mmcgill829
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| 2a3 Tubes - Favorites? Yeah, I suppose that might be the case lol | |
| 2a3 Tubes - Favorites? Interesting! I'd heard about EML before, so will look into the mesh 2a3s from them. They're significantly cheaper than Takatsuki 2a3s (and I can't really find any reviews on those at all). | |
| Amplifier Pairing with Coherent 15s @bjesien Not quite. I ended up asking for them to be held until early January to ship as it was getting into a time crunch before I was out of town for the holidays. I was supposed to receive them last week (they've been in the shipping process fo... | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... @tmiddle the listening position will be about 6ft back from the center of the fireplace. | |
| Auralic Vega G2 or Denafrips Pontus II 12th + streamer? @olyaudio I forgot to follow up here! I did end up going with the pontus/iris combo for the dac/ddc to pair with the Zen. They sound great, but definitely invest in a high quality HDMI and USB to use with them. The HDMI is best if kept very short... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers for office ~$500 Can’t really beat $150+shipping for that. I think they were originally like $650 new back in 2005, so they’d be around $1k today adjusted for inflation. I’d probably feel fairly confident they’ll be better than anything new at that $150 price poin... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers for office ~$500 I ended up remembering a pair of small speakers I heard a while back that sounded pretty good and picked them up used - Epos M5. | |
| Amplifier Pairing with Coherent 15s @toro3 I certainly hope so! Definitely will be a big step up from what I am using now, but it was just temporary anyway. :) I also was checking on Coherents on the used market - but only saw stuff pop up very rarely - mainly 12s from what I saw -... | |
| Amplifier Pairing with Coherent 15s As a follow up to this since its been a few months... I actually decided on going with the Coherent 18 speakers instead of the 15s, and I put a deposit down on a pre-amp and amplifier combo the other day and decided to go with Aric Audio. Preamp... | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? @soix No problem! lol. I don't sell them or get any benefits or anything, but DH Labs has a pretty good return policy (30-days) on their cables. If you sign up for emails you can get 10% off too, so can get the HDMI 2.1 for ~$100 incl shipping fo... | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? @soix I actually just swapped the HDMI cable back to the old one in the middle of a song, and then back again to see. While the baseline change with just the USB was an improvement, the HDMI cable seems to make the biggest improvement here. The U... | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? @soix So quick update: after a few days of pretty heavy listening, it did seem to open up a little more (though some may be attributed to my ears adjusting to the sound). I did still hear a minor difference when the Iris was connected versus jus... | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? @soix I actually went with the DH Labs Mirage USB for the USB cable. Has a lot of the same features of the Lavricables. Slightly more expensive, but with the 25% off sale it's in the same neighborhood. | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? @soix I'm using some cheapies that I had laying around from other things. The HDMI is an anker HDMI cable - probably cost less than $10, I'd assume. The USB was something I bought for something else at one point - maybe a printer? I don't recall. ... | |
| Amplifier Pairing with Coherent 15s @alexberger I was originally looking at both the 18 and the 15 models, but the 18 was outside of my price range a bit. I ended up getting a good deal on the 18 that made it work with my budget nicely, so decided to go that way after all. just made... |