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| Help me upgrade my beginner system! There is NOTHING wrong with the DAC in your Peachtree. It sounds better than you think. Of course, if you're hell-bent upon spending money, then by all means do so, but you'll be throwing it away. I run the early model Peachtree DAC-iT. Your ... | |
| Compact Floor-standing Speaker Recommendations under $4k The SEAS Thor loudspeaker is a DIY kit designed by Joe D'Appolito. What's always your very, VERY best value in a loudspeaker is a properly and professionally engineered design with top-of-the-line components. Typically these projects will sell f... | |
| I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system....... As @carlsbad2 said, your Altecs are ungodly efficient. You're probably never pulling more 10 watts and mostly never more than 3 or 4. Those speakers were designed in the days of tube amps and are quite happy with them. I think your best bet f... | |
| Real world Loudspeakers what does very good cost ? @soix @musicaddict The idea that you have to spend $15k to possibly get good sound is the kind of thing I expect people to say who buy their audio the same way they buy their luxury cars. They have a great deal of disposable income and can't pos... | |
| How to pack floor standing speakers for shipping @bigtwin Are you getting a set of the Roger West electrostatic loudspeakers? Nice job of getting the Tritons ready for shipment. The point of my post was to encourage people selling speakers like that, so that it really is possible to pack and s... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile I've been running the same loudspeakers since 2006. The thing which always struck me about the Linkwitz Orion DIY open baffle system is how true and real they are in the mid-range. They especially excel on voices and piano, and that's saying som... | |
| Dark Horse DAC Today's $2000 wonder will be next year's $1200 white elephant. | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? I once picked up a used Bryston .5B preamp for $300. Because it was 18 years old, it was still under warranty. So when it developed a problem in the phono section, I shipped it off to Bryston. Just a few weeks later, they fixed it at no char... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? Troll. Asking if anything under $100k can beat out some Wilson thingy. Troll | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state There's an enormous difference between various brands of tubes. I have no experience with the 6SN7. My preamp runs the 6CG7, which is the electrical equivalent. But there are big differences between various manufacturers. Try doing some tube r... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Umm... because most new music lacks things like melodic invention, harmonic movement, dynamic contrast... There are no dynamics when the sound level goes from too loud to too gddamn loud. When was the last time you heard a pop singer sing "I b... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align Here ya go. Bebop (Victor Feldman vibes, Scott LaFaro bass, Stan Levy drums 1958) I Thought About You (Wesla Whitfield vocal) La Vallee des Cloches (composed AND performed by Maurice Ravel 1922) This last recording is special because it was or... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? P.T. Barnum was right. | |
| "High end" store snobbery Hi-end audio is a rotten business and one most have failed at. They have to act like snobs because they are charging far more than the performance of their gear really warrants. This is normal in the industry. Beyond that, they can't take anyth... | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? @hilde45 Any competent tech can service these things. In particular, Bryston has the world's best support for their gear with a 20 year transferable warranty. Mind you, an 80's vintage Bryston will be out of warranty, but they'll be able to serv... |