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| Need advice/opinion in choosing Vandy 2ci or Thiel 1.5 @audiomax Given your comments about your son's string experience, part of his ultimate satisfaction will come down to the vinyl rig choices. Your call on if you want to derail your own thread or start a another, but cartridge choice that has clear... | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) @lbarbish my post at the bottom of page one of this thread (last paragraph & the 2 youtube links) answers your question. If you watch and have followups, happy to help in your new thread. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 tube rolling I had good luck with Ken-Rad VT231's in my MA1s. Cheers,Spencer | |
| krell XD vs krell fpb, levinson 334, 434 series Listening to my FPB300 and gettin' out the popcorn. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Need advice/opinion in choosing Vandy 2ci or Thiel 1.5 Having owned both 2Ci's and Thiel 3.6, I also thing the Vandys would probably be a safer choice for this case. Easier to drive with tubes, a more forgiving tonal balance allowing for compatibility with lower cost amps and the fact that the company... | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics Like any topic, it all depends on how much you want to dumb it down on the spectrum from peer-reviewed white papers at one end and Twitter posts on the other.With so many variables at play I don't think a simple warm-cool linear scale is enough to... | |
| Audirvana Studio is hung up on "Loading First Track" Amarra and JRiver are two of the better alternatives if you're determined to run from your iMac. If not, IME you'll get far more musical joy and far less UX frustration moving from Mac/Audirvana to a Linux Core(Roon Nucleus, Intel NUC or in my cas... | |
| Considering ditching 5.1 for a soundbar; suggestions? @hilde45, I recently faced a similar situation and share much of your perspective. IME, the sound quality from all the sound bars I heard demoed greatly underwhelmed. I was surprised that they’ve grown so in popularity given the huge red flag soun... | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… @redwoodaudio & others, one thing you could try that might be therapeutic is entering your music media into a collection on discogs.com.I've just completed this project which kept me busy for a few months, doing a bit most evenings. While ini... | |
| Jax2 (Marco P.) Marco was a friend I never met; His adventurous spirit always came through in his posts. Here's to fast rides and fast tunes for Marco. Cheers, buddy, we'll miss you!Spencer | |
| Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio Until recently I bought ~ 10 used originals / 1 new release or reissue. Lately, the Tone Poets, Blue Note Classic Series and other ALL analog reissues have me leaning in. IMHO, the success of these series and similar are the greatest trend in the ... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat You want to replace the original mat with something that's same or very close in thickness. Otherwise, you're changing VTA, which may be more audible than the mat material's impact. On a high quality table, you should hear differences in all of th... | |
| Out of Their Wheelhouse Genius @three_easy_payments, great points! But, I still think it's a fun exercise to call out some of those first dips of the toe into freezing water. @bdp24 Yeah man, Dylan going electric is a wonderful example that had tremendous impact. Cheers,Spencer | |
| System building; a meditation @whart You've got a knack for prompting thinking and shared knowledge. That's a gift, buddy! Cheers,Spencer | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) "I am already running a NUC for the NetFlix streamer, and another for Linux so I am familiar with them. (& thanks for the links - I’ll give them a whirl) I guess I come out of the NUC on one of the HMDI ports? And into the HT-AVR/Pre?"Cool. Jo... |