moonwatcher
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| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... @thespeakerdude perhaps, but if they are soooo good, then you’d think people would be keeping them for use in a secondary system, or passing them down to relatives or friends, not pawning them off on eBay. Most speakers I have bought have been rep... | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... I’m with @carlsbad. We have to note that despite their embrace by so-called audiophiles, there are a LOT of USED KEF LS-50 and now LS-50 Metas for sale relatively cheap on eBay and other outlets. That alone says that maybe they grow old fast on pe... | |
| Cheapest but good cables…. SVS has some good quality to price ratio cables. Their Soundpath Ultra gives a good bang for the buck. As usual it all comes down to how much you want to spend. Cheap but good interconnect cables are made by Worlds Best Cable using Canare or Moga... | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) @shutupuface sometimes (but not that often) they’d mention gapless playback on the spec sheet or in the advertizing blurb. I know Cambridge Audio mentions it in their ad copy. That’s another brand of basic player many people seem to love even if o... | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) Denon DCD-600ne is a great basic player. (I have the DCD-800ne I bought last year because I did want USB for FLACs and DSD). +1 for the Rotel CD11 Tribute as well. Whatever you buy make sure it is gapless so all your CDs play like they are suppos... | |
| Why is it that every time, lately, that I'm interested in a thread... I'd be interested if any of you get a pop up saying "This page is not responding" often when on the forum? My Internet is reasonably fast (Spectrum) and I don't have issues with other sites? I am using Edge, not Chrome. Does this happen to you a... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? On my circa 1982 AR-9, the smaller sheets of diffraction limiting flat acoustic panels around the tweeters and midrange drivers turned to a messy dust and need to be replaced. (These are panel around the drivers that fit inside a larger, thicker a... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? Just beware that "wall wart" powered Ultrasonic machines like the Humminguru and all of the even cheaper knockoffs you see on Amazon do NOT provide in any way, the same level of small bubble formation and cavitation and cleaning that "real powered... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I would hope that at $3700 these don't sound bad. In fact, I hope they do sound great as per the desciption of those who have heard them and Stereophile Magazine. But all things being equal, would you rather spend $3700 on these or on a set of Are... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? @jimijam good for you, however, I did read this blurb on a site selling replacement polycaps for the AR-9 (I have a set and plan on opening them up to see which capacitors were used. Mine are circa 1982, so I don’t know if they might be Callins or... | |
| Totally Ridiculous....Auditions on YouTube! Just too many variables to draw any real world conclusions. Microphones sound different at various price points and the preamps they are plugged into are just as important. And you have to wonder does the YouTuber even know how to properly operate... | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range Outlaw Audio’s RR2160 MKII Stereo Receiver. $999. Plenty of power, a decent DAC, and a good phono stage. 110W/channel into 8 Ohms, 165W/channel into 4 Ohms. | |
| DAC recommendations I've often wondered if Steve Jobs were still alive, would Apple have spent the money out of their loaded saddlebags and developed an "Apple Music Connect" app? Steve always wanted to keep things easy and a "no brainer" for consumers, but the curr... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? Engineering wunderkind Bob Carver was not impressed. That's enough for me. He says only a bat might hear a slight difference now. That MQA was changed from its demonstration algorithm when it first rolled out to how it is being currently implement... | |
| The revolution has begun! " It changes PCM to PWM in software and then drives a GaN based class D output stage." So, only PCM? Can't just take in the more analog sounding (your mileage may vary) DSD and be done with it? And if it can drive a GaN based class D output sta... |