onhwy61
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| Help a college student out! Component pairing ideas for Acoustic Energy AE500 Assuming your son is not yet an audiophile, then a WiiM Amp Pro is less than $400. It's a small box that will stream, has extra inputs and a built-in amplifier. It's a good quality product. | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback I would think it depends upon what your goals are. If someone was making an all out assault on the state of the art, then they would spend the majority of money on a turntable. There's a handful of $150k plus turntables, but phono stages seem to... | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? @calvinj , we all have our preferences, but if you browse the systems section you'll see that McIntosh and Sonus Faber are a very popular combination. Some very serious looking setups. | |
| Asymmetry Bad If you look at his system tcutter is far beyond the blanket stage. Congrats, a stunning looking setup. | |
| FM radio reception Radio Locator is a useful tool for gauging what is available at your location. | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? @calvinj since you see this a lot, please give a few examples of thrown together systems. | |
| First system, bought Yamaha AS-1200, wondering about what DAC to pair it with ? That's a reason to add a D/A, but why add a separate preamp? | |
| Focal Diva Utopia active speakers less than impressive. Should loudspeakers, or any other component, sound impressive? Just wondering if that's a good measure of quality. | |
| First system, bought Yamaha AS-1200, wondering about what DAC to pair it with ? Why do you want to add a preamp to an integrated amplifier? | |
| What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers To misquote, keep the signal path as simple as possible, but not simpler. Who out there uses a single driver loudspeaker with no electrical crossover? It's a far less cluttered signal path than the complex multi driver setup most people use. Bu... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! Does the plate amp have to be in the cabinet? | |
| New buy, no return policy I find it interesting that no dealers participated in this thread. It would be interested in hearing from a dealer as to the actual logistics of transporting and setting up 200+ lbs loudspeakers for an at home demonstration. Do they crate the lo... | |
| New buy, no return policy show room and order If it wasn't for the dealer performing the showroom function, how would you have known if you liked the Acoras? As I stated earlier, I think you made the right decision, as did the dealer. But at some level this is another... | |
| New buy, no return policy I think the OP and the dealer both made the right move for themselves. As detailed above there is much work and risk involved in doing an at home demo for expensive large loudspeakers. The buyer had a less costly alternative with the option to r... | |
| polishing pins of NOS tubes I don't have any experience with highly corroded pins, so I just insert the tube into the socket a few times. Are you all cleaning your interconnect pins in this manner? |