patrickcarey
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| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? This is an interesting conversation. There’s not as much overlap here as I expected they would be… That is to say there is a high degree of variation. The best integrated amp I have heard to date is the ECI 6D from electrocompaniet. | |
| Battle of the Older DAC I have a very old Mark Levinson before it was Mark Levinson which is called proceed. I’ve read that the dacs Are and can be very good on ML equipment and I can affirm that is true. How could I possibly know? I have a proceed AVP and avp 2 both of... | |
| Next step up on the streaming food chain? I’m not sure it’s the best advice to upgrade your $4000 streamer to something more expensive. As always trust your ears and try to gear first before you buy if you can. I have an G1 and G2 and I have heard fundamentally no difference between the... | |
| No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy? The FTC ruling is an attempt I think to weed out the obvious conflict of interest of giving great reviews for free stuff. So on the surface, it’s actually a good policy. I wonder how it will be enforced however, and if it is enforceable. Regard... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off I’m not sure if this has been mentioned already, but I’ve had this exact experience and my sister pretty much always sounded better after 8 o’clock at night. I do use conditioner and that helps some. Pretty good success with running my stereo of... | |
| It Pegged the Needle on My "BS Meter". Now, I'm A Believer. Ever Happen to You? Yeah, great question. I stayed with AQ as a brand and tried a number of their cables, both interconnects and speaker cables. I have heard enough to know now that , for example, the AQ 'water' cables do roll off slightly.. or maybe it's the mor... | |
| It Pegged the Needle on My "BS Meter". Now, I'm A Believer. Ever Happen to You? I’m late to the party. After reading through this thread, I really like the comments here. It’s pretty rare to see such a cohesive group and intelligent commentary. I will say that on my “journey” I was a cable denier and interconnected denier... | |
| HoloAudio Cyan 2 DAC I saw the Hans video too. I think he said, "you will not be disappointed". I agree. New record day on Youtube also has a good review. I have used an old ps audio dac, the dl 3, and it is much better than that. I also demoed a PS Audio Stell... | |
| HoloAudio Cyan 2 DAC /still looking for feedback? I have one. | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords There have been so many Internet discussions about cables and interconnects. I think it’s important one to acknowledge that we don’t know hear the same. For example, or recent hearing test for me Shows That I am a couple decibels down and hearin... | |
| Cary SLI-80 tweaks and improvements? Woah hold up. For the op: DAC , cables and interconnects can make a large difference. I have an older Cary dac for the exciter head phone amp. It’s decent, but I’m not claiming It’s great. My point is that it sounds warm and smooth, but it in ... | |
| Fully DC-Powered Home Audio System On occasion I run my entire stereo from a Yeti 1000x. Depending on the equipment, cabling and music there is a usually an audible difference in the quality of the sound. Sometimes it is subtle, sometimes the difference is impressive. Interes... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? @tony1954, @ghdprentice Glad to read you have a similar experience. Your methodologies are good. Great sound is certainly a measure of personal taste, and ongoing tuning over time. Everything is a component. All the interconnects and hardw... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? Although I didn't realize it at the time I was and have been a cable denier. for the longest time I would cheap out and get Amazon basics cables and then get mad at my equipment because it didn't sound the way I wanted it to . A couple of months... | |
| Is there such a thing as a good medium priced music streamer? Hell yes. if you separate the streamer from the DAC. blue sound node is super popular for good reason. i also have the WiiM and it is excellent. no need to spend much on a streamer unless you want a lot of bells and whistles like lcd touc... |