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| Higher End USB Cables Satfrat's advice is about the best I could give to anyone thinking about trying higher end USB cables..."If you're not willing to spend, don't try these cables out". If you buy one of them, you'll likely keep it.The Poiema is a great cable and the... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Most amps have safety measures in place if a tube goes bad (or is bad right out of the gate). I bought a Rogue Tempest II integrated back in February and apparently UPS dropped it while it was being shipped. Among other damage, one of the tubes wa... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? Unless you or your pets (or both) are having sex with the the amp, I wouldn't think burns would be an issue. No more than a hot stove and usually a warning will suffice there for those that don't know better (or they'll learn fast enough). Besides... | |
| PC to Tube Pre/Amp What price range are you looking at? | |
| Shunyatas New CX series It's cliche saying this...but mileage varies. I' wouldn't dump $50.00, let alone a few grand on something if I don't think it was worth while. I got a real good laugh over the thought of high priced USB cables with computer audio until I decided t... | |
| Know anything about Pentagram Loudspeakers? Sorry, not intending to poke fun, but that's not a great brand name from a marketing standpoint. Unless he was targeting fans of the darker 80's butt rock (not that there's anything wrong with that...). | |
| Know anything about Pentagram Loudspeakers? Pentagram? Ha. | |
| Higher End USB Cables I took delivery of the Poiema cable yesterday. Right out of the bag it's incredible. I liked what the Cryoparts cable does versus the Belkin Pro Gold, but the Poiema is honestly in another class. I'll spare all the cliches on describing the improv... | |
| What's wrong? Nuforce/Capri no better than Sunfire Speaking from experience, as I've owned both the TGP-5 and TGA-5200, they're decent gear (and the amp gives you the option to mimic a tube amp in some respects). I just sold both the pre/pro and amp over the past several months. During the time I ... | |
| Help with bi-wirable efficient floorstanding 2.5K Cheap side - Quad 22L2s. New $1800, used $1,100 or so. Not many speakers will beat them in that price range.I'm driving a pair with a Rogue Audio Stereo 90 in triode and they do just fine. Save your money for other things unless you're looking to ... | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System Jax2 makes some great points.I recently did some comparisons between WAV, AIFF and Apple lossless with my IMac. System is an MHDT tube DAC, Turbo-3 USB converter and a Rogue Audio Stereo 90 tube amp (modified). All files are played at 24/44.1 (I'm... | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System I've an IMac that I've tried with optical. To be honest, USB sounds much, much better in my setup. That said, toslink versus USB may well depend on the DAC and it's input implementation (the DAC3 for example doesn't handle USB very well, as I owne... | |
| iTunes: dynamics, midrange gone 'til restarted Did you check the MIDI settings to see if they were set to what you wanted at the point you encountered this problem? | |
| Help Me Tweak System... Also to help -My system may be geared more to the music I listen to - classic rock, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Tool, Tori Amos, some butt rock, etc. I listen to some instrumental(Ottmar Liebert), some country and other odds and ends stuff. Drums sound ... | |
| Help Me Tweak System... Scrith - Everything makes a difference.DACs - Tube versus solid state. NOS versus upsampling. Ones that reclock versus ones that do not. Digital filter implementation. The list goes on and on. If you get it wrong with your DAC, you're in for a hea... |