kingbarbuda
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| Maggies with a subwoofer system - optimization? @tom8999 @millercarbon Tom, I have a pair of Magnepan 1.7i on my solid state system driven by a pair of Bryston 28B3 monoblocks. As for lengthening the life of your Maggies? I think that is overthinking things. As for the bass, if you are like me,... | |
| Tube Preamp - What to buy? @tvad @millercarbon I need to jump in and provide an alternative viewpoint. I own a Raven Blackhawk 3.1. It is a terrific integrated amp. Not only is it driving my 88dB 4Ohm Magico A3 towers super well. But I also have high level sub cables attach... | |
| Amp keeps shutting off I had a Schiit Vidar used as a monoblock go into protection mode when driving a Magnepan 1.7i speaker. Granted I was playing Jeff Beck loud. Still there is not enough headroom on that amp. Long since sold the Vidars. They were ultimately replaced ... | |
| Tube Preamp - What to buy? Unless you can get one of the above name brand pieces used you can see if you can get something from the Backert labs line used. But all that may be a stretch. Integrated would be a good way to go. But if you are happy with your amp, for a starter... | |
| Power Without getting into my power management situation, I will give some judicious recommendations:1. Agree if budget allows to put in a dedicated 20amp line direct from the breaker box to your listening room. 2. Agree with premium outlet but with non... | |
| marketing contact at Affirm financing for audio equipment As a sometime seller, Affirm is unattractive as compared to PayPal Credit. A seller gets charged nothing extra if the buyer uses PayPal Credit. However, if the Seller selects Affirm as an option for buyers to use, the Seller will pay minimum 8% on... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? Elon Musk. | |
| Nicks or McVie..... Christine McVie hands down! | |
| Streamer question As a former owner of an Innuos Zenith Mk3, I believe that the combined Roon core server/streamer market is very overpriced. I sold it, and replaced it with a fanless Azulle Inspire i5 mini PC with ROCK installed. I will be selling this soon, as f... | |
| Streamer question I have a few streamers: Orchard Audio PecanPi, LUMIN U1 Mini and a Sonore UltraRendu. I am happy with all of them. But granted I have a little bit of a complex chain from the switch to the streamer, but sometimes the UltraRendu loses its IP addres... | |
| Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with @OP I am not familiar with the impedance and sensitivity of your current speakers or Martin Logans. But I would say if your budget is approximately $3K for the amp it would be good to know if you plan to only use high sensitivity speakers or not b... | |
| Best dac under $2500 - comparing build quality and technologies @audioman58 At the approximate price point you are looking at for the AudioGD R7 Mk2 I would be interested in a comparison between it and an upper end Denafrips DAC such as the Venus, Terminator and/or Terminator Plus and also the Kitsune Holo May... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration At AXPONA I visited Butcher Block Acoustics. Very nice turntable platforms. But I may be incorrect here, but I am not certain there is a substantial difference between them and one of the thickest maple cutting boards you can find on eBay for a lo... | |
| PS auido Direct stream Dac PS Audio will be closing out production of the DS DAC this year and will be replacing it with its successor. No specs yet available TMK on the successor DAC. But the nice thing about the DS DAC is that you can download all the FPGA software releas... | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. @william53b This is all very interesting to me, as well. I have two systems. One has a pair REL T/9i and a pair Magnepan 1.7i which has evolved to be my solid state system. I also have a system with a pair of Magico A3s. I move the RELs around wh... |