plaw
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| Tube Rolling the Jolida/Black Ice dsd Dac @jjss49 Thank you for the advice. I am going to try some tube rolling and I just ordered a new cable - I can see how this dac would sound great with speakers like Focal / Magico / Elac - speakers that may be more analytical - but thus far it doe... | |
| Tube Rolling the Jolida/Black Ice dsd Dac I just purchased the Black Ice DAC - so far pretty let down. The bass got really boomy. Can't make the WIFI connect. A/B'ed with my OPPO 105 - the internal Oppo DAC sounds much tighter in the bass. Of course, no returns at Underwood HiFi. May... | |
| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store What a pig dealer. Their markup is at least 25% for consignment, 40% on new. Just greedy. I will remember the Sunny name and keep it on my list of dealers to avoid. If I was ARC I would cancel them as a dealer also - leaves a bad taste in my ... | |
| Node 2i VS Lumin D2 I have the node 2i, the internal DAC is pretty rank, so I ran it through my OPPO 105, huge improvement - I was pretty happy with that. I just got the Black Ice (Jolida) it is on sale right now for $679, it has only been running two hours - so I a... | |
| Audio Research Sold I am totally happy about the sale. I don't think I would purchase another ARC product if they stayed with McIntosh. I am more interested in audio quality than a "lifestyle" product. The sale will allow McIntosh to develop more products for the... | |
| PS Audio BHK lacking.. It should be better than a Rotel, I had the 250 for about 2 days and returned it. In all fairness, I did purchase it used from The Music Room. No problems returning. It just is underpowered. I had sold an old Adcom 555ii which would beat it ha... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? Denon and Marantz - awful. I used to think Onkyo was a better budget A/V receiver, but after using Anthem - no contest for Anthem. I A/B'ed Dynaudio Special 40's with Martin Logan Motion 40's - Motion 40 smoked the Dynaudio - that surprised me. ... | |
| Trivializing AudiogoN...........ie: what I have is the best... I only share my experience - I have purchased some pretty poor products - I wish more would share their bad experience with dealers too so. It is nice to know honest reviews of products. Here are my favorites:- Anthem AV Receivers- Classe Sigma ... | |
| Badly recorded albums needing upgrading I agree with comments about Layla - I sold it - just a rank recording.Here are my surprises on SACD:Clapton - SlowhandRoxy Music - AvalonDylan - Slow Train ComingAll of them I never expected to be so incredibly superb. | |
| Albums that you listen to straight through / start to finish whenever you put them on! Bob Dylan - Hard RainBob Dylan - Street LegalAldous Harding - DesignerVan Morrison - WavelengthDire Straits - CommuniqueDire Straits - Dire StraitsChris Whitley - Living with the LawWillie DeVille - Sportin' LifeI just listened to The Black Crowes... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? I had an ARC LS27 - beautiful (recently upgraded to another ARC). I tried a Parasound Halo P-6 (solid-state), awful, lost $500 in 30 days with that piece. I auditioned a Rogue Audio from http://crescendoaudio.net/ - a RP-7. I think they marked ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Started with Bob Dylan live from 1981 London on CD. Trouble No More.Then EC Was Here - Eric ClaptonFinally played Get Happy by Elvis Costello on MOFI 45 RPM - sounded great. | |
| RMAF 2019! I attended the show with my kids, so I will make some comments from their perspective. They wanted to spend most of their time in the headphone area - they loved the HiFiMan Headphones. They also thoroughly enjoyed the new Manley Headphone Amp. ... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load I have a Classe Class D Sigma Amp 2 driving Wilson's which I am told dip down to 2 ohms. They sound GREAT.Here is what Classe states: All amplifiers except the CA/CT-5300 have a virtually linear doubling of output between 8 ohms and 4 ohms but s... | |
| Rogue audio RP-7 versus PS Audio BHK preamplifier I auditioned the RP-7 for a weekend. Superb! It absolutely blew away the Parasound I had (I promptly sold it). I returned the RP-7 when I found an LS27 used - which sounds fantastic, but I think the RP-7 sounded better to be quite honest. I am... |