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| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics I believe I got the second pair of M35s sold in the US. They have replaced the Magnepan 20.7s I was using previously. Sonically these are great sounding speakers with some limitations. I have had trouble with arcing in the panels playing classi... | |
| Gustard X30 disappointment I've owned the X26 and the R26 twice and I've never had any problems with Gustard. Great sounding DACs for the price. They are fairly high volume products sold world wide so it wouldn't be surprising if even 1 in 500 failed and those unlucky own... | |
| Puget Sound Audio Club bump | |
| Your favorite Cello recording This is a string quartet but if you like contemporary cello music it is hard for me to imagine you won't like this. Brooklyn Rider Four Elements | |
| Evoluition Acoustics at THE Show this year The System Three was my favorite speaker at the show. How much of that was the room and the associated electronics I have no idea but if I could spend that kind of money on a pair of speakers they would be on my short list. I felt they had elect... | |
| Anyone have experience to share regarding the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze MC cartridge? I own both the Cadenza Bronze and Black and I like the Bronze quite a bit better. But the cartridge I use now is Andy Kim's modified Denon DL-103 cartridge. In my system it outperforms all the Ortofon, Audio Technica, and Koetsu cartridges I ow... | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. I blew one of my BHK 300's back in December. Totally my fault, I apparently sent a massive static discharge through my system that also took out a couple of tubes in my preamp. I'm grateful the BHK 300's protection mode stopped it from getting t... | |
| DDC or Better Streamer? Personally I use an Innuos Pulsar even though I hate the Sense App. It simply sounds better than any other streamer I have tried and much better than Roon which is incredibly irritating since Roon is a vastly better interface. I use the Holo May... | |
| Best Holographic Speakers ~$7k per pair You have gotten a lot of genuinely terrible advice from people that I'm guessing have never heard a truly high end system. Assuming you can pull the speakers at least 60" from the back wall almost any panel speaker will be much more holographic t... | |
| Shakti Stone It does nothing in my system. | |
| Advices on 10 mhz Clocks I have the LHY OCK 2 and I think it is great. It has improved everything I have hooked it up to. Cables do matter. The LMR 240 is fine for 50 Ohm. The Harmonic-Technology DC III, 50 ohm is better but much more expensive. I didn't compare 75 o... | |
| Aurender N20 versus Innuos Zen NG FWIW, a friend lent me a Grimm MU2 and in my system it outperformed a Pulsar/Holo May KTE combination and provided all the benefits that Roon offers. Personally I think the Innuos Sense App is a joke with a minimal buggy interface but I continue ... | |
| Innuos Zen next-gen vs. Pulsar for streaming...? Directly comparing any Innuos product in a meaningful way is very difficult since they only support a USB output and I am unaware of any DACs that have two USB inputs. Consequently there is no real time A/B testing. Even if the Statement Next G... | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? So far there have been exactly two posts that specify whether they are measuring with dBA or dBC. Without specifying which standard you are using the numbers are meaningless. Almost all contemporary music that has real bass will measure 10-15 dB... | |
| Puritan 156 and Furman Don't plug the Puritan into the Furman. First, the Puritan is better than the Furman (I own a Furman Elite-15 PFi and a 156). Second, cascading power conditioners like that is very likely to rob your music of dynamics, especially the amplifiers ... |