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| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds The only reason there are still class AB amplifiers is practical: anything above 50watts pure class A (and that's already A LOT to ask) becomes huge, extremely heavy, extremely hot, probably unreliable, and uses way too much electricity. There's j... | |
| Perlisten D212 Subs (2) in the house. So, you basically spent more than 10.000$ on something you didn't need and is now relegated to second system duty? Wow, I wish I had your life! Please don't take it bad, I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything ;-) enjoy! | |
| Has anyboyd used this amp, your thoughts on it If you want something that is cheap, has tubes in it, and has headphone jack, plus plenty of other functions (including bluetooth, optical, coaxial, and phono inputs!), go for Dayton Audio HTA100 (not the "HTA100BT which is the older model) Grant... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions I’m very fond of the heavily modded Trends TA10.1 I use in my main system. With a nice linear power supply, it sounds marvelous driving the 500 to 20KHz range in my trip-amped, very high sensitivity system. If you don’t need much power, that TA202... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong Siemens Klangfilm Euronor is arguably on of the most coherent, organic, transparent and dynamic speaker there is, and it dates back from the 1940's... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? @willywonka come on... it's one of the easiest things to verify. Just put in a brand new tweeter on one side, and keep the old, used tweeter on the other side, and see if you can get any decent center image. I guarantee you won't! And you can do... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? Absolutely real. I once had to replace the diaphragm on one of my previous horn tweeters; well the fixed channel was harsh and piercing for a couple days, skewing the stereo image to that side, until it settled down and both channels started playi... | |
| Fosi Audio V3 @mahgister I have a friend who is using a 125$ tube preamp from Douk Audio in his main system. He swapped a few caps, put better tubes in, and is super happy! I think the model is "Douk Audio P1" :-) | |
| USB Cable @tvrgeek I’m surprised of the mediocre results you get from Fosi V3... I know someone who drives Magnepans with it, another guy who drives Martin Logans, and they are both very happy with the performance. I never heard the V3 (not yet) but I bou... | |
| As An Experiment I Stuck A Few Things Under My Pre-Amp And Am Now On A Quest I really like some chinese copies of Finite Elements "Ceraballs" (of course if you have the dollars you can buy the real thing) in combination with Ikea Aptitlig bamboo cutting boards | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER I would never run my system without a GOOD preamp. To me it's like the secret ingredient that ties everything together, like corn starch in a sauce. But, you need a very good preamp and to me it makes sense if you have to budgetise to have a pr... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? There's as much difference between different DACs as between different amplifiers, preamplifiers... a DAC is not just a chip. The elements around it (input chips, clock, power supply, and last but not least analogue output stage) all have an impac... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? Live music is loud, effortless and impactful. Small speakers never really are. I can never be fooled into thinking I'm in the room with the musicians as I listen to small speakers. To me, small systems are the equivalent of a very nice photogra... | |
| Integrated Amp ideas for a very young audiophile All you need is an Aiyima A08 Pro. It's small, it's cheap, it's solid; it's a powerful all-in-one class D amplifier with Bluetooth receiver. I've bought one for a friend and it sounds amazing/. https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0B93RRWVD/ref=redir_... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation Like you I have a low power, high efficiency system, with fully horn loaded speakers. After playing with various cables including Duelund, which I found charming but ultimately too colored for my taste, I’ve now found audio nirvana with some "Chin... |