mesonto
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| Mixed Brand Pre-Amp Power Amp Pairings that Work Bryston 7B3s and an Audio Research 6SE... excellent, just excellent! | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? I have a pair of Sopra 3s that I tried to integrate with a pair of REL s/812s. I tried for months to get them to sound acceptable in my room, even broke out the REW software. But no matter what I did those RELs wouldn't integrate well enough. ... | |
| Choosing a network player/streamer Tried the other players but kept coming back to the terrible interface on the bdp, reason is that it's sound is usually better but the software is bullet proof but admittedly difficult as a user experience. Bryston's software allows for an unlimit... | |
| Sonic frontiers I have the following Sonic Frontiers equipment: SFCD 1 Line 3 Line 1 Power 2 Phone 1 All of them have been upgraded by Chris at Parts Connexion to their full extent or almost full extent. Each one is dead quiet. Some of this equipment... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers Any modern Focal speaker Sopra or Utopia line. Just exceptional. | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? "My experience over the last forty years of owning top level amps… although in the past mostly solid state (but my preamps and phono stages have been tubed) is that, ten years is a significant improvement in performance… and twenty is in a complet... | |
| Sad to say I need a new amp… Hmmm... Bryston is looking pretty good now! I think I would look to Parts Connexion or somewhere similar to get it fixed. | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? I don't know about musicians but the studious I have been in are filled with Bryston components. | |
| Suggestions for a streamer only (I have a great DAC) Bryston BDP v3 is wonderful and way underrated. I have tried some of the others mentioned here but their software was usually slow but almost always buggy. The Bryston solution is not. | |
| Vote Your Ranking -If you have an opinion on this digital subject I do all 4 er 5 er 6... *1 - Vinyl / turntable 1 - SACD player is so analogue, it is always my first choice 2 - Redbook CD is still, for me, the 2nd best 3 - 24/96 or better usually approaches my Redbook CD player, but not always 4 - As lo... | |
| Your single most significant purchase mistake? Rel s812 subs. Without a doubt the worst purchase I ever made. Kept believing all that hype but when it came time to perform, although they were fast, they just didn’t go low enough and were incredibly difficult to integrate. (I guess most likely ... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer Well I've had mac gear in the past, I also think it's just okay. Certainly not my cup of tea. But honestly I think it looks worse than it sounds. Never liked it's looks. But you can get this gear used all the time for really good prices. | |
| Appreciate Some Dac Advice Bought a Gustard X26 too, and kept it. Had others that were more expensive (more than double the price actually), and quite honestly the x26 is better than some of my other DACs that I got a hold of for way, way less than 1/2 the price. The Europ... | |
| Short list of musical subwoofers I also was once a REL believer. But then for fun I replaced 2 REL S/812s with 2 Rythmic G22s (the dual opposing 12 inch subs). They just integrate much, much better with my system and I can fine tune that integration. In addition there is now mor... | |
| Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound Tried Roon a couple of times, but found Audirvana on a stripped down NUC just sounds noticeably better. Roon does look better though, but then again I am not looking at the sound. |