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| Chinese DAC's Not just Chinese audio, recently discovered new streaming produced in Latvia, modified by US entity. Seriously considering purchasing at $3k price, sudden price increase last few day to $3500, aprox. 16.5% jump. No way I'm paying an extra $500 fo... | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? I've long been curious about amps and wanted to try a variety of topologies. Solid state, both class a/b and class a, one of the class a powered via four wheelchair batteries. Push pull tubes with many varieties of power tubes, SET's using 845, 30... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? @hilde45 Good points. As for the professional reviewer vs amateur/owner reviews. I presume at a certain level per this particular reviewer, he has access to virtually all audio components at all price levels. So, I'd suggest this kind of reviewer ... | |
| Shakti Stone Yep, transformers, hard drives emanate much EMI/RFI. Good one is to try on power conditioners. | |
| 2 Channel system sounds weak and lackluster @boxboy83 I'm surprised no one has mentioned AC, quality of AC can vary widely, the fact you liked system in another room points to this. Also none of what you're complaining about point to the room being the culprit, that room is live, full of r... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? @hilde45 He's speaking to the well heeled audiophile and non audiophile, also to those who aspire to have the very best. I don't understand why some bash these types of components out of hand, at least some of these sky high priced components are... | |
| Shakti Stone I have both the old version and newer 'air' model, tried them on virtually every component. In general they have this tendency to provide the blacker background thing, problem is they tend to darken the sound unnaturally, some of the life sucked o... | |
| Mono recordings and my new respect for them This another benefit of a highly resolving system. Yes, mono recordings can have very lifelike sound staging/imaging, sometimes preferable to the stereo version, especially those with left/right pans with little center fill. | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? Humans have so much emotional attachment to so many relatively inconsequential things, save the passion for more important things. Lately I've been thinking the entire human race becoming like puppets on strings, strings being pulled such that we'... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? The technical issues with digital brought up in video are well known, I've read any number of white papers written by well regarded dac designers stating these same issues. The amount of diminishing returns with any audio component dependent o... | |
| Would a tube amp generally do better on power conditioner than a SS amp? No PC or regenerator for me with any amps, tried both through auditioning process at CableCo, this with push pull tube and 845 SET amps. Continue to run my present 300B monoblocks on this same dedicated amp line, this same phase on breaker box as ... | |
| Gain level on a REL sub @helomech +1 This plus type of wire used makes a qualitative difference. I'm using 6' L of Duelund tin plated copper litz wire at present, have some VHAudio Airlock OCC solid core copper to try next, always use the authentic Neutrik connectors at ... | |
| Why Does Expensive Gear Seems To Sound Better? Seems we could make the exact same psychological assumptions for those who claim there is no value in higher priced components and/or measurements tell the whole story. Oh, but then these people are beyond human foibles such as subjectivity, or at... | |
| Tube vibration control My experience is they all 'damped' down the sound to some degree, less freq. extension, micro dynamics impacted, all took the 'life' out of music to some degree.. Purchase quality tubes, no microphonics, take care of vibrations elsewhere such as q... | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? I agree there is a difference between those who worked hard and those who inherited their good fortune. The issue is opportunity, do we really believe there is level playing field here? As for 'fronting' we can't get past the skin we're born i... |