lightminer
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| Will Quantum Computing Bridge the analog gap? I haven't heard them yet, but DSD with a Meitner or PBD, or the recently released Mytek is supposed to be the closest to vinyl available today, but there are only 8 albums you can buy! This is for .dff file playback, not SACD.Hopefully there will ... | |
| Review: Pass Labs XA60.5 monobloks Amplifier Tejay - if you want to be 'modern' check out the Spectron amps if you haven't. I believe that these, or even the nuForce amps, are perfect for driving the bass panels of actively bi-amped Maggies. For the Spectron amp (~4k):800 Watts at 4 Ohms1400... | |
| Magnepan 3.7's versus 20.1's? I would think this is simple. The 3.7s are updated and the 20.1s probably will be soon, so for now there are a couple of things the 3.7 *might* do a tad better - but the main quality that the 20.1s have is the push-pull force on the ribbon and qua... | |
| Pass Labs:What to expect fm XA60.5 to XA100.5 In terms of the more power means more complex circuit with more stuff going on, so less good sound, that was certainly born our with the original Pass Amps, where the Aleph 3 was considered the best sounding, although very low on watts.I'm going t... | |
| Best DAC for Sonos Beresford is cheap in cost and plays better than a lot of the DACs mentioned. It probably plays in the 800-900 dollar range but only costs 250. | |
| The 3 kings: Esoteric K01,EMM XDS1,Meridian 808.3 A couple of points:1) CDP is not interesting anymore. DACs are interesting (why? see pt. 3)2) At this level sometimes one can correctly argue 'better' but 98% of the time it is really just 'different'. 3) That said, there is some neat stuff going ... | |
| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? If anyone knows if it would be better if an OTL tube amp were designed for 3 ohms vs 4 for a Maggie 3.6/3.7 let us know.Other than that, they seem very suited for what planar speakers do, especially in terms of the fact that planar speakers are so... | |
| MartinLogan Motion 4 vs Gallo A'Diva Yeah, I did some tests, and obviously the DAC/pre/amp in the TV is less quality than my main system, but I actually put the really old speakers on my main system, and they were really really bad. I'm at just under 1000 watts everything running, an... | |
| MartinLogan Motion 4 vs Gallo A'Diva I'll check that out! There are a pair of black ones here at a very reasonable price, but I placed some black thing here on the mantel as a test and can't do black.I can get a sense of the total watts my system uses tomorrow. My wife works at home ... | |
| MartinLogan Motion 4 vs Gallo A'Diva And actually it would be the Motion 2 to keep size low. However, I may have found my answer. The Motion can't be had in white, and the speakers hide much better in white. So I may have to go with A'Diva as they can be had white.Interesting note ab... | |
| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? The MA 3s looks good on power, but I'm trying to stay under 6 figures. | |
| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? I mentioned so many things, just to say, lets keep this thread on the topic of OTL amps as applied to Maggie 3.6 or 3.7s (or 10s if there is experience with that out there). | |
| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? 4est - I actually love the Aleph 5 on them. One thing I was thinking of doing is adding a Class D (because the xover point on the 3.6 is so low so the negatives don't come into play - 200 hz) and doing active crossover, and keeping the Aleph 5 for... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge Yes, indeed. I am very happy with what can only be called extremely extensive features of J River, so if a person is feeding the Bridge from J River that takes some of the onus off of the server software on the NAS unless I'm missing something.In ... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge I do storage at work and while none of the NAS systems are comparable at all to the kinds of things I do at work I've occasionally dipped down and poked around at the NAS offerings. The main problem with them is they are software not hardware raid... |