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| Audiophile Fakery Stakes are highest assuming audiophile "fakery" with high end audio no doubt in that high end infers large chunks of money being thrown around in the pursuit of always better sound, more so than the alternatives. It is no doubt fertile grounds for... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Sometimes different, sometimes similar, sometimes hard to tell apart at all.Like most things, it all depends.In general, the sound of "good quality" tube gear is more variable than good quality SS. If you like a certain flavor of sound, tube or SS... | |
| Audiophile Fakery They really do thatt with cars? I like mine quiet.There may be some smoke and mirrors that goes into marketing to audiophiles for sure but placebo tubes seems a bit far fetched. I doubt that would get very far even if tried. Why bother as a maker ... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in DAC's these days? Asynchronous is a USB mode. If its USB to DAC, then you definitely want a good Asynchronous USB implementation that allows the clock designed for high performance on the DAC to be in control. Its becoming more common with USB DACs to operate this ... | |
| Anyone else own EPI/Epicure "back in the day?" Of the speaker lines I recall liking from back then, I would categorize the EPIs as having very good performance characterized by the most polite top end and perhaps generally being most easy on the ears overall. And I mean that in only a good way... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in DAC's these days? When I say "really good", what I really mean is good performance, ie low jitter. That puts you in the league. However, much like cartridges, most DACs will sound different to some extent still. This is more where judgements about what sounds good ... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in DAC's these days? I think there are many really good ones for very modest cost these days, especially over the last 3-5 years or so. I consider both mhdt DACs I use to be exceptional bargains. SO much so that I have not been inclined to shop around. Even the DACs i... | |
| Anyone else own EPI/Epicure "back in the day?" I remember them well from my time at Tech Hifi circa 1978-1980. There were many EPIs there among the others. Eventually I got to demo and sell to customers. The EPIS Advents and OHMs were the lines I liked, not so much JBL, Infinity and others. TH... | |
| vintage yamaha versus sony amps or ? Its even less complicated than that. Most good quality gear old or new makes good music old or new if mixed matched and set up right. Just like most cars are capable of getting you from point a to point b in the expected amount of time. What more ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Zd,Well, there you go then. I don't doubt it can be done with the right amp and sound very good. I'll keep my eyes open for a chance to hear ML and tube amps myself. | |
| What speakers for 10k? Nothing against Wavetouch or Vapor, but in general, with vendors that have not been around for long and with lesser known products, its hard to say if their products are "end game" or not. Time usually tells what works best. It's a riskier proposi... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers If I'm not mistaken, power demands increase exponentially with lower frequency, so a .5 ohm impedance at high frequencies is much less problematic than when typically found in the bass region.I just know what I've seen and heard over the years wit... | |
| What are the best speakers for 80's hard rock? OHM Walsh 5X models use a single 12" driver to better effect for producing most of the music much better than any other 2 or 3 way design with a 12" driver that I have ever heard.That includes 80s hard rock along with all the rest.In fact, I can't... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers FWIW, all very good ML demos I have heard over the years have been with very good SS amplification. Classe, Krell and that ilk. I don't recall any with tube amplification so can't comment there. Ml does not seem like a company that would design th... | |
| What's your experience with fine phono preamp s ? Having heard many a phono rig over the years, both old and new, and at all price points, I think the phono portion of the ARC sp16 pre-amp I have currently to be pretty darn good and its a fairly modest piece in the ARC world. ARC has been doing t... |