madavid0
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| Honest Amp Reviews: Impossible? It’s not a matter of whether I agree with a review or not. The problem is that the reviews aren’t honest. For example, go to any hi-fi review site. You can always tell if a piece of gear is good at imaging or not if the reviewer mentions it. If th... | |
| Honest Amp Reviews: Impossible? Alright. For the class D believers please describe your systems. I bet not one of you has anything approaching high-end and you've all been successfully marketed to by the "affordable" audiophile scam. I also bet that none of you have ever compare... | |
| High end Class D amps? Class D is for subwoofer boxes. It should be illegal to push that junk on people. OP should leave this thread and never look back. | |
| Amplifier suggestions please The only thing Op is going to get at the price range is class D trash. You're only option outside of Aliexpress for a quality amp is to find a used Odyssey monoblock pair. I actually have a Yggdrasil and an Odyssey Stratos stereo amp. My Freya bal... | |
| New to audio. Is there a good DAC that can produce layers of sound? A few things.1. Analog is better than digital. If sound quality is your top consideration look instead into a record player system.2. The quality of digital is in large part from the design of your source and especially power systems.For point 1 t... | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? I remember looking at Basis turntables some years ago. Then last year I checked up on them again and found that the prices appear to have been increased tremendously. | |
| High End is Dead? My view of Millennial and Gen Z types around the internet such as Reddit and Massdrop is that there IS an interest in audiophile audio, but they are actively antagonistic towards high-end audio. So the interest in better audio is there but they ha... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Well I ended up buying a used Reed 2A off Audiogon for $2k. Later on I also broke down and bought the $600 SmartTractor. | |
| what is it in audio that you dislike most? What I dislike most is the industry.The markups from manufacturers and dealers are absurd. Instead of servicing the affordable market with good products they instead shovel out crap -- class D, green circuit-board integrateds, switching PSUs, el-c... | |
| Cartridge recommendations But hold on here. Isn't the traditional wisdom that lower-mass generators, the better? MCs are best because they have the lowest mass signal generators. Why is it there isn't a single MM in the high end market?With my first turntable it had a dece... | |
| Cartridge recommendations What's with the MM recommendations? Isn't it widely understood that good MCs always beat MMs? | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Haha. No one is going to hear a difference in those smartphone mic videos with the room echo going on. | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? No one wants to answer the question. Most serious responses boil down to "expensive tonearms are a scam". For example @lohanimal post above in which he likens it to the difference between a Casio and Patek; the Patek keeps time no better than a Ca... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD A major problem that's holding back my digital system is that my vinyl significantly out-performs it. I'm trying to figure this out. It may be that it'll never be possible due to the dynamic superiority of vinyl? I went ahead and bought the Music ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... If you buy grey market are you stuck with going to a 3rd party like Soundsmith to get a re-tip? |