questforhifi
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| Class A amplifier alternative? Look for a Class A/AB amp. There are quite a few which are very powerful. They run the first 10 or 20 watts in Class A then switch over to Class AB. Off the top of my head are Pass Labs, Plinius, and I think Parasound. Ok stuff like your descri... | |
| Class A amplifier alternative? 300 watts @ 8ohms. Seems to want heavy class A bias budget $3k What your describing will be a multiple of your budget There is stuff in the class AB range that is "rated" at that kind of power output but I cant recommend them. Heck even some A... | |
| Budget High Current Power Cords The problem with referencing the PC shootout, It's not clear what he actually used the PCs on. Was it amps? preamps? source? | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? I have klipsch speakers and I think they are quite awful. Terrible for music with the exception of maybe rock and a few other genres. I tried a bit of everything and couldnt get them to sound good.I now use them exclusively for home theater and I ... | |
| Best SS Amp - Pass Labs X350.8 vs. Luxman M900u vs. Ayre VX-R Twenty I just recently cross shopped all these amps. Local hifi store had the demo Ayre for sale. I tried it out and while i didnt find much fault with it, i didnt find it engaging enough.A different seller has both the luxman and passlabs. Of these two,... | |
| Audioquest Dragon Powercord vs Hurricane Could you recommend the dragon HC for an integrated amp that uses a passive pre-amp? or is that still a no no | |
| Budget High Current Power Cords Is a HC powercord suitable for an integrated amp if the preamp portion is passive? | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? I have an m5 with the B&W sound system. Its actually decent. Better to go direct connect instead of airplay it sounds better. with that said, its fairly bright | |
| Wholesale prices Guys I’m pretty sure when he says the KEF Blade 1 hes referring to the big kef blades which msrp for $32kIn that case 14k is a phenomenal price and cheaper than I see even on the used marketI heard the kef blade 2 at a local dealer who was incredi... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 I was in the same predicament. I demo’d the DCS which I found very good but unfortunately I couldn’t demo Berkeley.A local dealer let me home demo a lumin x1 and to my surprise I found the lumin better... so now I own that. Punches above it's pric... | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 yea it's priced very aggressively. I'll probably look to the used market. Thanks for the input | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? As for the pre-amp, this is also difficult to put a value on. some ppl with higher end DCS or even something like the lumin x1 choose to skip the pre-amp all together and go straight to amp.Others will find that the pre-amp is the 'heart" of their... | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? It’s hard to say. It really depends on the chainIn a recent video series Jay compared a rogue audio class D amp to a high end amp. I dont remember if it was duel mono or not because he didnt specify the elite amp, but for sure it was over $30k vs ... | |
| Townshend Springs under Speakers ^^ correct | |
| To horn or not to horn I have owned the Klipsch rf7 3swhile its not the best/most high end horn speakers, they are still modern and come from a renowned horn speaker specialist companyI would have to say that for music they are some of the worst sounding speakers I have... |