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Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ?
@brewmasterdonSo you are saying that running through a bunch of resistors, transformers and caps, to say nothing of connectors and extra sets of wire/wire's doesn't colour the sound by comparison to running direct??Hi Don, I know you are talking t... 
Definitely lonely to be an audiophile
@charles1dad"Nice thread! Many interesting responses and perspectives.+1 ghdprentice and tomic601 in particular. I can attend a jazz club and sit through 2 or 3 sets or listen at home for hours"Thanks Charles and thanks for posting, ah the jazz cl... 
Definitely lonely to be an audiophile
@afisher"the vast majority of us audiophiles are on the autistic spectrum. Many of us are capable of limited social interaction and excellent at being flatscreen warriors when the situation calls for it"I was thinking the exact same thing, in my s... 
Definitely lonely to be an audiophile
Hi Erik, you have very good posts and I respect your stance on many topics, but IMO although right the emotion is conveyed by the musicians if you don't have the Hz that emotion gets diluted and it is less impactful. Now if we are considering reas... 
Definitely lonely to be an audiophile
Thank you all for your postings@ghdprenticeAudiophilia tends to be a solo activity. Personally, I value my alone time more than anythingI agree and I value my alone time too, it is mostly a solo activity. My wife she is a pianist, she loves music,... 
Low gain dac!
OP your thread turned out to be an interesting topic for me, gain is something we don’t pay attention to when we assemble our systems, some of us new to this hobby assume equipment will just work alone with other equipment but that is not always t... 
New Yamaha integrated amps
I had the AS2100 and sold it, it is a great integrated, very good SS amp, I remember I enjoyed it very much.  
Tube Dealers 2021
I will give Jim McShane a try, excellent guy, very knowledgeable, I can recommend him 
Atmasphere mp1 mk3.3 with phono
NOS 12AT7s that are quiet enough to work in a phono section capable of working with LOMC cartridges disappeared long ago. I'm not saying you can't find some, but they are very hard to find these days For the record, on the 12AT7's comment Ralph... 
Atmasphere mp1 mk3.3 with phono
Thank you, I know Ralph doesn't recommend NOS for the 12AT7 phono sections and he uses Shuguang as the stock tube which BTW is excellent.Fort the preamp he supplies Shuguang brown base which are good, I have NOS Sylvanias 6SN7GTBs on mine and foun... 
Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else
So many recommendations @opm, que genero de música escuchas normalmente, yo por ejemplo jazz, blues, rock, Clásico y eso, lo más difícil en mi opinión es reproducir el rock, Por la dinámica y porque las grabaciones originales son normalmente no so... 
Atmasphere mp1 mk3.3 with phono
@phantom_av I have an MP-1 with all upgrades except Caddock resistors, which tubes are you running not NOS? Just out of curiosity?  
Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling
Thank you Steve, appreciate the help. 
Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling
@williewonka These amplifiers adopt a completely "balanced" design approach in that the speaker outputs have a +ve and -ve terminalNice posting Steve, after trying many cables on my Atmasphere mono amps and preamp rig over the last few years I rea... 
Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference?
Why you guys had to mentioned his chin?