paulfolbrecht
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| Please recommend a musical sub for me The TBI subwoofers are by far the most musical I've heard. In fact they are the only subs I've heard that deserve such a qualifier IMO. Well, maybe the $10K Wilson Benesch Torus also. | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. The c-core trannies are a luxury I don't have. The IE trannies will save $1K at least and, well, this DAC is still a rather amazing performer. More so when fed hi-res, but *well-recorded* redbook material is really quite satisfying. I didn't think... | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Where are you getting $5K?My AN Kits DAC 2.1C Sig cost me a bit over $2K. Yes, you have to build it, but I am pretty sure there are AN factory DACs under $5K.I feed my DAC with a Mac Mini going through an Empirical Off Ramp. This gives me 18/96 ca... | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Chillinimrod, I've owned both the components you're looking at. My honest advice to you is to buy an Audio Note DAC - more musical than either and by a wide margin IMO. | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Yes, exactly. That has nothing to do with "poor performance". Reliability and performance are not really related. | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Tvad, while Trelja has certainly been vocal about his issues with Consonance, I for one don't ever recall him complaining about "poor performance" of the products. I don't own any now but many of the Consonance products are very, very good, especi... | |
| Are mono tube amps my best choice? Min's WE91 300B monos were probably the best 300B amps I've heard (though the 300B was never my favorite DHT and I haven't had a lot of them) but I still prefer the 45. | |
| Are mono tube amps my best choice? If the Silverlines are not intended for SET and do not have a friendly impedance/phase in the bass you might get some significant colorations with a high Zout SET amp... | |
| Are mono tube amps my best choice? 1) More important than a speaker's sensitivity rating is its impedance & phase curves.2) IF the speaker is an easy load - and Silverline supposedly makes speakers that are - a 9W SET could well be a very good match at 93.5 dB/W.Let's do some q... | |
| Tonian Labs TL-D1 Jaybo, you must have never heard a really exceptional piece of gear to be so jaded. I'm quite sure you've never head Tonian speakers, eh? | |
| Help with final choice of efficient speakers Audiokinesis - thumbs up.I would really, really recommend you make an effort to hear both Audio Note and Tonian. The Tonian TL-D1s are an absolutely astonishing speaker - and for the $, crazy. | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB Al, I think that is quite a good point.I would say that the benefit of the ultrasonic information is the real boon, though, at least for users of DACs with no filters like me. | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB I think differences between 24/96 & 192 would have to be very slight.1st of all, it's only a difference of 2x the information.2nd, 24/96 is really a staggering amount of information.Then again, "hunches" and feel don't count for anything in th... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB I'm playing 24/96 files (recorded from vinyl by me) via my Mac Mini to an Empirical Off Ramp to my Audio Note Kits DAC. The AN DAC does use an 18 bit chip, so it truncates, but note that 18/96 is still more than 8x the information of redbook.This ... | |
| I moved now Kef sound bad David,Can you get your old place back? |