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| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? I donʻt know about endgame. Thereʻs always another audio wonder out next year thatʻs supposed to put all the others to shame. With your budget, Iʻd sell off my electronics stack, buy a pair of the Dutch & Dutch 8c, get your room analyzed... | |
| Streamers and software Most here hate my take on this. All of these streamers are just dedicated computers, mostly running Linux with the vendorʻs user interface on top of it. Bits is bits. They love to tout this $5000 wonder versus that $3500 wonder. And of co... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? There was once a journalist who interviewed Count Basie. Like many writers, he wanted to get deep into the emotions and such, considering Basie to be this Great Artist. When he asked Basie for the meaning of his music, Basie replied in just thre... | |
| Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp For $3k, you could build a set of SEAS Thor loudspeakers. Get the kit from Madisound. Theyʻre roughly equivalent to the Joseph Audio Perspective ($14k). Designed by Joe DʻAppolito. | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mclinnguy I was unfamiliar with Grimm. Easy to find on Google. They are twice the price of the D &D 8c and 50% more than a fully built and delivered Linkwitz LX521 system. If youʻre going to search out the Grimm, you owe it to yourself... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mclinnguy You must be looking at a very old photo of my rig. The Linn left me years ago. Now running a Rega P5. Iʻm soon to sell off the record collection and table. Trying to simplify my life. I do hear differences between vinyl and digital... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mgrif104 Expectations create reality. If you expect some thing to make a certain kind of change, then thatʻs what youʻre looking for and will likely get. Computers process and transfer data. Bits is bits. The sound all depends on your DAC. ... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. You realize of course, that all these megabuck streamers are just Linux machines with a dedicated interface. I paid $130 for an 8 gb memory tiny PC from Amazon, with a 128 GB flash drive. I installed Ubuntu Linux on it and hung an external drive... | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid Good speakers are Gawd-awful expensive. Because you are bi-amping already, I recommend that instead of taking out a 2nd mortgage to buy new speakers and having to figure out who you can dump your old ones on, get yourself a miniDSP DDRC24 active ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I run Ubuntu Linux on a $125 PC I got from Amazon. My music library is on a USB drive I hang off of it. Of course it can stream. Linux is free. The Clementine music player looks a lot like iTunes, but I run JRiver for about $30. I always laug... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move I have a couple of suggestions in your price range. The first is the Linkwitz LX521 system, which you can readily afford as a DIY system. You can buy it fully pre-built and delivered to your doorstep, with amplification, for about $21k or so, bu... | |
| Using a power strip in an old home that was build back in 1955 It's always a Bad Idea to not have grounded power circuits. Good surge protectors are a good idea, but you really need to upgrade your wiring. Really. That change to the wiring code w as done for a reason. You are risking a whole lot more than... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear I get it about how "vintage" gear is questionable. One of the most enjoyable systems I've ever heard had a Mac C22 preamp, Marantz 7 power amp driving a pair of late 70's KEF Calinda loudspeakers. Voices and stringed instruments sounded magical.... | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisbad50-linkwitz-lab-orion-v2-full-range?refsource=hifishark | |
| New speakers for a new start? Get into a Linkwitz LX521 multi-amplified system. $100k sound for a price we mere mortals can afford. Really. You can build the kit from scratch, for as little as $6k, or you can just buy a turn-key system for about $21k, which is actually a b... |