mitch2
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| The "most foolish" loudspeaker tweak/upgrade ... is Ok ptss, "reasons" might include validation (of owning the best), fear (of not owning the best), affirmation (of belonging to the exclusive club), and the afterglow (bias confirmation). I have no problem with companies making money, and if people... | |
| The "most foolish" loudspeaker tweak/upgrade ... is I suspect the reasons people pay $39K for a hook-up wire "upgrade" have little to do with the resulting sound. | |
| Is Audio Bluebook dead? Just entered your speaker in a Google search and typed "for sale used" at the end.hifishark came up. One pair of Venere 3.0 speakers in walnut finish for sale now on USAudioMart for $2,150 (minor damage) and an expired dealer listing on the sa... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I haven't read a D-basher here yet that mentions which high end Class D amps they've listened to that pale in comparison to their Class A or A/B amps.Then you should go back and read the whole thread. While some have made blanket statements abo... | |
| Agoners: Need Advice! Have 3K to spend on an Amp, what do I do with no way to audition? I find it difficult to try one amp at a time and then move on to another and then go by memory of the sonics of the first one.Totally agree, phd.This led to the Claylamack playoff in my system. Without a direct comparison, it would have been v... | |
| Metrum Hex vs. Pavane or Menuet? I have owned the Octave II, Hex and Pavane.The Hex is a good sounding DAC that displays the reason many enjoy the NOS sound. It sounds very natural and musical but it is indeed bettered by the Pavane, which is a very good DAC. The Pavane removes... | |
| Agoners: Need Advice! Have 3K to spend on an Amp, what do I do with no way to audition? It is too bad you cannot listen to the different competitors since amplifier-speaker interaction can be important and is not always evident by looking at specs. One thing I have found by listening is that with SS amps, the output stage has a sign... | |
| PS Audio BHK 300 mono VS Modwright KWA 150SE mono VS D'agostino Classic stereo I don’t accept the premise that you can have too much "true" transparency. I agree with Charles. I just received my Metrum Pavane DAC back from The Netherlands after being upgraded with their Transient DAC TWO modules that are also used in th... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? "Hollywood ... audiophile" sounds kind of fun. Where do I sign up? | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Mid Fi crowd and the High EndersTo-may-to / To-mah-toI am getting nervous again since this is starting to sound like the discussion over on the fuser thread about "real audiophiles" vs. "not-real (fake?) audiophiles." Am I a Mid-Fi To-may-to or a ... | |
| Duelund DCA16GA Hi Dan,Try Partsconnexion or SonicCraft and look for Jupiter hook-up wire. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Clayton M300, 300/600 wpc into 8/4 ohms in Class A. Yes, they get hot but they have high/low bias, which helps. I quit sweating the small stuff, like warm-up time because it is all relative, since they sound so good from the time I turn them on.... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings It seems that the people critical of Class D amps haven’t given them a fair shake/listenI can only speak to my specific experiences, as can any of us. However, as I have posted previously, I did give the Acoustic Imagery Atsah, Ncore, NC1200 monob... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings As Class D advances it will eat into the high end class A market.Not yet advanced enough for me. I tried but found out the hard way and have returned to big Class A iron, like Bilbo Baggins, "There and Back Again." | |
| All my FLAC files are 44.1/16 Noticed the same thing for the FLAC files ripped from CDs on my Antipodes music server. I was used to upsampling them during ripping when I was using a Mac mini server. The same music sounds better through the Antipodes. |