overthemoon
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| Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary? @vonhelmholtz indeed and I personally wished that wasn't the case because it would make it so much easier! | |
| Would you spend you money on modest brand new car or rather buy top notch vintage one? A vintage car is very different than a top notch used car... And vintage audio equipment is very different than top notch used audio equipment. For me it depends - I've bought new equipment and have bought used equipment. I have a good relation... | |
| Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary? @cleeds Thanks for providing an example supporting ‘it depends’. | |
| Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary? Many folks have said what I've experienced: It depends; the equipment must have differentially balanced circuitry to have significant benefit from balanced cable There is 6 db more level Experiment - we all are people with biases. I've first... | |
| Kanta No.1 vs Olympica Nova 1? You have a wonderful quandary! Enjoy the process. I am on my third Sonus faber speaker and love them ~ yet there are so many excellent speakers it is hard to not wonder what other options sound like. | |
| Looking for a preamp with XLR connections There's a lot of incredible preamps for $10k. XLR connections doesn't mean fully differential balanced circuitry There are excellent solid state preamps and furthermore there are exception preamps "plus" that include phono stage, DAC or DAC/... | |
| Analog vs. digital My experience varies I've heard records sound incredible such as 180 gram Black Sabbath Paranoid, Daft Punk, Rush, S&M II by Metallica and the Dave Matthews Band. But it wasn't always better than digital - after I upgraded my turntable and... | |
| Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno @arcticdeth Hooray for Cerwin Vegas! | |
| McIntosh Group purchased by PE firm I'm surprised by the reactions - McIntosh has been owned by Private Equity prior to this transaction. | |
| Best turntable for the buck I'd consider 3 specific areas: Phono stage - this can make a huge impact alone Table - I recognize you have a modified RP3, I upgraded a little while ago to the P8 and the improvement in the plinth and tone arm over the P6 was noticeable as was ... | |
| Differences between models of expensive vs inexpensive DACs I think so because I've upgraded from streamer/dac twice. Started with the Node2i, moved to a Moon 280D and upgraded again to a Moon 390. The preamp/amp and speakers have a big impact...those have been upgraded as well. | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media Thank you to all who posted - lots of good information and different approaches. I ditched the CD player in the early 2000s - I burned my CDs and used an Apple TV with a hard drive as my music server in addition to my LPs. I experimented with st... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @vanson1 isn't your statement true for all audio equipment - turntables, speakers, amplifies, preamps. phone stages, streamers and cassette decks? I view everything is a compromise based on criteria and a high impact criteria is cost. | |
| Cable curmudgeon I wish I didn't hear the difference in cables - then again I appreciate the impact. If you feel the same or different - I hope you enjoy the music! | |
| Best streamer for a returning audio guy Welcome to the hobby! I like analog - I still have the first album I ever bought. And I avoided streaming for several years. And streaming is awesome for many reasons and access and ease of use is certainly high up there on the list of reasons.... |