jond
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| What are you listening to right now? Just got back from Italy last night way jetlagged and up early with the day off, streaming Pat Metheny "The Unity Sessions" from Tidal Masters. | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? Well glad to hear you are being honest with yourself, it may sound great but is it better? Or just different? You own it so take sometime let the Gingnur burn in do some do some A/B comparisons and let your ears be the guide. And don't worry about... | |
| Tachyons?? Really? Totally unrelated and apologies for the non audio post but I was unaware that teleportation is apparently a real thing.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/ | |
| Tachyons?? Really? And we have some new ones coming get ready!https://www.sciencealert.com/the-large-hadron-collider-just-identified-5-new-subatomic-particles | |
| I need a new DAC! Advice/Recommendations? Lots of good Dacs out there in and around that price range as you can see from all the various recommendation. My suggestion, buy used and buy smart so you can audition, resell without a loss, and audition until you find a Dac you love. It’s easy ... | |
| What are the more subtle sounding tube preamps? @ebm damn man you must be exhausted after that long post! Nice job! :-p | |
| sap quartet speakers Really good speakers Deja Vu Audio used to sell them and really cool looking as I remember. In terms of a market they are little known and would probably be tough to sell. If you like them just keep them. Or try an auction and set the reserve pric... | |
| $10K-15K short list? Audio Note AN/E great sounding full range speakers easy to drive and place in-room and within your budget. | |
| What are the more subtle sounding tube preamps? CJ Classic is definitely on the warmer and darker end of the spectrum. If you want rich and organic but not dark try Audio Note. | |
| Cable manufacturers? How do you define 'manufacture their own cable'? Almost no one draws their own wire, but plenty of manufacturers do a lot more than throw on some jacketing and terminations. There is winding and geometry, dialectrics, shielding, and plenty more. S... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... It sounds like many of us are saying the same thing just differently. Mastering quality is a order of magnitude difference. The difference between 16/44 and say 24/192 is correspondingly relatively minor. | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic @glennewdick great looking system! Curious what you were driving the AN/E's with when you had them? With stuff like this I find it's often less about watts and more about a stiff power supply. | |
| Upgrading path from Merlin VSM black magic Audio Note AN/E it does everything you are looking for sounds great and is perfectly suited to your amps. Also well under your budget though you can upgrade internal parts and spend as much as you want. I have a pair of AN/J's on the way myself, t... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... I would agree 16/44.1 is plenty good but I would disagree that newer dacs necessarily do it better than good older dac. Currently listening to an Audio Note Dac-3 Signature circa 1995 playing back redbook and its the best sound I've ever heard in ... | |
| Tube Amp Pricing While there are plenty of tube amps that one could call over priced the reality is it's hard to make a truly good tube amp cheaply. Parts cost can be quite high transformers in particular can be quite costly and are critical to an amps overall qua... |