retiredfarmer
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| Advice? Less than $4k, solid state preamp, neutral to gentle Well personally I like the Ayre k1xe better than the newer ones and you should find one within your budget. If you find a k1 it can be brought up to the ce standard. The k3 is also nice but it is a step.down but still very good. If you like Ay... | |
| Lost it to Black Friday! Ordered it! Black Friday is wonderful good for you. | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? I had one system that cables didn't .after but I must say I wo that system selling magazine subscriptions in junior high so it goes with out saying how good the system was. Lol | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System Basically in my opinion Basically with hi fi you are turning a formula one car. When it is all done right it is very impressive but wrong all you have is an old Chevy, Ford or Pontiac. So quite likely setup or matching etc etc was wrong or p... | |
| DH Labs I have a long rca on my home theater setup to the sub it is the dhlabs subsonic. That made the sub both tuneful and go way deeper I had gold furutech ends put on it I was shocked how good it was for how little I paid. I also have a 6 foot pair ... | |
| Best sounding CD player Well I have a sonic frontier dac and transport three with an out board power supply it is one of the best five cd playback systems I have ever heard most of that group of five systems have the ultra analog chip set in them. They all retailer f... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? Lol I had a guy over that was bragging about everything he had was bigger and better when he got to bragging about his cocktail glass that was time to take everyone for a listen to Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald One loo and it was humblin... | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? @kota1 if anyone praises a speaker that Floyd o Toole and the national research councils anicocic chamber was involved with the development of that said speaker I know what there system sounds like! 💩 | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? First off many of the Canadian speakers are designed in the national reaseach councils anicocic chamber. Every one of them sounds terrible because people don't listen to them in the same anicocic chamber in there home. But if someone aspires... | |
| Tube preamp options This is another I would look for also world class. https://tmraudio.com/components/preamplifiers/line-magnetic-25-b-stereo-tube-preamplifier-129-a-remote/ | |
| Tube preamp options @upnorthsound sgreed canary is almost never talked about here or for that matter in North America. This is likely one of the very best made in the world. I have the ca 801which is one model down I have head many if these early model canary prea... | |
| What is the Best Sounding Stand Mount Speaker in the world? For tone and beauty I ha e have to look along time to have my phase dome poison speakers bested. For speed and musicality I would go with a set of harbeth sch 5 speakers on sound ankor stands. | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... Well you have found what I have found it is plain and simple very hard to get a streamer close to a high quality cd player. From what I have heard of streaming and the cd player you have good luck finding something as good. | |
| What do you do when you inherit some gear that you don’t want. All I can say is you are right to sell the paradigm speakers unless they goy way better in the ensuing years I had a pair of studio 100s they were there top speaker back in the day and they were awful. They are just another cheap Canadian spe... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming A router that will actually sing a beautiful song. https://www.festoolcanada.com/products/routing/routers |