nitewulf
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| Two integrated amplifiers, tube and solid-state connected to same speakers You need to manually connect and disconnect the speaker cables, that is the safest method. That’s my ideal setup, one high quality tube integrated and one high quality solid state integrated. SS will always be on, connect the tube when I’m in the ... | |
| Suggestions (based on experience) for power amp for Dynaudio Contour 20s, please I’ve heard them with PrimaLuna....very engaging and inviting. Nice and sweet. High resolution depending on source. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD But how did you compare? Is it the same mastered track, volume matched? Otherwise there is no valid comparison that I can think of. All the talk of air is always cool and all, but its just gibberish. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @ramtubes I am still a bit hazy on the power versus gain issue. If you increase the gain, are you not increasing the power output of the amp? So what then affects the power output, the speaker impedance only? In that case, how do we ensure that t... | |
| KT 150 impressions I think they are very linear. Basically you can't tell they are tubes. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Thoughts on the Stereophile measurements of this Luxman solid state amp?https://www.stereophile.com/content/luxman-l-509x-integrated-amplifier-measurements | |
| Hegel H360 or H590 or Constellation Inspiration Integrated 1.0 for Magico A3 @iar I am also interested in the Diablo 120 and the Luxman 509X. Could you tell me where you demoed these, and other similarly priced gear? And sound impressions? You can message me privately if you want.Thanks. | |
| Whats the FATTEST sounding Tube amp to warm up Lean speakers? Maybe just introduce an equalizer in the chain? | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? Eastern Electric Minimax. I have been using one for almost 10 years, Amperex 12AX7 or Mullard 12AX7 as the driver and GE12AX7 or EICO (Amperex made for EICO) 12AX7s for the buffer tubes interchangeably for the 10 years without any issues. No disce... | |
| Dynaudio C20 vs other monitors in the 4-7k range I also had the Focus 140's and found them too dark sounding and not really good for low volume listening. Very power hungry as well. While speaker shopping last year I heard the C20s and loved them, I think Dynaudio did change their house sound a ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... I agree, cartridge prices, specially MC, are nuts. They are so fragile that I can't imagine spending more than 1K on one...I have had a Denon 103r broken by kids, an SAE 1000LT and an Ortofon Quintet Blue needle broken during apartment moves. It'... | |
| Ayon vs Audio Research I was also interested in Ayon but there are a lot of reliability concerns as stated above. I'd suggest Prima Luna (new) in your price range, very well engineered and lots of support. ARC stuff is extremely well made obviously as well. | |
| The RME ADI 2-DAC 32Bit/768kHz Pro gear can be very good, they are ignored by audiophiles sure, but most of the music we listen are recorded and mixed using pro gear. | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Legacy Audio Signature SE's at this price point. Pretty easy to place as well. | |
| Best Rocking Speakers 15K and Under Congrats, I bought the Signature SEs from Audiodoctor. They are incredible speakers, they play everything well. |