overthemoon
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| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? Two thoughts “Fair” is subjective Price of something is based on the market and specifically the customer in your scenario there are many incredible amplifiers. I’ve heard some amplifiers at $20-40k and the overall systems were 6 figures ... | |
| Maybe this is the winter you build something! I’m building an appreciation for music…day by day | |
| Order of importance and budget percentages I focused on components first then cables. What are you envisioning for your new system? | |
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room @northman Working with a good audio dealer is excellent advice. My local dealer is really good and that matters if you have questions, problems or upgrade or down grade | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Black Sabbath Paranoid | |
| Power cords or power conditioner I enjoy music and have tried power cords and power conditioners. I had a furman power distributor- perhaps more of a surge protector than conditioner. Then I tried Shunyata Venom NR10 power cables on my DAC/ network player and I perceived an i... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin and all is good | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening to Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and thinks some Metallica S&M may be next | |
| How many turntables have you owned? 3 Dual CS 515 Rega RP1 Rega P8 | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? In my experience preamplifiers are as impactful as a source. I added a McIntosh C2600 versus a NAD C375 BEE integrated AMP and it was very noticeable and frankly reinvigorated my listening habits. | |
| McIntosh C52 to C53 Upgrade @mgattmch I think stay with the C52 as long as you can. I had C2600 and listened to the C2700 and the DAC module was the primary difference. And the DAC wasn't the key value for the unit to me...it was a it's function as a preamp with a phono st... | |
| Looking for Speaker Recommendations Listen to as many speakers as possible. I prefer silk dome tweeters - B&W, Focal and others can irritate my ears after long listening sessions. Devore Super Nines are speakers that really impressed me when hearing a Boulder integrated amp. ... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ I do notice better sound when system is on as well as when it’s ‘up to temperature’. Though it could also be I warm up into listening too! | |
| Best Way To Connect A Bluesound Node I used to have a Node2 and C2600 preamp. I found my best experience was ethernet cable to Node and I tried both optical and coaxial to the preamp and didn't notice a difference - I used optical. I preferred the DAC in the preamp over the DAC in ... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps I don't have the challenge you have. I would encourage you to give Moon a listen. I had McIntosh tube pre and SS amp. I upgraded to Moon 390 pre-amp/network player and M400 monoblocks. I notice I feel like I'm listening to music at lower vol... |