jond
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| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Sorry to hear of your posting and other troubles ozzy and thanks for the update. Obviously you've put together a very complicated system there with many moving parts. I am guessing it would take substantial time and tinkering to get it sounding th... | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Come on ozzy how do they sound already?? Don't leave us all hanging here! :P | |
| More discrete R2R Mulibit dacs. Speaking of R2R just picked up a 20 year old Audio Note Dac-3 Signature which uses a K grade BB PCM63 chip which is I believe R2R. It sounds utterly fantastic. | |
| More discrete R2R Mulibit dacs. Cool looking Dac but seriously Denafrips? That might be one of the worst names for audio gear ever :-) | |
| Short Lifetime for 6NS7 Tubes Perhaps try using a variac to run your preamp off? I was having voltage issues and high rates of tube failure and got a variac for my amp, I run it at 115 and it's resulted in much longer tube life all around. They are easy to find and cheap on ebay. | |
| SS preamp with tube amp @greginnh what do you feel you're missing from your Esoteric? Did a quick google search and that looks like a pretty special integrated. I'm a tube guy all the way but have a certain fondness for Japanese SS from companies like Esoteric and Accuph... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? @andyz I know what you mean so happy about my AN dac-3 Signature now wondering how much better the Balanced might be? Happy for now, very happy, but good to know there's an upgrade path! | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? Charles to be honest the AN keeps getting better by the day I haven't been able to take it out yet! I I am pretty convinced the AN is considerably better than the Yamamoto but hearing being fickle I will give the Yammie one more listen before I de... | |
| Best standalone music server? @soundsrealaudio Jim I hope you include yourself in "this audiogon bunch" :-p | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection dbpoweramp also has a file converter program you can convert files between various formats as your needs change. Super fast easy and convenient. | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection reubent,I ripped about 800 cds to my internal drive in batches and then transferred those to an external HD via USB. I've since transferred all of that drive to a NAS and play back through an Auralic Aries Mini outputting to my AN dac. I've accumu... | |
| Best budget integrated choices Well looks like that Marantz 8003 sold but I am sure other good integrateds will come up for sale. | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection Yes to flac and I had great success using the cd-rom drive in my laptop and dbPoweramp ripping software. Super easy to use and inexpensive! Good luck! | |
| break in I personally don't really pay attention to break in, I pretty much need to have my system playing from the time I get home til the time I go to bed unless I'm watching something. So if i drop a new piece in and don't love it I let it play for a fe... | |
| Best budget integrated choices If you're ok with used, and at your budget you should be, this looks like a good deal and Marantz is typically voiced on the warm side:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/solid-state-marantz-pm-8003-integrated-amp-price-reduced-2017-02-0... |