livinon2wheels
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| Any regrets in selling gear? The pieces that come to mind include a pair of larger Advent speakers and the high power (for the day) Kenwood receiver that drove them. My AR turntable. My Hafler amplifier. Many of the pieces lost in the fire I have very strong regrets for their... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? I have a Emotiva TA1 DAC/amp driven from my desktop via Toslink to the Dac and that is driving a pair of Ohm 2000 Walsh omnis along with a pair of PC2000 SVS subs. Very happy with the overall sound, though the Ohm's need a bit more power than the ... | |
| Why is an iPhone such a good streamer? before my house burned, when working in the garage, which i did a lot, I used my phone via bluetooth to drive a dayton audio class d dac/amplifier which in turn drove a pair of old 2-way bookshelf speakers and and dayton audio sub. Full range soun... | |
| Should I replace the crossover capacitors in my vintage AR 3a speakers? Erik, I appreciate your thoughtful answer. I wonder how many people have not thought this thru and replaced the old caps in a crossover just because it seemed like a good thing to do while they were refurbishing an old speaker and unknowingly did ... | |
| Enough is Enough My experience with dealers has been similar some stated above. Further my situation is much like the guy in Australia...no decent dealers locally or within an hour or two. Every place I have been in recent experience has been disappointing both fo... | |
| DeVore O/93 or PureAudioProject Duet15 for a First Watt SIT-3? This reference to speakers built in Brooklyn sounds suspiciously like Ohm Acoustics...and I find it somewhat startling that there could be two speaker manufacturers in Brooklyn. That said, I have never heard or heard of the ones referred to in thi... | |
| How do you pick your gear? Tips and insights are welcome. I read as many reviews from as many different places as I can, focusing on objective measurements first followed by a listeners impressions. Where I live there are no serious audio stores within 3 hours from me, so auditioning is not really an opt... | |
| McIntosh purchased by Bose...NOT an April Fool's joke. ANY corporate buyout/takeover is bad news for the company being bought. It never ends well, not for the employees or the product being offered. Inevitably, Mr Moneybags buying failing company thinks he knows more about Failing company's business a... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? I tend to take the attitude that if they own it and seem to like it, my opinion is irrelevant. I have a friend who is fond of saying "good enough for who it's for" and we all draw the line in the sand that separates acceptable and non-acceptable i... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp @oddiofyl I appreciate that way of thinking too, and try not to buy 'cheap.' Not that spending a lot of money results in tangible improvements necessarily, but by choosing something that has comparable specs to more expensive equipment but perhaps... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp Most of the forum is comprised of very well heeled buyers that punch way above my weight in purchasing power. | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp @grislybutter - partly my reason for being here is to see what reasonable upgrade paths are and how to get more out of what i have. Also to see what’s available that has solid construction and reliability with decent performance. Im replacing most... | |
| Reliability - what’s your experience been? Brands I would avoid today because of less than stellar ownership experiences include Adcom, Carver amplifiers, though I loved the carver sound and power, their reliability was worse than adcom. Adcom was not that great in spite of the hype about ... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp I have to ask, what do you guys do for a living that allows this level of disposable income for equipment? Its so far out of my playing field I cannot comprehend having that kind of budget. | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp all of this recommended equipment is so far out of my price range I can offer little guidance in that range...its totally beyond my experience. But as a point of reference, I have a TA-1 sold by emotiva that I really love. Its an integrated dac/pr... |