jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| OMG - Room Acoustics are Critical - WAF be dam-ed!. that is what they say about truisms... they are invariably true! | |
| DAC Merry Go 'Round- why I stopped at Weiss the weiss has an internal streamer function | |
| Integrated amp recommendation So what do you suggest at $1500? around 1500 used i would consider a hegel h95, a sony ta-1es, a primare i-30 or an ayre ax7e - all are currently listed on the ’other’ popular used equipment site these all offer top class purity of sound (and... | |
| Integrated amp recommendation op try to get to 1500 budget (used)... the performance steps up a notch over $1000 units ime | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @simao you likely know that you really can’t tell that a component change is better or worse for you unless you try it at some length in your own system hearing something sound good in another person’s system only provides a rough notion of the... | |
| MSB DAC's Popularity my analog dac with powerbase and renderer is one i have kept, simply superb sonically (very aptly named 😄), ergonomically outstanding (extra line input and preamp volume control, and maybe the world’s best remote control... ) | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? +1 @ghdprentice like anything in this hobby or others, in life in general -- spending big money to obtain an excellent desired outcome needs to be accompanied by suitable knowledge and experience -- those without the money and/or knowledge wil... | |
| Which preamps use 6922/6DJ8 tubes? Conrad-Johnson ET5: This preamp uses two 6922 tubes and has a minimalist design with a high-quality volume control. It has received many positive reviews for its musicality and detail. having owned an et-5 for several years, i can attest it use... | |
| A new amp for my Harbeth SLH5 speakers hegel h100 is a very old hegel - i have found modern hegels very good with the harbeths, especially the h390, with a richer but still very pure tone and very silky treble... but a listener used to a tube amp at work may still find the sound too cl... | |
| Which preamps use 6922/6DJ8 tubes? i think this is called the tail wagging the dog | |
| Requesting upgrade advice @agrogon tough call between going to ref10 phono stage vs the ref 6 linestage hard to know which will make more of a difference, though just a guess, knowing the arc stuff pretty well, the ls26 to ref 6 move may yield more of a step change (mor... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? just getting an early rise on president's day morning 🤣🤣🤣 | |
| Is a noisy tube a bad sounding tube STOP the audio neurosis behavior-you don't listen with an ear pressed against the speaker. what? that's not how we are supposed to listen???? oh man.... 🤣😆 | |
| Advice or experience with shipping speakers using freight companies yes indeed i used freightquote/ch robinson ltl trucking to bring me my big maggies from the midwest - got the job done well but was not cheap.... emphasis on: not cheap 🤣 | |
| After Nordost Superflatline i would concur that nordost ribbon type speaker cables do lean out the mids and bass compared to comparable level cables of other designs remember... what the music sounds like is a composite of changes in the whole frequency range... many after ... |