kingbarbuda
Responses from kingbarbuda
| MusicDirect Thanks. They are in Chicago. I am not in Chicago and they are not in my town. Please see above. Thanks. | |
| MusicDirect @lowrider57 please define “your area”. However, MD does not have any such facility in my town. I have been to MD and have seen their warehouse. Everything from them appears to come from their Bryn Mawr Ave offices and warehouse. | |
| MusicDirect I buy only select open box or other special items with a coupon code from them. But believe me, I do buy the majority of my gear elsewhere. It’s like they are charging me an extra 4% over the posted price. And as we have seen above, if you live ou... | |
| Streaming for beginner I have a similar setup as you with a DS Memory Player and DS DAC with the Ethernet Bridge II card. I could be wrong but I think it is a Roon endpoint and not a streamer. Someone can confirm. I have an Innuos Zenith MkIII and Phoenix routed via Eth... | |
| To venture back into vinyl or not,...that is the question. Unless you have hundreds of albums you want to revisit or have nostalgia for vinyl, I would spend you money elsewhere. Vinyl isn’t just about the sound. It is about the nostalgia of our childhoods when that was the only way to listen to recorded m... | |
| When to Poweroff amps and preamps I have two systems and leave the PS Audio PowerPlants on for both. But I power off my tube integrated when not in use. I leave on my Pass Labs preamp. But everything else that is SS and can go on standby mode I put in standby mode. On my headphone... | |
| Rel vs the world I am happy with my RELs. They integrate well with their high level connectors. I think they are well priced for what you get. | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? Depending on budget either the Schiit Freya+ or a PrimaLuna preamp. | |
| Offer / counter-offer? Audiogon rules Agree with many above. If you decline an offer or decline and counter offer, the offer you received is gone. You declined it. No obligation exists on the buyers part and you have no right to it as a seller. Good luck. | |
| Bryston - Stereo or Monoblock Hi @wegenert. The Jeff Beck album was one of his latest albums and I was streaming it. I didn’t have a device to measure the sound pressure. But it was LOUD. Like if I had a neighbor in and adjoining room they would have complained. If my wife was... | |
| Bryston - Stereo or Monoblock @mvrooman1526 I went down the road you are on and I am in a good position to advise. I started out with a pair of Magnepan 1.7i with a pair of Vidar Monoblocks. I quickly moved away from the Vidars when my left monoblock went into thermal shutdown... | |
| 700.00 speakers new or used For that money, definitely the Magnepan LRS! Then when you save some more $ get one or two REL T series subwoofers and you are all set! | |
| Looking for a front end streamer only. I spoke to the Wolf rep, or perhaps the owner at the 2019 Axpona. The product seemed good. However, the track record was not large. As for my systems, I have the Innuos Zenth Mk3 with Phoenix on one system and a Lumin U1 Mini with SBooster power o... | |
| Mahavishnu fans only I am more a fan (and a big fan) of the post-Mahavishnu through current, John McLaughlin work. | |
| What have you been working on in 2020? My projects:1. Tired to build a high quality DH Labs and Wattgate power cable. I need to work on that. It’s not quite right. 2. Added two REL T/9i subs to my Maggie 1.7i system. What a humongous improvement! Also added another (1) REL T/9i I got f... |