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| 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... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects I have had numerous interconnects and speaker cables over the years and I absolutely love Audio-Envy ! Cap the owner is very easy to work with, and yes they do have a return guarantee, although I've never had to send anything back. They are very... | |
| 2nd systems- who’s got one? I had two separate systems of high-$$$ equipment. My "main" system was the one I listened to 90% of the time. I had great equipment that I replaced originally but couldn't bear to part with some of the pieces, so I made a 2nd system. After two-... | |
| Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood? The Razz speakers at the 2022 Tampa Audio-Expo sounded engaging, micro and macro dynamic and a thoroughly enjoyable listen. Paired with the terrific BorderPatrol S20 SET amp, SEi DAC, and Innuos ZENith Music-Server was a blend of equipment that r... | |
| Better R2R DAC Recommendation? I second Murrayburke’s post... If you just need USB or S/PDIF, the BorderPatrol SEi DAC is terrific. I have one and it’s been a mainstay in my system. Nice analog-like sound. It’s an R-2-R with no oversampling and no digital-filter. And for the to... | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. Several years ago, I purchased a number of 6H30P-DR NOS Russian military tubes and still have a stash of about 24 of these. I bought them when I had BAT equipment along with a full complement of 6C33-D Russian NOS output tubes as spares. Present... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Electrical engineering theory in the strict sense makes sense regarding this discussion, and when looking at high quality power supplies, one can see that any RF noise coming from the wall to the power supply should be easily shunted away. That s... | |
| Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions I have Living-Voice OBX-RW speakers (94db 6-ohm nominal) and have used them with an 18WPC SET amp and First Watt SIT-2 8WPC solid-state amp very effectively ! They sound terrific and play plenty loudly in my modest listening-room. I also had a Pa... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter In my experience, a CD transport over a CD player is the way to go. I began using my CD player as a transport when I bought a new DAC as it was sonically better than the CD player's internal DAC. After a period of time, I took a chance and repla... |