jjss49
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| Holo Audio May DAC @snackeyp The Holo Audio May DAC 3 won the Product Of The Year in Stereophile this month. I couldn’t find a web link to the article. It will probably be up in a week or two. I read this in the print edition.so does it sound even better today knowi... | |
| Good to remember ... how to tell what sounds better my takeaway is that as essential as properly conceived and controlled a/b testing (volume equalized etc etc) is to elucidate sq differences among pieces of gear, there is much much more to it than that -- if the objective is to determine which is ... | |
| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? @larry5729 I have always wondered why people go with tube amplifiers rather than going with more up to date technologies. There must be a reason why. I wonder what the sound difference is? larry - we are not deaf :) | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? @deep_333 laughed out loud reading your postaudiophools are not born, they are made... this is the land of $20,000 power cables after all... there was adam, there was then eve, there was then the audiophool | |
| Anyone Using Harbeths with Grilles off? @dave543210 i agree, there is a saying, when you are finally done trying all the speakers out there, likely you will have a set of harbethsi think there is a good degree of truth to this... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? @thyname Hey @audio2design... or @dannad, or @atdavid, or whatever... it did not take you long after they banned your most recent moniker (Dannad) to resurface again here. Why on earth keep insisting over and over and over coming back here to spre... | |
| Is 1990's equipment vintage? 90’s porsches are certainly vintageotoh skyfi in new york posted an ad selling a ARC VT-100 Mk2 called it vintage... i shook my head... but maybe they are right | |
| Poor Fritz Uhhh. It might be a surprise to Fritz that he is dead. it is this sad thread that needs to die... | |
| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? @gochurchgo i can strongly recommend the don sachs unit - aside from the superb sound, he can specifically use the correct capacitors to do proper gain and impedance matching to your ampdon likes tubed power amps though... in one recent exchange i... | |
| ISO Advise on choosing Ayre or Bat power amp the ayre is excellent, sorry i have not heard the batif any knock on ayre's is compared to other top ss amps the deep bass can be a touch lighton the other hand ayre's have tremendously low noise floor, notes come out of deep darkness, very beauti... | |
| Toslink opglass fiber cables better than plastic element onessearch 'glass toslink digital cables' several sources will pop up, prices are reasonable (but more than the cheapie plastic core jobs) | |
| Do active speakers interest you? Also, let's talk directivity i really like my devialet phantoms (stereo pair) in a room where i don't want other componentslovely sound, tremendous bass response, very good imaging | |
| Constant noisy tubes maybe go solid state? @gochurchgo first of all, glad you have quiet tubes in the unit working now... that’s goodsecond, brent is a good guy, good vendor, bends over backwards to get it right... bear in mind tubes get shipped in little boxes that usps etc love to throw ... | |
| Amplifier warm up @vegasears have not heard of cool down concept for ampsnot sure it matters, but pretty sure it doesn't hurt | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? @northman if you haven't read these...https://www.mapleshadestore.com/upgrades_speakerplacement.phphttps://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/near-field-listening-acquired-taste-or-proper-paradigm.886/http://grizzlyaudio.blogspot.com/2015/08/hifi-near... |