jpan
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| DarTzeel’s new direction @tdudnyk I think he’s incensed that his competitors are offering discounts which, in turn, put a bit dent in his business. My educated guess is that he misread the market and misunderstood the value of the channel. Clearly his competition has enou... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that we’re arguing over PRaT. Look if you can’t grok what PRaT is then maybe consider your room and how it’s messing up what you think is the sound of your amazing system. | |
| Component matching expertise - how do you do it? Take a look at Srajan Ebaen’s 6moons audio reviews. For example check out his speaker reviews for the Cube Audio Nenuphar v2 and Qualio IQ. Two speakers made by the same principals that have two different approaches, requiring different considerat... | |
| RSX Technologies (Roger Skoff) I have his Beyond Phono and Power Cords. Super happy with them. I tried similarly priced from Synergistic, Shunyata and Audioquest. RSX sounded/worked the best in my system I haven’t tried his speaker cables. I use Soundsmith Fidelium and I’m com... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it @bbarten +100 "You'd be surprised how often the creators of the products that have these issues also have no idea what's going on. It's because we've created systems we can't truly fully understand." Two words: Open Source. | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. Streaming, free or by subscription, is one of the last nails in the audiophile coffin. It changed, forever, the dynamics of music listening in a set environment. The world of 2CH audiophiles is gone and it’s not coming back. Headphones are a d... | |
| First impressions: Silversmith Fidelium interconnects I've been using the Fidelium speaker cables for a year and half. I recently picked up two set of the ICs both RCA for runs between phono and line stage and line and amps. Love them! I reached out directly to Jeffrey @ Silversmith. | |
| Help with tone arm geometry and bass What @macg19 said. JR analyzed two of mine (MSL Signature Gold and Hana Umami Red) and set up my table. (Luckily we’re both in the Bay Area.) One of the best & nicest guys in the biz. Give him a call & he’ll set you straight. | |
| I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do? If you can afford to buy them new, then buy them new. This seems easy to me. I think the more important question to ask yourself is why you posted about speakers in the amp/preamp section. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? What @deep_333 said. +100 | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? @scm I’m with you. I’ve had preamps from Pass and Herron. Very good stuff. But, I’ll stick with my EM/IA Remote Autoformer (pure silver) all day, every day. When I put that sucker in my system it was one of those glorious audiophile days. In th... | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? What @mijostyn said: Channel D Seta L20 | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? Most definitely. Interesting to see the different reasons for/against. | |
| Quandary I think you made the right choice. Just as you stated: it’s one thing to charge for a demo (and we can argue over the amount), but it’s another to charge and not give you what you want. That’s weird to me. You cannot have a successful demo (of any... | |
| Music first or sound first? Well it’s the qualifier “in listening to their rigs“ that changes my answer. With that it is always the sound over the music. There are many ways, for me, to enjoy music. But when it comes to my rig, I want it to sound like nothing else, as if it... |