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| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? Conrad Johnson PFRStax Lambda headphonesI had already given up on tubes for amplifiers. The PFR made me open my eyes for solid state in the preamplifier stage. All for the outrageous sum of $850 (used) on ebay. Incredible bargain IMO. | |
| Sadly missed manufacturers NesterovicHovland (incredible aesthetics)Hales | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? focker you make too much sense for this forum. | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable I received a quote from Cable Solutions for a 25' foot pair of Canare 4s11 quad cable. Terminated with what looks to be pretty decent spade connectors: $188 (+/-). For that amount of money is there any reason NOT to gamble?. | |
| Best portable headphones and DAC Inna, I did upgrade my dragonfly from red to cobalt. I purchased an open box IEM (Fiios FH7) as I gave up the search for a portable headphone which would be an upgrade to my cheap Sennheiser (PX100?) phones that I,ve been using the last 10 years.... | |
| Spectral or Ayre (combo) miglos I'm reading these responses and shaking my head in disbelief. You need to hear these components first before making a purchase but I'm trying to think of one parameter where the Ayre combo. bested the Spectral combo. and quite frankly, can... | |
| Spectral or Ayre (combo) ebm: my current system has both Ayre and Pass components and I couldn't say one mfr. is / was more reliable than the other.Miglos: you have the model designations inverted but I have the V-5xe and K-5xemp combo and am actually looking to make a ... | |
| D’Agostino Progression integrated vs Gryphon Diablo 300 RDK777: There is however a new D'Agostino integrated (Baby Progression?) for $18K. that would be a much fairer comparison with the Diablo 300. | |
| Best and Worst customer service? Exemplary:Conrad johnsonPassAyreMiddle of the Road (neither good nor bad):CaryWorstNone so far (hopefully I'll never get there!) | |
| Best portable headphones and DAC Celtic66 (Boston Celtics fan I wonder): re IEM's: too many trips to the emergency room to remove the ear tips (unfortunately, I'm serious) that were lodged in my ear canal. My wife was not amused. I found that to get the best sound the ear tip... | |
| What are the Best FM tuners? The thread should be changed to "what are the best VINTAGE tuners". Can't imagine having a list like this and not including Fanfare. I don,t have personal experience with the Magnum Dynalab so I can,t comment. | |
| Ethernet source Well, I just tried using a wifi repeater and noticed no improvement (or degradation) of sound quality. Next step is a phone call to Verizon. It probably wouldn't hurt to switch out the modem As it's almost 9 years old. At the same time I,m goin... | |
| Ethernet source Mike, I,m using the DAC on my Mbl CD player. My modem is about 30' away from my stereo, pretty far, IMO.. There could another option and that is I noticed an Ethernet port on the Verizon controller in my garage. I would have to have it activate... | |
| Tidal vs Quobuz dadork: disagree with your assessment re. Qobuz. Not only do I constantly find that albums are missing sometimes I can't find anything from a particular artist. To be fair, I experienced a similar problem with Tidal although less so. | |
| For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone.... Nestorovic labs. |