mazian
Responses from mazian
| Who's Gone Topless? When I changed tubes from KT90s to KT 120s on my Rogue Stereo 90 amp I had to take the top off because of the increased height of the new tubes. SQ was better but I put that down to the new tubes. | |
| Decent preamp I would recommend you stick with separates but your budget could be a problem. Used Modwright, Belles, DeHavilland or Van Alstine are all quality but may be too expensive. If you are not averse to Hong Kong designed and built I had an Audio Experi... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts Audiophiles are suckers for snake oil and like to believe that if they spend big money on tweaks there must be a difference. I have lived through several decades of so called outstanding and expensive tweaks and cables most worthless. An answer wh... | |
| Basic Digital questions Try the Auris BluMe HD. At around $100 it gives you CD quality when you stream from Tidal etc. The Bluetooth connection is solid and sound is excellent and you will save a lot of money | |
| Is it all worth it? To me definitely not worth it. Even with extensive cleaning the clicks and plops always came back. Give me the convenience of CDs and streaming anytime even at the cost of some SQ. | |
| Streaming gelle24I'm using a Pure Audio Lotus 5 DAC | |
| Streaming I have an Auris BluMe HD and a Cambridge Audio CXN Streamer both of which I have run through an external DAC. Perhaps it's my age but I can hear no difference between the Auris and the CXN. In fact when I run both directly to a preamp streaming T... | |
| Selling on Audiogon Sellers in the USA and Canada would sell quicker and for a better price if they were prepared to sell internationally. In my case there are desirable items that are just not available in Australia. | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? I started with the Large Advents in the 70,s before moving on to the Spendor BC1s after approx. 5 years. After that followed Acoustats, Shahinian Obelisks, Dynaudio Contours and finally to my current speakers, Martin Logan Vantages, about 10 years... | |
| A philosophical question. I suspect that professional musicians like to play new music but I'm not sure audiences want to listen to it quite as much. | |
| Streamer v DAC - which is more important? Is Bubble UPnP Android only as I can't find it on the Apple App store? | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Van Alstine, Belles, DeHavilland or Modwright - they are all great so take your pick. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Just a follow up the Denafrips Pontus and the mhdt Orchid and Pagoda were some of the DACs that the Lotus 5 beat hands down. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Yes merosen that is the seller but I got an email from them a couple of weeks back and they had it on sale for $1499 | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips I have always hated ESS chips and products in general as I have found them to be too analytical at the high end. However I recently bought a Pure Audio Lotus 5 DAC which has an ESS Sabre 3098Pro Dac and much to my surprise it beat the pants off so... |