kalali
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| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? Last time I looked, you can get a real nice new transport plus a real nice new R2R DAC for the price of a high end old CDP like Levinson, etc. The combination that piqued my interest the most was a Cambridge Audio CXC paired with a Denafrips Ares.... | |
| What speakers to go with my new Marantz 2265? I personally don't think there's any (sound quality) advantage in pairing vintage speakers with vintage receivers, maybe just esthetically more pleasing. I've had my Pioneer SX-980 driving my JBL L40s and ADS L510s for many many years and loved th... | |
| Don Sach's pre amp soix, great question. Been meaning to ask that too. Looks like the DS2 uses the SP14 basic design but with the tubes mounted on top. Couldn't find a price for the VTA-SP14 though. Sounds like a great deal if its actually half the DS2 price. | |
| Budget MM Phono Cartridge Recommendation Thanks. What specs are useful when comparing cartridge performance? I was initially looking at channel separation dB - higher the better, but that doesn't necessarily seem to track relative quality among cartridges, even within the same brand. | |
| Sonus Faber Venere 2.5 amplifier Recommendation Depending on your budget, at $2K a Conrad Johnson MF2275 should give you what you want. | |
| Incredible deal on incredible amp I have only bought and sold very few items here but I think people who are looking for certain brands/models don’t care as much about the price, of course within limits. In some cases a very low price may even come across as a red flag. If it were... | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering "call a member of this forum a troll simply because hes not buying the BS Tekton is dishing is shamefull"missioncoonery, shameful is with one l but that aside, whether you agree our not, you meet the troll criteria. Not because of expressing your ... | |
| Speaker cable/Power cord/Interconnect Interference No hum no nothing, just curious about general wisdom. | |
| Replace Dell Laptop with Streamer? Which one? I tend to agree with ejr1953 in that your laptop may not be the culprit. I have a Bluesound Node2 which I use regularly for streaming Tidal HiFi but I have also streamed Tidal using my laptop via a Cambridge Audio DACmagic Plus using USB. My lapto... | |
| Zu def 4 are they the best speaker made? The single driver high efficiency speakers have a sound that is unique to that design. Some like it some don't. I have only enjoyed them in smaller, more intimate, near field low volume listening settings. The larger multi driver power hungry spea... | |
| Budget MM Phono Cartridge Recommendation Gentlemen/ladies, thank you for your input. Appreciate it. I have been completely neglecting my analog rig - also includes an Akai GX-4000D reel to reel, and mostly trying to make my (separate) streaming/CD set up sound good. I spent this last wee... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 "Sorry that you do not consider my expertise sufficient, perhaps it is not. No hard feelings!"dlcockrum, that didn't even cross my mind...! It was an honest question. | |
| Need a preamp with tone controls! Tone controls notwithstanding and as a tube example, I've heard the A21 paired with a Conrad Johnson PV-10BL and it sounded great. A bit high on the gain but otherwise excellent. Switching from an SS preamp really warmed up the tone nicely. | |
| Don Sach's pre amp Congratulations. a-shah, if possible, kindly please share your experience with a comparison between the VTA-SP14 and the Don Sach's Model2. These two and the Mapletree preamp(s) are on my short list of tube preamps when I get ready to pull the tri... | |
| Mark Levinson 23.5 You didn't mention how you measured the temperature but assuming a temperature gun, its possible to have 10 degrees F margin for error, depending on how you hold/point the gun or the specific point of measurement. Just a possibility. |