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| Vintage vs New Today’s best is tomorrow’s vintage. It sounds good today, take care of it and it’ll sound good tomorrow. Today’s worst is also tomorrow’s vntage, so you can’t generalize very well. Good is still good even if it’s not THE BEST! (He says as he ja... | |
| Internet cable Supra lan cables are an incredible value. Just bought 30m for less than $300 at madisound. I a/b tested it with $1000 jcat lan cable and preferred the Supra. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @nquery - I never upsampled anything though my holo may. So you may be right that’s where the may excels. | |
| Recommendations for speakers that sound great at lower volume levels. Low noise, low distortion, electrical synergy, a quiet room. The whole signal path is relevant for engaging low level music. Don’t just blame your speakers. | |
| British Integrated Amps They don't make integrateds as far as I know, but they are shoebox size or smaller and reputedly very musical: Crimson and DNM. British all the way. And not cheap. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @luisma - I personally think that’s a misconception about tubes, that’s it’s just for ‘tube flavor’ and electrically inferior to transistors in all important ways. Plenty of designers use tube output stages these days and some only tubes. MHDT, ... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC Hi all, I posted in this thread a while ago after purchasing my level 2 may. It was a good step up from the qutest and I enjoyed it for awhile. But it really is not the greatest dac out there, even at its price. I went to a wells audio cipher t... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @cudfoo - if your usb cable does not have the standard 5v line going through it, the may dac will not see it. I had to pass up a fancy usb cable that was designed without it (because it does not help sound quality). | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Before I started getting the silver bug, I truly enjoyed my Mogami and DNM copper cables. Very reasonable and not harsh in my system. | |
| Blown away by new Crimson 880 Amplifier and 710 Preamp! Between the crimson and the dnm gear out of England, I’m so curious… Love the lightweight minimalist design and form factor. | |
| Downsize Audio is making cables again! Never heard of it/him | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing You guys are all drunk, right? | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. Hard to go wrong these days. Features like usb input, balanced outputs, linear power supply, volume control options are probably what set apart dacs in this price range. | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? I am 100% streaming (Tidal and Qobuz via Roon). I think digital/streaming is even more complex than analog. Software, hardware, jitter control, Ethernet/WiFi, DACs, power supplies, all these can be optimized for best digital sound. I’m glad I f... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? OP, ask a sincere question, this forum will often give you lame dismissals from glib fools. Class of amp is not particularly relevant, in my experience. Lots of other variables that are more specific, but also resist easy generalization. But I j... |