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| DAC suggestions I'd highly recommend the BorderPatrol SEi DAC ! I have one and it's terrific. Very analog like and realistic sound. It's an R2R ladder-type DAC so those types have that characteristic also its not over-sampled or digital filtered. Well within ... | |
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room Tons of opinions and many of them really good ! Doing the GIK room stuff is a good start. A really good book, easy to read and understand is "Get Better Sound" by Jim Smith. Using this book and some rather inexpensive room treatments I was able... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio Wow ! What a series of exchanges ! My experience with Uptone-Audio and Alex although fairly recently has been nothing but positive ! Prior to purchasing, I had a rather lengthy conversation with Alex regarding his EtherREGEN product and I purch... | |
| SQ difference XLR vs RCA ? I have gone from using RCA to XLR and back over the 40+ years of equipment/listening. I've stayed with RCA for the last 15 of those years even with 5-meter runs of interconnects from my preamps to the amps. While I definitely agree about CMMR wi... | |
| tube pre & ss amp integrated I have to agree with SBANK... The Pass-Labs equipment is terrific, powerful in every form, extremely reliable and articulate... For the Forte's, I believe the XA25 would be your best choice $$$ for $$$. Check out 6-Moons review. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Oh... And for those who have to face the Wife Acceptance Factor, my problem is on two fronts ! Factor #1... Shes a spend-thrift ! So anything I buy has to be purchased with, ahem... discretion ! Factor #2... She's an interior designer ! So ... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. I have spent nearly $300K in purchases and subsequent sales of electronics and speakers over the 40-years that I've been heavily into listening. I evolved from very inefficient to rather inefficient to efficient to soon very efficient speakers ov... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? Great that there are lots of comments and examples here for your question... I have to agree with many here regarding higher efficiency speakers over inefficient ones. I've had both types, and in each case, micro-detail has always been notably b... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES With critical listening from both Tidal and QoBuz, I favor definitely QoBuz over Tidal for sound quality. The better your digital components, the easier it will be to detect the differences with less noise and jitter... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? I have used Audio-Envy cables for all of my RCA analog interconnects and speaker cables. I have found them to be really musical and balanced across the frequency spectrum. Captain is the owner and is happy to work with you and I believe they sti... | |
| My last Integrated Amp: $5-10,000? While I don't own it, I believe the Pass-Labs Int-60 would be a terrific integrated amp. I have the XP-22 preamp and had the 30.8 amp and both are superb powerful and detailed. The Int-60 is also high biased in class-A. A great single box solut... | |
| Too many choices for R2R DACS--opinions appreciated Another happy BorderPatrol R2R DAC owner and I know Gary Dews personally. He's terrific and always looking to make improvements to his equipment. In fact, I have two of his DAC's. You really can't go wrong, and I seldom see these for sale, so i... | |
| Installing dedicated 10 gauge lines WOW... Lots of opinions here on power wiring etc... I do agree that confiding in a good electrician especially one with re-modeling experience is a reasonable thing to do. I re-modeled a retirement cottage last year and was easily able to insta... | |
| Your thoughts on my quest for new speakers I am in the market for my last set of speakers as I'm retiring soon and will not have the same discretionary income as I do now. That said, I too have been looking. The Maggie 3.7i's you mentioned I have auditioned and indeed, they are terrific,... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle I renovated a retirement cottage last year and completely re-wired the listening space with 10-gauge cryo'd ROMEX from VH Audio and used Pangea outlets. Both were a great addition to start this room. The Pangea outlets have a very strong grip an... |