roberjerman
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| Best amp/ IC's to go with my Thiel 2.4SB's Buy the Ayre V-5Xe and K-5e. This is what you have tried and are familiar with your Thiel's! Excellent amplification! Keep the K-5e stock (it is already a superb preamp!). Regarding IC's: contact HCM and see if they have any left of the AQ Silver ... | |
| Who Makes Class AB, DC design Here's a TRUE giant killer: Spread Spectrum Technology Ampzilla 2000 Mono's! The last and final design by the great designer James Bongiorno. I'd put these up against ANY $20K - 100K amps! Read the review in Sensible Sound! | |
| Modern audiophile records Pallbearer: The Foundations OF Burden (Profound Lore 2014) and its successor: Heartless (Profound Lore 2017) This is the best prog - doom - metal available today! Think Sabbath for the 21th century! I have Burden on a double L... | |
| What's your investment threshold? My last cable purchase was a set of five Audio Quest Silver Extremes for $500. HCM had them as a new "close out" for 25% of list (list price was $400 each!). Sounds fine to my "golden" ears! | |
| Tower Records I bought many CD's at the Stamford, CT Tower! They carried an amazing collection of silver discs: everything from classical to jazz and rock! Tower will be missed! I personally like going to a store for music shopping! | |
| Brand new to vinyl: Help! Also, the 1978 Columbia pressing of Floyd's The Wall makes a fine reference LP! | |
| Brand new to vinyl: Help! +1 gasbose! That Dynavector high-output mc cartridge will handily outperform ANY Ortofon mm! I myself have one in my collection of various cartridges! Just do a careful alignment and setup! Don't waste money on fancy cables! Buy an original US or... | |
| Old or new gear Buy a nicely restored pair of Dynaco Mk 3's. A classic design - 60 watts and excellent iron! Half the price of a Mac 275! I have a pair myself! Excellent resale value, too! | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! MQA's claim of "authenticity" (the little blue light) is plainly bogus! See FredericV's posts (Feb 20) on the Computer Audio site! | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! A money-grabbing scheme by THE BIG THREE (Warners - Universal - Sony) to get the innocent to buy the SAME music all over again! And a sneaky Trojan horse of DRM! | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera The two "Peters" (Aczel and Moncrieff) made a determined attempt to avoid "favoritism" and "commercialism". Check out The Audio Critic (TAC) and International Audio Review (IAR). Listening combined with measuring for honest and forthright assessme... | |
| To keep, upgrade or change I recommend a Pioneer PLX1000 TT. $700. Direct drive. Add the latest Grado MI cartridge ($100 - 200) and you will have a fine sounding system. Later, you can upgrade to an MC cartridge (Denon, Hana ...). | |
| re capping As an example: my Son of Ampzilla (circa 1977) is now going on its third year of daily use! Working perfectly well and sounding mighty fine! I bought it used with an unknown number of hours from the previous owner. Took a chance and plugged it str... | |
| re capping Transistor gear works and sounds best when left on 24/7. Electrolytic caps kept fully charged will function perfectly well and not degrade! Long periods of unuse are to be avoided. But they can often be restored by using a VARIAC to slowly ramp-up... | |
| NAA Clock Timing Improvements w/Asynchronous USB? +1 kijanki! Best explanation I've read so far on USB/DAC compatibility! |