice agree w troytotems demand power and clean smooth signal with no harshnesssuggest a hegel integrated unit, get the best used one you can afford, will match well with what totems need to sound excellenti have no affiliation to hegel other than being... | |
| Speakers for Small Room Primarily Listening to 1950s R&B, R&R many many many choices... see recommended sections of audio publications for monitor speakersif you want recommendations here, you should say more about your budget you should plan to get a subwoofer too if you want to hear the music in its proper... | |
| MQA Dac playing non MQA sources opLooks like the Node will play MQA if needed say with Tidal. That being said I can come out of the Node to a external DAC then to the McIntosh and the quality outstanding - Right?short answer is yesthe node 2i does mqa decoding but it has a ’star... | |
| Primer on digital to audio conversion from Schiit, and more... sorry for the typo in the title guys... can’t fix it now...i meant "digital to analogue", obviously... 🙄 | |
| Why do you need so much power? the person suggesting the 500 wpc emotiva for your tannoy's is either self serving or he is an idiot | |
| MQA Dac playing non MQA sources there will be no problem with an mqa-able dac playing non-mqa musican mqa capable dac simply has the ability to sense a digital fed signal with mqa encoding, in which case it will do some additional processing to take advantage of mqa ... if no mq... | |
| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? @hilde45 one additional, central point i would make (in reply to some other comments in this nice thread you have started) is that since i decided to tackle streaming this time last year since covid started, i very much believe that streamed music... |