kalali
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| Which DAC as a preamp? From someone who’s actually been designing preamp/amps for almost half a century instead of just reading the specs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHl8F9amyY4 | |
| Atma Sphere deserves praise I unfortunately don’t own any of Ralph’s great products, yet, but his technical contributions to this community are truly appreciated. I’ve learned a lot by just reading his posts and owe him a debt of gratitude. A real class act. | |
| Suggest some integrateds for my Monitor Audio Silver 2 NAD C 388 used or C 368 new. It’ll probably make your CD player sound better too when using its digital input. | |
| Tube pre amp Looks like the budget is around $700usd given the reference to the Vincent SA31.In that price range, options for decent new tube preamps are a little limited but in addition to the Freya suggested above, I’d add Mapletree Audio preamp. Its a two c... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! I was under the impression that the Pass article was specifically regarding full range single drivers being driven by a solid state voltage source amplifier with a very high damping factor. The so-called resistor trick mimics a lower damping facto... | |
| Stands, to couple, or not to couple, contradicting products and positive reviews How about hanging the speakers from the ceiling?! | |
| Recommendations for CDP < $300 https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9396e-lexicon-rt-10-cd-sacd-players | |
| Speaker driver sizes - pros and cons I don’t think you’ll find a 12” driver that is actually considered full range. Those larger drivers are normally used for PA applications and their frequency response is within the midrange band. Anything larger than an 8” driver will require a cr... | |
| Maggie 1.7i vs Marin Logan Electromotion ESL - Which is less critical for room placement? I’ve owned the MMGi and currently own ML Aeriusi and neither seem to be very location sensitive in regards to the sidewalls. However, the depth and realism of the soundstage is directly proportional to the distance they are from the rear walls. Th... | |
| DACs with a budget of $800 ben, in my experience, all things being equal, the biggest factor contributing to the soundstage depth is the distance of the speakers from the wall behind them, regardless of the speakers’ brand or model. With open baffles the affect is even more... | |
| Preamp for Burmester power amp Why would anyone design an amplifier with only an 1,880ohm input impedance? It makes very little sense unless they want to force the buyer to (also) purchase their supposedly matching preamp. Just curious. | |
| DACs with a budget of $800 The NAD c165Bee is actually a very good preamp. It doesn't have the somewhat exaggerated midrange glow of my tube preamp in my other system but its quite balanced top to bottom with good soundstage and air. Your tube Blue Circle might give you tha... | |
| What is needed to build a tube amp and what non? Is this in English? Please take a minute and rewrite so we can understand what you’re talking about.... | |
| Newbie with Tidal question. Look into the Meridian Explorer 2 as a reasonable option to get a good sound from your laptop for streaming Tidal. | |
| Help with streaming Tidal's Master tracks "will the tidal masters really sound much better?"Not a can of worms at all...They definitely sound better as long as the streamer/DAC can support MQA. Simple answer.As for the set up, sorry but computer sourced audio is a big hassle. Unless you h... |