kennyc
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| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) a lot of that tube color and help warm up the very accurate PSI monitors Generally speaking, high-end tube preamps are striving to be more realistically neutral with some tube warmth. Nowadays, If one wants heavy tube warmth, they would usually... | |
| Roon Nucleus Titan Upgrade Offer I’m having a very hard time understanding the advantages of the Titan vs Nucleus+, is it just faster and a nicer case? I’m simply interested in sonic performance and if no improvement, then the upcharge to the Titan seems not worth it. | |
| Should I cash in? Notable DACs (prices not up to date): 2.3 Doge 7 MkII tube DAC *2.6 Ferrum Wandla - HR competes w 10k DACs +1.2 HYPSOS power supply 2.7 LAiV Harmony DAC 3.0 Musician Aquarius - sounds like a $5k DAC 4.5 Wired4Sound DAC... | |
| power amp ideas for less than $3000 Odyssey Audio | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? I’m of the camp of “the entire audio chain matters”. It’s not pre vs amp, but rather work on the weak links in one’s audio chain | |
| Great Interview- +1 @soix musicians are NOT AUTOMATICALLY = high-end audiophiles, but their are some high-end manufacturers who are musicians | |
| why balanced power last before component? I also have EquiTech and was wondering about alternative conditioners, nice to know can daisy chain and can add before EquiTech. | |
| SEEKING A NEW AUDIO RACK Maybe Pangea, Salamander, or homemade with maple shelves. | |
| Which does a better job of grounding your system Entreq products or Shunyata Altaira ? OP, have you considered Synergistic Research or CAD grounding products as well? Both reportedly make notable improvements. | |
| Morrow Audio Speaker Cables Congrats! | |
| ultrasound record cleaning machine damaged my records After such a lengthy ordeal, glad you found the solution | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? If I had to choose only 1, analog for superior sonics. But I’d refuse to choose because I want and have both. Tie between turntable excellent sonics and streaming convenience including discovering new music via Roon, Tidal/Qobuz. Spent consider... | |
| SnubWay Question Thread I don’t mind this thread either. I appreciate honesty in trying to help others vs shilling to making a sale, giving vs receiving. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers Sorry, withdraw Harbeth suggestion which needs more breathing room. Maybe start another thread like “Looking for nearfield speakers for 11x12 room” https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-there-any-speakers-for-nearfield-listening-that-sou... | |
| MBL 101E What will be the fair offer? I think "fair" is the incorrect way to look at this transaction because "fairness" implies some sort of rule book we should all be following. Sure we have our own rulebook as to what we would judge to be reasonable... |