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| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. My vinyl collection is at least 90% pre 1990's purchases or gifted. While some of the newer vinyl has great sound, some is digital original mastering or remastering, pure analog masters, no digital ever sounds best to me. Vinyl prices would certai... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? I wonder how much Black Flag and other hardcore Henry listens to these days? | |
| Solution for By-Passing Xfinity Fiber-Optic Modem/Router I don't get it, you have fiber optic internet and want to convert to ethernet? Ethernet not 100% galvanic isolation, so you're going to noisier setup. Certainly, there are varying performance levels of optical, but if I started with optical I'd be... | |
| Tweak or Replace? The Costs and Benefits of DIY Speaker Mods Well I'm totally biased in favor of modding. I have extremely modded Klipschorns, only bass cabinet remains stock. These have all the special attributes of stock Klipschorns and unique diy modifications to conform to my needs and desires. If one t... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? Musicians are makers, active participants in this endeavor, we are passive participants, totally different objectives. I'd also assume with so much time spent creating and performing, spare time is used for other activities. | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. Over the years I've gone back and forth with upgrades to analog and digital in my system. For me planned upgrades to either side need to outperform the present superior side. I'm presently at point where it will take $10-20K to bring analog up to... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @emailists + Yes, it may be a relatively smaller expenditure that improves sound to a much greater extent than that expenditure's incremental or percentage of total system cost. And yes, this much greater than expected performance requires a total... | |
| Objective Opinion? I think I've found it! My male cat has never had any interest in listening session, sleeps well away from stereo, the female loves to listen. Goes to show some women love high end audio. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I've contemplated selling two of my leisure only cars in this market and use the funds for audio upgrades. Originally the plan was to purchase dac in price range of $10-20K, no longer interested in using those funds on digital side of system, 005 ... | |
| Is there any one piece of vintage gear you most wished you owned? I do have two vintage items purchased from my wish list, NOS Revox A77 half track and 80's era Klipschorns. | |
| USBe Perfect A streamer/server that has high quality usb renderer should not benefit from daisy chaining usb decrapifier devices. Problem is too many don't, my take is for the money many spend on servers/streamers quality usb renderers should be built in. Simp... | |
| HFTs? I use them, but required judicious placement with my room and system. | |
| Is rectifier tube arcing a problem? I'm surprised Audio Note would market these amps with what seems to be a design flaw. Are others experiencing same issue, and if not, I'd think it could be improper assembly. | |
| About your music collection Wow, this thread resurrected from the dead. I'd stand behind most of what I said then, although I stream nowadays so music collection is exponentially bigger. I don't think I was saying one has to be an audiophile to be a music lover, I said I was... | |
| any thoughts? I can't see purchasing older and/or well used cd transport. Even if one believed it may provide higher quality sound than today's transports I wouldn't do it. CD transports should be considered as consumable product, defined lifespan. I had a sing... |