mmcgill829
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| 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... | |
| Phono cable (RCA-RCA) from TT to Phono Pre Question @atmasphere I'll admit - most of that went over my head. I don't really have any *problems* with the sound coming out of my analog system that I can tell, and don't know what 'loading issue' you're referring to, but was mostly curious if I was be... | |
| i2s Cable for Denafrips Iris -> Pontus? Also, if there is a suggested cable ~$100 for me to use instead, that would be great. I don't really want to spend $500 of an i2s cable right now. | |
| Phono cable (RCA-RCA) from TT to Phono Pre Question @atmasphere I suppose I left out an important piece of information in my post... I use a Hana ML and have pretty much exclusively used LOMC cartridges for quite some time. | |
| Amplifier Pairing with Coherent 15s @alexberger I actually ended up going with the 18s. They're still being built so stay tuned... | |
| Auralic Vega G2 or Denafrips Pontus II 12th + streamer? @soix Thanks! That makes sense. I hesitate since regardless of the choice, they'll be getting amplified by SET amplification and going through both a tube pre-amplifier and the tube amp. I also will be listening to more lively music versus vinyl w... |