mitch2
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| Gold Lion AX7 in tube preamp For warmish/tubey sound; Amperex 12 AX7 Mullard 12AX7 RCA 12AX7 long plate | |
| Mojo Audio - Mystique Y NC DAC @brbrock Hello. I purchased most of the Mojo Audio DACs I have owned new, except for the two I have now. The EVO Pro, I purchased from a reviewer and I don't believe either of us knew it had Z-chips in it. My more recent purchase of the X SE ... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? I look at speakers as the macro part of my system while the source/front end I consider to be micro. I found it much harder to find speakers that worked for me sonically, plus large heavy speakers are much harder to move around than front end equi... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers @bdp24 - I get that many/most manufacturers do not use boutique wire and crossover parts, but some use better parts (mostly caps) where they believe it will make a sonic difference. Standard OFC hook up wire is still 101% conductivity on the IACS... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers So, am I to understand that a speaker designer/manufacturer who makes their living from actually specifying the drivers used, and designing the cabinets, driver layout, bracing, crossovers, frequency range for each driver, and how to make it all w... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better “Seems to me the greatest motivation in buying active speakers is to save space.” Don’t forget convenience. With active speakers, you could literally have a single component (streaming DAC) with variable volume control (certainly not rare these... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better "Green cars are better than blue cars." Of course its all relative. There are pluses and minuses to just about everything. Dedicating on-board amplification to each driver is a potential benefit but the quality of those amplifiers must also be co... | |
| Thumper’s Mother I am trying not to think too deeply today, but I did observe that Thumper’s Mother might be able to help over on the ASR thread. | |
| Power Cables Nice @hilde45, your link is to a post by Elizabeth. I haven’t seen anything from her in quite some time. I hope she is well. To the OP, if you want to do something without going down a rabbit hole, I agree the Pangea cords should work well. OFC c... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Live at Ludlow Garage/1970 - The Allman Brothers Band (Duane's guitar is awesome on this early stuff!) | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers If still looking, amps I always wanted to try but never did are the Gato PWR-222 monoblocks - 250wpc. They also offer a variety of integrated amplifiers from 150-250wpc. | |
| Thumper’s Mother Unfortunately, the slurs and name-calling are so repetitive they have become boring. People who can never agree to disagree should at least get some new material to keep things entertaining. | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers This thread sent me on a trip to the way-back machine where I remembered this very subject being discussed over on AA. This 22-year old thread recommends the positive wire to the MF/HF terminal and the negative to the LF terminal, and also provid... | |
| Morrow Audio Speaker Cables @tubeguy80 I will say I don’t care for their XLR cables, due to most of them using the same relatively basic Neutrik connectors. I have made many XlR cables using Furutech FP-601/602 connectors yet am surprised by the number of very expensive... | |
| EVS Music Purifiers - Amazed by how much improvement they make! Anyone else try them? Here is a link explaining RC filters, as used in the Walker links. BITD (early to late 2000's) there used to be quite a bit of DIY-type discussion over on Audio Asylum with some fairly knowledgeable people. It was a good place/time to learn some... |