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| 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... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? I've found over the years that a really good preamp seems to provide to me the best results sonically. These days, most source components have good output drive, and preamps end up being more attenuator than amplifier. However, the signal still ... | |
| Anyone have any experience with CD transports? Particularly Jay’s Audio? I've had my Jay's Audio CDT2 MK 3 for about 6-months now and am very happy with the performance. It replaced a 47-labs Flat-Fish (also a good transport) and I'm using the I2S output into an Denafrips Terminator-2 DAC. The combination is very goo... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? I have used the Blue-Jeans speaker and interconnect cables with good success ! I replaced my other cables with them about 10 years ago and they beat them out at a fraction of the cost. I then about a year later, tried Audio-Envy cables and that to... | |
| Question about Class A If your speakers are truly 92db sensitive (sometimes mfg's over-rate them), I'd recommend the Pass-Labs 30.8 stereo amp. Definitely punches way above it's 30WPC rating and has plenty of power-supply for 4-ohm speakers. My 94db speakers 6-ohm imp... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? In my experimentation and experiences over several decades, those equipment pieces that do the transduction are the most critical for sonic quality. Turntable/arm/cartridge, CD/Player/transports and speakers come to mind. for me as having the mos... | |
| Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood? Not for Tekton bashing as I believe they make a pretty good inexpensive speaker. I owned a pair of the Perfect-SET speakers. They may have not been quite as efficient as advertised, however they were efficient and sounded pretty darn good over-a... | |
| I am looking for a high-quality HDMI cable for I2S from a CD Transport to the DAC... Thanks for all of your inputs and recommendations/suggestions. I ended up purchasing a WireWorld Silver Sphere HDMI cable. The cable has provided me with a noticeable upgrade in sound, replacing my Supra-Cable HDMI cable, with of course a notable... | |
| Thank you millercarbon Thanks for the prompt responses... In my older age (and now semi-retired) I have less discretionary income and any future changes to my system have to be really considered as to cost/benefit. Years ago, I would change equipment often chasing the... | |
| Thank you millercarbon Question... If you buy one and you actually hear no or minimal difference on your system between the power-cord you have now and this one, can you return it ? ! This may end up being the "Law of Diminishing-Returns"... Except for those with gob... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment Jay's-Audio CDT2-MK3 CD Transport... I sold my old 47-Labs Flatfish Transport (a great transport by the way !) and replaced it with the CDT2. The Flatfish used SPDIF output and the CDT2 has that and I2s which is what I chose as the interface to... | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? I would have to agree with Pass-Labs XA60.5 or better yet XA60.8 mono-blocs. I had the XA30.8 stereo amp and it sounded terrific with 93db speakers. I seldom moved the meter on it and I played some music pretty loudly ! Don't let the 60WPC fool... | |
| Best place to purchase a new Denafrips Pontus II I have to agree with the above responses regarding Vinshine and Alvin Chee... I bought my Terminator-Plus from Vinshine/Alvin and he is all about customer-service, quick response communications, and time commitments. Highly recommended ! Going ... | |
| How many watts?? Here's a decent guideline that I've used when calculating power needed/used. See the information below... Pay attention to the fact that most speakers rate their db-output at 1-meter and your listening position may be 3X that. You have to consi... |