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| Analogue only preamp ideas? - no need for internal DAC! Have you posed this question in the amplifier forum?I haven’t bought a preamp in a while. I have a tubed Cary Preamp which I like to pair with a Parasound JC power amp that drives my B&W 803Ds. I like the depth of soundstage and sense of air... | |
| Krell kps 25 sc If it has analog outs, it should play through a conventional power amp. If it has digital outs then it should connect to a DAC. Having never owned one that is my humble contribution. | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Bryston. They make great amps, and I love their DAC. Their streamer is however poorly conceived, and I was dumb enough to buy their optical player, which basically can only be used as a CD transport . They should stick to amps and quit trying t... | |
| Try to train them...again, or simply shoot them? I have never had a CD scratched that couldn't be made playable again. Even when I was carrying one to the car in a jewel box that fell out of the box unbeknownst to me and I discovered it after driving over it with my car a few times with tires f... | |
| Audiophile Blu-Ray player(s)? Pioneer Elite UDP LX 50also plays SACD,DVD-A. It doesn't do streaming. Sounds great, fantastic picture, $1K | |
| Keith Jarrett on the importance of audio sound quality An interesting read. Reportedly he was really unhappy with the Piano in the Koln Concert album, which was his biggest seller and his best known recording. | |
| Can anyone recommend an FM Receiver that would play into a relatively high end system? Big Gregdon’t know much about Sirius but Internet Radio Stations can sound pretty good. I am in Chicago and our favorite Classical Station, WFMT, sounds much better in digital, and no dropouts. We also listen to high quality digital feeds from V... | |
| Can anyone recommend an FM Receiver that would play into a relatively high end system? Magnum Dynalab tuners.if you want to digitalized the signal , you will need an Analog Digital Converter (ADC). | |
| How to physically move large heavy 100lb amplifiers easily (up and downstairs) I have B&W 803 D speakers, purchased 15 years ago. The dealer had two men deliver them to my upstairs listening room. At the time I was in my mid 40s and in great physical shape. I want to replace the speakers but since the I have had heart... | |
| Thank you, marketeers of AV equipment I think the intent is clear enough here. A childhood friend of mine now makes his living writing manuals for various tech companies. He lives in Israel so there is some translation work involved as well.He says that most tech manuals or a tortur... | |
| Soundbar AND home theater - but only one HDMI ARC Sound bars don’t have a lot of fidelity that can be lost. Even if you had a 10% drop in fidelity using an HDMI splitter no one could perceive a difference.fwiw I used an HDMI splitter several years ago in an HT system for a few weeks. I had boug... | |
| Beating a dead horse.... SACD I just put my Sony 5400 ES in my 2 channel system. It was taken out of HT system a few years back and replaced with an Oppo203, and been in storage since. My current DAC is a Bryston DAC3, which 4 HDMI inputs, and the Sony can output the DSDof... | |
| Does your pet listen to your system? I purchased my Pet Rock a few decades ago and according to the little bio provided it was assigned a male gender. I am wondering, given the current societal emphasis on Gender Neutrality (Gender Ambiguity?) if a Pet Rock purchased today would hav... | |
| Does your pet listen to your system? I have a Pet Rock. He currently is enjoying listening to Brahms Piano Quintet as performed by Leon Fleisher and the Emerson String Quartet, but he indicated that he had a preference for Fleisher’s earlier recording with the Juilliard Quartet | |
| A real "wake up call" available to most....High End Audio vs. Mainstream...... Oops...Scour...although skewering Craig’s List may not be a bad idea... |