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| Integrated amp Depends on what Hegel amps you are using. The later Hegel’s (H300 or more current H360 or later) are very good with good power reserves for demanding speakers. | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl I think I’ve had a dozen different turntables in my past and have an album collection of 40 years. I just sold my Hanss T-60 tt and everything associated with it except for my albums, which I’m selling now. Just because you buy an album doesn’t me... | |
| Alternatives Software for iTunes on Mac Audirvana has sounded superior to iTunes for years, especially when it started reading the music instead of having iTunes do it. ITunes for the car and maybe during a flight is ok. Try doing anything hires/dsd/mqa thru iTunes, you can’t. ‘I got ri... | |
| VPI Uni-Pivit Tone Arms I’ve had a few vpi unipivot arms with the last 1 being the 10” 3D arm. They had the funky way of doing antiskating but the newer arms actually come with antiskate setup. The ears are used for balancing the horizontal stance of the arm or just move... | |
| A moderate priced dac If you want a dac that would compete with dacs under $10k for features and sound, look at the ps audio DS jr. what other dac is fpga based, has Ethernet built in, is a Roon endpoint, can hook up directly to an amp (does sound better thru a preamp ... | |
| Is integrated the future for 2 channel audiophiles? Been there done that many times over the last 40+ years. I’ve always went back to separates. Integrated amps have been getting better but you also have many limitations with them. Lately for me it’s been the power. I was happy with my Hegel H300 u... | |
| Fedex issues Gdnrbob-the email from the vendor did show my correct address where they were going to ship it to so I thought i would get it until fedex informed me that it was delivered, and it wasn’t to me. The shipping guy who actually created the label used ... | |
| How To Proceed With Room Treatments Not everything has to be a trap. You want a mix of absorbing as well as diffusion. Every room has areas where bass is a problem (corners for example). Then you have 1st reflection points and this could be the sidewalls, ceiling and floor.GIK and A... | |
| PS Audio Revises Marketing to a Direct Sales Only Model Get the bhk 250 over the parasound, I did 10 months ago. But only your ears will tell you which 1 is better. | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? I just sold my TT and all related accessories last night. I had the Hanss T60 which weighed 150lbs so the guy drove 8 hours 1 way to pick it up. Very nice tt and very nice sounding setup. I just never used it. I have the new $150 Led Zeppelin boxe... | |
| Buyer is claiming damage that was done by him! The last dozen sales, I take pics of how the items are packed, serial #’s, outside pics of the boxes, and a short video of the piece playing. I always send with insurance and adult signature required. I always send the pics and short videos to the... | |
| WAF Speaker suggestions Most of the speakers mentioned in this thread are just square boxes. If you like your current speakers sound keep them because other than the Sonus and the higher end B&W’s that was mentioned, they all look the same. Sonus will have a darker s... | |
| Bits bits bits from Upscale Audio I agree with the article but there are some miscalculations in it.For example: if you look at the # of bits per second that are read from a music file, they are around 800Kbps. Timing is everything when dealing with transfers of any data. If a pac... | |
| AC Dedicated Line I don’t agree that running 1 - 20amp circuit is all you need. Without knowing all the equipment you have today or you will get in the future, why only put in 1 circuit when running wire for 2 or more circuits isn’t that much more?I agree, you need... | |
| Novice Question: Dedicated Streamers I haven’t cracked open a cd case in over 10 years, unless it was to rip it to a hard drive. I had a $3000 CD player from Classe back then and sold it. Back then, a Mac running pure music or amarra was the ticket. Then Audirvana came out. Went the ... |