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| Best integrated tube amplifier, under $3,000.00. No phono needed. Could be used, too.d I’ve owned the Rogue Cronus, Cary Sli-80, AES/Cary AE-25, Cayin A-50T and now the Raven Audio Blackhawk LE.The Raven is by far my favorite, a realistic, immersive sound that gets completely out of the way of the music. The service from the head of... | |
| Music Server or Laptop? A simple but very good solution, if you can find one, is the Arcam rPlay. It's been discontinued but available on ebay and other places. I have one plugged into my router that works extremely well taking streaming from an iTunes database on an iMa... | |
| Fear of Streaming I sense you've already figured this out but the pleasure of your LP ritual and the pleasure of having forgotten or entirely new music at your fingertips aren't mutually exclusive. Why not have and enjoy both? | |
| Eichmann binding post caps broke again/ Suggestions on something better No experience with Cardas but I've been impressed with the Vampire binding posts I've used in a couple of projects. They're right at your stated budget.https://www.partsconnexion.com/vampire-binding-posts.html | |
| $27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? Sometime in the ‘90s, I think, I went to an audio shop in Silverdale, WA, across Puget Sound from Seattle, to audition a pair of small Thiel speakers. Also set up in the room were a pair of Wilson Grand Slams. As I was listening the owner escorted... | |
| Hegel H390 Go to https://www.hifishark.com/ and search for "Hegel H390". Then click the "Site" column header to sort the Web sites by country where they are listed. There's one open-box listing in the U.S. | |
| Loudspeaker Recommendations: Standmount or Small Footprint Floorstanding under $2k I've been extremely happy with a pair of Nola Boxer S1 speakers in a system with a Raven Audio Blackhawk LE amp. It did for me exactly what you're describing, more fullness in the lower frequencies while maintaining a very open articulate sound in... | |
| Final Decision On First Tube - Help Please Oh, and, Raven offers a 45-day free in-home audition of their amps. That they continue to offer that would seem to mean very few of them ever come back. | |
| Final Decision On First Tube - Help Please I don't have experience with any of those amps but do own the Raven Audio Blackhawk LE. I've owned tube amps from Dynaco, AES/Cary, Rogue, Cayin, Cary and Raven. The Blackhawk LE is my favorite by a considerable margin. It sounds superb, the build... | |
| American Made Speaker Cables Bulk I made up several pair of cables using DH Labs Silver Sonic T-14 cable and was very happy with the results. It is made entirely in the U.S. and available in bulk from several vendors. The cable I bought had a black jacket but the images on their s... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Little Feat at the Paramount Theater, Austin TXVan Morrison at Armadillo World Headquarters, AustinLyle Lovett and Allison Krauss at the Paramount Theater, Seattle | |
| Customs fees Canada = > USA It's not surprising a FedEx agent doesn't know the rules, my experience is that even customs officers at the border don't know them very well. The regulations on imports and exports are both very complex and very difficult to understand even if yo... | |
| Customs fees Canada = > USA NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, allows goods manufactured in Canada, Mexico and the United States to be shipped from any of those three countries to the others without customs duties. The key, then, is where the cables were manufac... | |
| answer for beginners, pls The Audioengine B1 works well, I use one to connect to a system in my garage but a less expensive option from a phone is a Chromecast Audio. They're no longer made but are plentiful on ebay for @$50. https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/62... | |
| Goodbye iTunes for Mac In my experience the Apple Music service absolutely will destroy your music library. I joined and it immediately substituted it’s own lower resolution files for every one of the AIFF files I’d ripped from hundreds of my own CDs over many years, al... |