mike4597
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| Recommendation for tube preamp Rogue Audio RP-1 is well within your price limit and an excellent product. Not balanced, but a very good preamp made here in the USA. I had one until I upgraded to the RP-7 by Rogue Audio. | |
| Looking for a new Subwoofer For Soix, I checked the Paradigm website, and it states that it is a sealed sub. However, many thanks for the link, and they look pretty good, so I will have to check them out as they are made here in the USA and are very reasonably priced. Now,... | |
| Primare/ Vincent Adio /NAD /Rogue/ AVA /Hegel...- need a simple and reliable integrated I cannot speak about the Rogue Sphinx specifically, but I have owned two Rogue Audio preamps, the RP-1 and the RP-7 is my current preamp. The quality is first-rate, the performance is excellent—I am very pleased with the RP-7, and the company is ... | |
| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs After exchanging several emails with Silversmith founder/President Jeffrey Smith, I ordered a 4 ft pair of Fidelium speaker cables to replace my Performance Audio cables using Mogami W3104 cable, which I considered to be quite good. Jeffrey took t... | |
| Speakers that disappear Long ago, I had a pair of diminutive ADS bookshelf speakers that “disappeared” and presented a wonderful soundstage. I do not remember the model number but they were wonderful … except for lacking substantial base Fast forward to the present, a... | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system I was running a Rogue RP-7 tube preamp into a highly-regarded Rogue tube power amp, the power amp replacing a SS amp driving my Fyne Audio F-702 speakers that were made in Scotland. I felt it resulted in degraded tonal qualities of instruments, r... | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! Probably down the scale from your consideration, but I had the same experience with my equipment. Using a Rogue Audio RP-7 preamplifier (tubes) with a highly-regarded tube power amplifier that replaced a Benchmark AHB2 driving my Fyne Sudio F-70... | |
| Start with Upgrade to DAC? WOW. Did I set off a storm! I appreciate all the advice guys (and gals if any are involved). Being quite pleased with the Schiit Bifrost 2/64, I queried Schiit as to whether I would be able to detect a significant difference between the Bifrost... | |
| Start with Upgrade to DAC? Thanks to all for the advice. I think will sign up for one of the streaming services, whichever is easiest to use, and then look at DACs. I guess I am talking mid-fi here, because about $1500 for a streamer with an LPS and $2500 for the DAC will... | |
| Start with Upgrade to DAC? Viridian, Thorens TD126 MKII. | |
| Start with Upgrade to DAC? Viridian, Oops, left that out. My TT is a Thorens TD 126 MK—I am the original owner and recently had it refurbed—with an Audio-Technical VM540ML cartridge. Frankly, I think the output from my LPs, especially the 1980s Sheffield discs and some 45... | |
| AI-Written Stereophile Articles I attended a University of California campus (UC Davis, formerly the University Farm) in the 1960s. All incoming freshmen had to take a Subject A English exam; if you failed the exam, you had to take a 3-hour one-semester course in remedial Engli... | |
| AI-Written Stereophile Articles The decline in writing skills is a multi-decade phenomenon. I was on the staff of an Army school in the 1980s; our students were mostly Army officers with advanced degrees from civilian colleges and universities. I saw the same problem a few yea... | |
| Parks Budgie vs Lounge MKIII phono preamps I have the Lounge Gold phono preamp, but I do not have experience with both. I I can say that, to me, the Lounge Gold is simply astounding. I am using it with my Thorens TD 126 MkII TT (I am the original owner and recently had it refurbed) and a... | |
| Upgrading to a stand alone DAC I will add to the Schiit Bifrost 2 recommendation. I have the same NAD CD player as you and was simply stunned at the improvement made by switching to the Bifrost 2, which I later upgraded to the 2/64. Better tonal quality of the instruments, be... |