kingbarbuda
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? At least to start:Miles Davis Quintet - Freedom Jazz Dance - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5. | |
| Component isolation **Leaving to ask what would be the incremental benefit of *any* expensive vibration resolution solutions. | |
| Component isolation Hi all,This issue of vibration resolution and the science behind it can get overwhelming and out of proportion with the cost of mitigating it in my opinion. I certainly may be naive in this regard but I have used a cork mat on my turntable, the li... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock I had EPI 120s when I was a kid. Those things can rock! I am not an expert on the range available at that price level today, but for $2500 you can either get a pair of new in box ELAC UniFi UF-5 Towers, which I did own at one time. Excellent speak... | |
| First Watt SIT-3 proper speaker matches As I recall from a recent review of the First Watt SIT-3, they work well with speakers that are 4 ohm and have 88dB sensitivity. In the review, the reviewer raved about how the Magnepan .7i pair sounded. However, they have a 86dB sensitivity. I ha... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Not necessarily in this order. All vinyl:Pat Metheny: 80/81Stan Getz and JJ Johnson: Live at the Opera HouseMcCoy Tyner: New York ReunionKeith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen: My SongPat Metheny Group: American Garage | |
| Isn't a wondeful time to be an audiophile? It is a very enjoyable time to be an audiophile. There is really something for everyone and every budget. I started listening to music back in the late 60’s on a Panasonic AM radio with a single earphone listening to the AM top 40 hits as I was go... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** If you want a basically turn key no muss no fuss vinyl starter system, I suggest U Turn Audio, which is what I did. You can configure the turntable on the web. I suggest having a separate phono preamp and not one built in. So you can order either ... | |
| Need DAC/Streaming Advice This is a pretty robust and enjoyable discussion. I have a Bryston BDA-3 feeding a Bryston 17B3 feeding two Bryston 4B3 monoblocks feeding a pair of Magnepan 1.7i Speakers. Given the above what would be the best streamer of the following: NAD Mast... | |
| DAC Upgrade For what it’s worth, since DAC choice is very subjective as is the choice of most equipment, my reference DAC is the Schiit Yggy. It is as you described in what you are searching for. I am in process of comparing the following additions to my coll... | |
| What area or country do you live in ? Northern Crooked County, Chicago suburbs!I am not going to mention anything about the weather... | |
| Budget phono stage under $100, cheap but refined, does it exist? Just so happens I am selling a U-Turn Audio Pluto Phono Preamp here: https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9a29j-u-turn-pluto-phono-preamp-phono | |
| Aurender vs. Roon Can we take a little more of a deeper dive into the benefits of adding a Roon Nucleus to a home with many Sonos devices outside of my listening room, but with an NAD Masters Series M50.2 and a Blusound Node 2i in the listening room? I have a smart... | |
| beginner seperate system Jeff, welcome to the rabbit hole of audiophilia! I think a lot is possible in building a system on a budget. You will need to become very familiar with Schiit Audio and their products, because, as stated already, they make great stuff, and great s... |