jjss49
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| Mcintosh amplifiers and preamps @joekapahulu nice post! and well said i attended damien high in honolulu wayyyy back 🤙 many ways to find happiness in this pursuit of ours, key is to try different things, determine (and be honest with yourself about) what you like, don’t let ... | |
| Looking for a DAC under 2k the op posted his request for advice 1.5 years ago - think he might have gotten what he needs by now... 🤣 | |
| Luxman Knockoffs or Counterfeits? 120 volts needs stepped down to 100 volts for the Japanese amp. yep! | |
| Luxman Knockoffs or Counterfeits? i think it is so silly, so shortsighted to try to save a few bucks on such an expensive, complicated, hundred pound amp, ship it halfway around the world, then... use a step down transformer every day, and then... risk no warranty support if it is... | |
| Cables to settle brightness no argument on the ideal but not many of us live in an ideal world that's why having cables to subtly shade the tonality of a system is still useful in the task of hifi system building to achieve a high level of musical happiness | |
| 100% USA designed & made DAC denafrips oh shoot, wrong thread 🤣 | |
| If you’ve heard an iFi Zen stream, anything better under $1k? my take, my understanding (second hand from reading/thinking, not from my own ears as i have never had a node w lps upgrade) is that the power supply mod addresses only one aspect of the node’s (necessary) cost engineering, which is the cheap and ... | |
| Aurender just like any aspect of the hifi system building game, people speak about their journey, their experience, their system -- with a certain baseline of expectations, skill, experience and budget people find happiness and excellent sound at many var... | |
| Couple of OCC Speaker Cable Options there are many usa or north american based value oriented cable makers that make good stuff, and provide some level of comfort that what they sell is legit at least in terms of what they say it is (and isn’t) pine tree audio blue jeans cable ne... | |
| Couple of OCC Speaker Cable Options i personally would not trust ali express, even for purported high end copper speaker cables they are so famous for being purveyors of made in china knock off stuff that looks the part but has been decontented in a myriad of ways... | |
| Aurender aurender no doubt makes real good stuff, as does innuos, auralic, lumin, red rose, grimm and so on -- roon users can go the nuc/nucleus route with 'a la carte' endpoints such as sonore products, bypassing the expensive all-in-one boxes sold by the... | |
| Where did he go? i will add my voice to the many who have expressed their wish to see chakster return i have always enjoyed his contributions, a real analog aficianado and expert | |
| Why would a moderator remove a cable review? @soix i resemble that remark!!! | |
| Subwoofer fluttering it hates the sound of your system, it is doing its best to flap its wings and fly away 😂 seriously though... listen to yogi and fuzz | |
| What is Your End Game System? my end game system is in my listening room now it is my end game, at least till tomorrow  🤣 |