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| Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty Streaming DAC A DAC is truly a very personal item when it comes to high end audio and how it synergizes with the rest of your system. I compared the Ayre QX-5 Twenty Streaming DAC to DCS, Cord Dave/Hugo, Weiss, MSB, Hegel's top DAC and others. All were outsta... | |
| Revel Salon 2’s (used) or new Magico A-3 (new) ?? Due to being down-ported, even in my less than perfect, smallish room, the Revel Salon 2 speakers beautifully disappear. For my room size, I drive the speakers with the very powerful and very high current Hegel H390 integrated amp with astonishing... | |
| Revel Salon 2’s (used) or new Magico A-3 (new) ?? Make no mistake, the Revel Salon 2s are still, after all these years, Stereophile Class A+ Recommended speakers for a reason, they're just that good!!! These speakers are still an absolute bargain at their retail price, let alone what you could g... | |
| Wilson Audio Sabrina X vs Revel Ultima Salon 2 The Revel Salon 2 speakers get my vote!!! This is one magnificent speaker system!!! I get to hear the over 48K a pair Wilson speakers at my local audio shop all the time, and I like my Salon 2 speakers better. That's what makes the Salon 2 spea... | |
| Revel Salon 2 vs Vandersteen 5a Carbon Revel Salon 2 is still one of the best speakers in the world, especially for the money!!! To this day, when I go to High End Audio Shows, or to any of my local High End Audio shops, I very rarely hear any other speaker, regardless of price, that ... | |
| Ayre QX-5 vs Lumin vs dCS Bartok Recently, at my local high end audio shop, I got a chance to have an extensive audition of both the Ayre QX-5 Twenty and the DCS Bartok DACs, in the same room, and in then same great, ultra high end system. This audio shop is an authorized deale... | |
| Magnepan LRS compared to the .7 or the 1.7i ? Some have described their experiences with having difficulties integrating subwoofers with their Magnepan speakers. Well, based on my own personal experience, it's not so difficult to beautifully and seamlessly integrate a sub or a pair of subs w... | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? My personal experience with the Magnepan 1.7i speakers. I auditioned the 1.7i's with several high powered SS amps and they all, of course, made the panels jump with all that wattage running through them, and they all sounded great in their own wa... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 i - Amp suggestions Recently, I visited my local High End Audio Dealer to audition the Magnepan 1.7i speakers. The dealer set up the speakers in a system using a Prima Luna Evo 200 tubed integrated amp to drive speakers. To my surprise, the Evo 200 drove the speake... |