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| Best bourbon? George T. Stagg. It will redefine your understanding of what bourbon can be. But drinker beware: 141 proof or so. | |
| Who makes the best passive volume control? Atmasphere,A little OT but how can you tell if an active is controlling the cable in the way you describe? Any good way of measuring this? In something like Stereophile's equipment measurement, any particular that will give agood idea of cable con... | |
| best class a amp for a grand? Pass Aleph 30s come up for around that much, or just a touch more than that. A fabulous amp, particularly the highs. | |
| finding the right speaker? Joe can you give us a better idea of your listening preferences, room size, associated equipment (especially your amp)? That will help us give better advice | |
| DAC's, i'm lost Great recommendations above. Haven't owned or heard a Tranquility (sadly), but I thought it was worth pointing out that it is limited to 16/44.1 (CD quality) output. Most other DACs here can do 24/96 or 24/192. The significance of this will depend... | |
| Preamp gain ??? This will depend a lot on the your speakers. How efficient are they? Depending on the speakers, high gain might mean that you are only able to use a small fraction of the range of your volume control (which would be the case if your speakers are v... | |
| First Watt to Pass Labs Larryi, Yes, as someone with high efficiency speakers, I have certainly found that I prefer amps with lower gain for the volume control reasons you mention. With some higher gain amps I found myself using inline -10dB attenuators. Now with my Atma... | |
| Bargain Basement, Giant Killing DACs for PC Audio If you are looking primarily for PC audio, I'd suggest going with something that has async USB that can handle hi-res files (24/96 or even better 24/192). Otherwise you could invest in a USB-SPDIF converter, such as the M2Tech HiFace. Musical Fide... | |
| Best preamp for 2k-3k My preamp search ended when I got a Musical Fidelity kW hybrid linestage from Walter at Underwood HiFi. Combined the best characteristics of active and passive pres that I'd tried in my system and did so much more to improve the sound. You can che... | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Atma-sphere S-30. Fabulous sound and able to get a jumper to lower the gain, which gives me more fine-grained control of the volume on my pre-amp. Stopped looking, but I am saving my pennies for the upgrade from MK II to MK III.1 | |
| Greenville, SC You might want to post something over at AudioCircle. I believe there are some Carolina audiophiles active over there. Ed Schilling is in SC somewhere too, and his Horn Shoppe Forum might be a good spot to find some other folks. | |
| Music to die to If I wanted to go the way of the dark pagan spirits, Sunn 0)))Plumbs the depths of the bass frequencies. Trance inducing stuff. | |
| Tube preamp for Pass Labs amp I have loved the hybrid tube kW linestage from Musical Fidelity with the Pass and FirstWatt gear I have paired it with. Check out the great Michael Fremer review in Stereophile. There are other nice reviews of this around the web too. | |
| First Watt to Pass Labs If your speakers are 104db efficient and don't have a passive crossover, I would check out the F2J or F1J. F2J is one of the best I have heard in my system. Easily the best solid state. | |
| Most sophisticated and intelligent musician Tom Yorke and Bjork come to mind. |