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| After fifty years… amazing. What high end audio can be. Nearly 70, and 50 years of audio experience, as a music lover and listener. A HiFi store owner, formally trained acoustical consultant, systems design architect and engineer, live sound engineer, home theatre enthusiast, and audiophile. Besides t... | |
| Which integrated for Wilson Sabrina's @audphile 1 1) People buy integrated amps specifically for the simplicity and integration, and to avoid having piles of boxes and cables. The 5805 has a full feature set of rather uncompromised design including analog, digital, linestage, headpho... | |
| Cartridge Recommendations for SME V Arm I am very happy with my Hana SH on my VPI Prime /JMW 10.5" 3D arm. Just listened to Sara Maclaclan's version of Hallelujah on the Leonard Cohen Memorial album. There are a couple paces where her voice and the piano could easily send a lesser combi... | |
| Floor Standing Speakers That Would Sound Good With the NAD Integrated Amplifier. The latest Monitor Audio Silver 7 300 or 500 are spectacular values and a good match for both your amp and room size. The dual 8" 500s go a bit lower and louder than the otherwise identical dual 6" 300s, but the 300s work better closer to rear wal... | |
| Which integrated for Wilson Sabrina's The Mark Levison 5805 250 W/ch 4 Ohms dual mono intrgrated. Impeccably designed and built, fully specced analog, mm/mc phono, and digital including 32/384, 11.2 mbits/sec DSD and MQA. At 62 lbs it lacks for nothing on the front end or power amp an... | |
| Has anyone tried the new Synergistic Research UEF Performance Enhancer - Ethernet Filter? For copper, digital zero is <300mV, digital one is >3.8V. That means anything below 300mV is ignored. Plugging into an unused switch port is ignored because the switch is 1) ignoring a passive component component. 2) Because a switch only al... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions I had a similar situation, only I limited myself to $5K. I decided on a VPI Prime and Hana SH. I have absolutely no regrets, even with the JMW 10.5" Unipivot arm. I handles the relatively low-compliance Hana MC easily. The two biggest advantages a... | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G. Stereophile didn’t put them in ’Class A’ for nothing. Amazingly clean, effortless sounding great soundstage. Dual-8s with dual ports mean more than adequate and room-tunable bass. For smaller rooms or placement nearer ... | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. 1) Pop/Rock - The Soundtrack to the movie 'Phenomenon'. Every cut is wonderful, and there's a broad swath of musical styles and artists. 2) Jazz - "Beyond the Missouri Sky' Charlie Hayden and Pat Metheny. Absolutely transcendent. 3) Classical -... | |
| Phono Cartridge for Luxman PD-171 Turntable The Hana SH (High Output) is an extraordinary value at $750. Not only does it sound great, image and have great dynamics, it is an excellent tracker and doesn't require a separate MC preamp. | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero I've been on both sides of this discussion, and they're both difficult. As a B&M business owner you have to worry about margins, revenue per ft2, and gross profit per hour. Even if your sales staff is not commission, you still have to make the... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable While we’re at it, here’s another good reference Digital to Analog Conversion https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/digital-to-analog-conversion "After DAC, the analog signal is sent to the anti-image analog filter, which is a lowpas... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable Oh, and as for my personal listening, I stream Amazon UHD because Prime and Qobuz because it's probably overall the best. My DAC uses the AK4490 DAC chip set to an unstressed 24-bit / 192 kHz (or DSD 5.6 MHz) in deference to the extra noise likel... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable @thyname "And please enlighten me, where else in cables we should look for a difference maker?" You shouldn't be looking at cables at all, you should be looking at Codecs, more specifically how a given codec has been implemented, and the containe... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable @thyname "Yes. Just like interconnects, speaker, and power cables can make a big difference. Rather than being a digital cable denier I’d suggest you try a better digital cable and use your ears rather than theory to make any conclusions. BTW, ... |