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| What are you streaming tonight? @16f4 Tuck and Patti bring back fond memories. I just started dating this great woman, and she told me she really liked Tuck and Patti. The next month they performed at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA and I surprised her with tickets. Must have wo... | |
| Entry Level Tube Preamp or Higher Quality Used Model? audio research recently changed hands (again), but back to old guard folks, so i would imagine the arc ethic and care will live on as much as practically possiblebut bill j and leonard and others we knew are gone (rip), there are newer folks that ... | |
| High end Class D amps? @mikem Class D done right can sound very goodthis is of course the correct answer... like any technology/format it is in the implementation quality, skill of the designer, the care in the voicingover 300 posts in this thread... much heat very litt... | |
| Ayre Codex vs. ESS SABRE ES9010K2M (Yamaha AS801) if the rest of your system - i.e. your source and your speakers - is resolving, of true hi fi quality, the ayre codex will sound vastly superior | |
| DAC finalist please help about once a month, every month, a new 'what is a good, natural sounding dac' thread comes up... obviously, this is ground that has been previously covered... i did a 30-dac shootout earlier this year and in prior threads i reported the following... | |
| what are your cartridge set up go to feickert and mint lpthen i went well tempered labs, so now, nothing 😁 | |
| New Synergistic Research Record Mat https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/turntable/pht/this is my favoritei have bought some and taped them each ear's tragus... ALL music sounds better now 🤣 | |
| New Synergistic Research Record Mat @testpilotwith their fuses, cables, other paraphenalia, if there is 80-90% margin you can take a decent return rate and still come out well ahead... lots of folks won’t be hassled to return and chase for refund once they have it in hand... they ar... | |
| Spatial M3 Triode Master Preamp/amp choices if you want to avoid tubes just get a hegel rost or h160 or h190 be done... absolutely brilliant sounding ss amps that will grip the spatial’s woofers and be transparent and free of any ss harshnessit will not give you tube sweetness but it will p... | |
| DAC finalist please help @grossman616 you can remove the mini tube tube adapter to run 6922 tubes in the tubador - this doubles your gain at the dac output... you can then tube roll and that is fun and good to manage tonality to your preferenceTubes used in the DAC are 59... | |
| Recommendation for a replacement speaker cable canare 4s11 star quad is very good very cost effectiveso is the tuneful cable orange/black twisted belden cable made in brooklyn that can be bought on ebay - really excellent neutral/slightly warm cablei did not get along with kimber pbj/silver st... | |
| Entry Level Tube Preamp or Higher Quality Used Model? i looked in the classifieds, seems like 1500 won’t buy a recent/good enough cj or arc linestage...here is an option - have it checked out thoroughly - if it is good this thing is excellenthttps://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649600657-sonic-frontie... | |
| DAC finalist please help i mentioned the mhdt’s and codex due to the op’s stated budgetthe top audio mirror tubador (3se i think is the designation) is $2500 it is ever so slightly more refined/detailed than the mhdt orchard/istanbul/stockholm but the presentation is very... | |
| New Synergistic Research Record Mat the greed is palpablebut hey, pay more, put it on, it’ll sound better!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh | |
| Spatial M3 Triode Master Preamp/amp choices i agree w jackclayton makes lovely speakers but their efficiency ratings belie what is needed to make the speaker perform well... after all do see those two gigantic woofers? these babies need damping factor and control to make the speakers sound ... |