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| Amazon HD Lower Price I’m not giving Amazon my money for something like this. If I need a bag of organic sunflower seeds in 2 days, then Amazon is a necessary evil, but they’re not getting a slice of my music dollars and all that personal data too. Even if they integ... | |
| phase linear 500 watt per chanell amp @quadprod - great story! | |
| What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive? I love the excitement of he chase and when inspiration strikes, I often make a fast move, especially if there’s a ‘deal’ to be had. I got hyped on boutique SET amps without knowing anything about them too soon in my audio journey and impulsively b... | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? Also, these crazy field coil/AMT speakers from Wolf Von Langa called SONs I’m demoing right now. 15k euro, beautiful, very deep bass, wonderful in near field. | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? BBC type monitors of any size | |
| Keeping backup equipment? If I had more than one system, I’d go completely insane. | |
| Best Digital Interface The guy (Lucas Audio Lab) who made my Roon server from scratch insisted I stick to USB and forego i2s and any alternatives for the best digital output. I’m not technical enough to really understand it, but it sounds phenomenal into my usb tube da... | |
| So Hard to Decide on an Amp Vincent sv500 was my first amp. When I plugged it into a decent Furman power conditioner, it sounded so much cleaner. Maybe worth a try over whole new amp upgrade. | |
| How far over the limit can I go That ARC hour meter is a cool feature. I’m left guessing with my tube gear. | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? I’m using a Wells Audio Cipher tube dac right now. It replaced a Holo Audio May. Sounds more “real” and “natural” to me. Some will like the former, some the latter. Both $4k-5k. Designer of the Wells says he tubes he uses 12bh7 are more linear ... | |
| Integrated amp recommendations for harbeth 30.2 XD I haven’t personally used the devialet integrateds with my 30.2s, but since they have utilized software that is capable of adjusting the sonics specifically to the 30.2 (using their Speaker Active Matching capability), I am very curious. I’ve hear... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component Well, perhaps they were junk, and they were certainly not magico gold carbon fiber quality, but the omega single driver alnico FR speakers I had were nice, but had many weaknesses. Is Voxativ making something entirely different? If so, please educ... | |
| The myth of "best" in audio needs to be addressed by all of us @yyzsantabarbara great link, thanks! that about sums it up! | |
| The myth of "best" in audio needs to be addressed by all of us @tomic601 I take it back, I'm no tuner expert | |
| The myth of "best" in audio needs to be addressed by all of us I can think of one counter-example to my above screeds. The AM/FM tuner. There has to be a "best" in terms of picking up radio frequencies with most clarity, precision, and sensitivity. All measurable and I arguable, I'd imagine. Other parts of th... |