jjss49
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| Galion TS120 seems to me the answer to all this nonsense and brain damage is simply this... ... but then again, i get it, some folks will contort themselves into pretzels and jump through rings of fire to save a few bucks | |
| Stereo or monoblocks don’t worry about stereo amp or mono blocks, that decision in and of itself is a red herring 98+% of the time focus on getting a good stereo amp that will drive your speakers well and sound the way you will like | |
| getting into streaming watch this and the successive videos for the basics | |
| Magnepan 3.5r Owners needed.... No bass op did you move the speakers? placement relative to wall behind makes a huge difference in bass response due to potential for doubling or cancellation, given the dipole dispersion of the panels | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? having been a lifelong fan and owner of numerous big spendors, harbeths and proacs over the years, i would add that having the right amplification for each is (obviously) important in extracting the best performance from each, and also knowing how... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile good thread, lots of participation, many terrific points raised and discussed... very broad ranging a few patently ridiculous, thoughtless comments as well... to be expected all this should have each of us reconsider what enjoyment in this hobby... | |
| Tube amps - what 3 things… @atmasphere ralph, curious to know what is your take on auto biasing... now increasingly employed in high level tube amps, audio research’s newer amps for instance the feature certainly offers a major convenience factor for users, but what do y... | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps i have been looking for my answer to the op’s question for some 40 years, tried soooo many .... haven’t found it yet (last one i tried, recently, the decware open baffle zen with 15 in driver, was an abject disappointment to my ears) that said, i... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile listening to live music we enjoy is indeed useful in informing many of us what that really sounds like -- and helps ground our expectations for what our hifi’s should deliver... but just be careful to understand that much ’live’ music is being amp... | |
| Pass x260.8 v. Parasound JC1+? would help to know what nature of improvement the op seeks that would inform any educated answer to the question | |
| un-becoming an audiophile it bears saying that playing with equipment is also fun have said it many times here in various threads, there are numerous ways to enjoy any hobby, including this one key is to be honest with yourself, be self aware, realize whether, how, how m... | |
| Some more modern jazz piano trios the gold standard is of course bill evans’s trio, especially the seminal recordings with scott lafaro and paul motian in more recent times keith jarrett with gary peacock and jack dejohnette approach the prior standard (don’t skip the deer head i... | |
| Accuphase E5000 vs Gryphon Diablo 300 op given your two choices posed, and given your stated music preferences, as excellent as the accuphase gear is, i would choose the gryphon | |
| un-becoming an audiophile like many things in life, it is incumbent on us (ourselves, individually) to not ’lose the plot’, ’miss the forest from the trees’ or whatever idiom you care to use a great hifi is expressly for listening to music, for our enjoying music very muc... | |
| Selling on Audiogon op as stated by others... we as audiophiles (and retailers who serve them) should view ourselves as a community of like-minded, collectively invested hobbyists... we are above all else people that deserve fair and reasonable treatment on both sid... |