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| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? The idea that the Audiogon Bluebook is "reliable" is hilarious any source of data needs to be understood for what it is - reliability is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak a-gon bluebook tracks sales through the site over time... thus it ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil Less is More, is it a quality dac ? i would concur with what is covered in the last couple posts, given my own experience with schiit and denafrips dacs in the schitt line, i also felt the gumby was the sweet spot, just as i felt the pontus was that in the denafrips line yggy and ... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! @arafiq my memory is failing me a bit, not recalling if you are in texas, or are an east coaster (nc?) there are a couple nice used pair of maggies, in texas, available for local pickup... 1.7i as well as lrs ... on the ’other’ used gear site ... | |
| Warmer class D amps for magnepan? for those with interest in this subject here is a video worth watching peachtree ganfet amp rated @ 400 wpc ... driving maggies, compared to hegel h390 class ab stalwart with 250 wpc rating https://youtu.be/kNQHjNdnHgE | |
| Gustard R26 @soix I am an engineer. I have run testing labs and worked for the federal government, military, nuclear energy....I am trained in testing and evaluation. I have heard what I need to hear. i too chuckled when i read this... what an awful han... | |
| Warmer class D amps for magnepan? further thoughts on this topic - we know that maggies big and small are wonderfully accurate transducers, highly revealing of what is upstream of them, in this respect they are a superbly clear lens into the upstream system and the musical conten... | |
| Food: What does the typical audiophile eat? Humble pie …. good one @akg_ca brought a nice chuckle early on a sunday morning | |
| DAC for second system i enjoyed my time with a mojo dac, but ultimately i returned it to benjamin -- not because i didn’t like the sound, but because i wanted a dac that had variable volume to drive a power amp directly (in addition to sounding terrific) i felt the r2... | |
| Warmer class D amps for magnepan? i haven’t tried them all, by a long shot, but my suggestion would be to try a well designed gan-fet based power amp, rather than typical class d ones using ice purifi or hypex modules in my experience the good ganfet amps sound much closer to top... | |
| I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system....... @glm911 are you using the phono stage in your old pioneer? or do you have an outboard, separate phono preamp? | |
| The best part about MQA bankruptcy.. MQA is very good from my experience with a MSB DAC. this comment came up in a different but related thread i would concur, mqa content sounds simply lovely on my msb analog dac... but as i said there as well, i would only add that i think this... | |
| Considering A 20-40 Watt Stereo SET Amp @jbhiller good to see your handle back here posting hope you are well! | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! @mesch ahh yes tannoys, not klipsches...😁 please try a rel sub (or better, a pair) when you have a chance with the lil maggies -- i think you will love it for little maggies (or even large ones) it is in my experience quite transformative of t... | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? lol fair market value, like good sound, and tasty food -- exist entirely in the minds of the beholder | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? otoh money isn't everything... and it isn't everyone's top priority all the time |