nycjlee
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| Whats playing on your system today? A little Oscar Peterson Trio & Alice in Chains Unplugged. | |
| Recommedations for bestt interconnects for phono cable inputs at $100 or less +1 Audio Sensibility Impact SE. I brought their balanced phono cables. Good quality and sounds great. If memory recalls, they use OCC copper. | |
| Balancing time for music: Discovery/acquisition vs. listening I think Apple slightly edges out Spotify in sound quality. Amazon music is the worst. Tidal's sound quality is excellent and for sure sounds better than Spotify especially if you have DAC to match. I think you get what you pay for. For me the ... | |
| Coherent Speakers from Canada No info on their website. The one image on their site, the speaker looks like a Snell type E clone. Similar to some of the Devore and Audio Note speakers. | |
| Integrated amp under 2000.00 used Maybe a used Ayre A7xe could work for you. You can one for less than $2K used these days. I also like the Hegel, they sound great for their price point. | |
| Out of these two cartridges which would you choose? You might want to just replace the head on your 2m bronze, if you go black. Should save you some money. I'm actually pretty happy with my 2m bronze. Good luck | |
| Why are Harbeth speakers expensive while its drivers are not. The tweeter is made by Seas to spec but I think the Radial2 drivers are custom designed and made by Harbeth. For what it's worth, Harbeth speakers are like really nice furniture that happens to sounds nice too. Honestly, I don't think they are w... | |
| Up to $4500 burning a hole in my pocket Have you tried Vandersteens? The Vandersteen 3a may work in your budget. | |
| Integrated amp upgrade I think the Hegel H360 is a solid integrated. I was going to purchase that amp and spent many hours listening to it. I ended up getting an Ayre integrated (got a good deal) but the H360 was my first choice. You can't go wrong with it. | |
| Need to upgrade Phono section of Rogue Cronos mag The Cronus Magnum 2's phono section was pretty good I thought. Which CM model at you using? | |
| Seeking advice/tips on improving sound quality Are you using a macintosh CD player? It sounds like you definitely have a source problem. If a CD player sounds good through your pre-amp, I don't think it's your pre-amp or anything down stream. Let us know what kind of budget your thinking abou... | |
| USB "A" and "B" to RCA adapter I could be wrong but I don’t think this is possible. USB is a digital cable, RCA is not. | |
| I am in the market for a $ 5-6 k monoblock amplif +3 on the Rogue Audios especially, if you're looking for a tube sound. Fantastic sound in that price range, you need to really take a listen. If you're looking for a SS amp, I would put the Parasound JC1 and Hegel H20 on your list. | |
| Seeking advice/tips on improving sound quality Just to share my story. I started off using a Mac mini to an Ayre Codex DAC, but I wasn’t happy with the SQ, too much USB jitter. I was thinking about adding all kinds of tweaks like linear power to the Mac and other tweaks (USB isolators, Sonore ... | |
| Seeking advice/tips on improving sound quality I would look at getting a nice dedicated DAC to connect to your pre-amp and then connect the IMAC to the DAC (USB is fine). The better the DAC, the better sound your going to get. Honestly, I don't think upgrading the software on your Mac is goi... |