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| Flexible Power Cords What is your budget range per cable? | |
| DAC suggestions for a reasonably modest system This would be great and save you some $$$… https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650070389-musician-pegasus-r2r-dac-black/ Here’s a good review that I agree with, and yes I own it. Add a DDC like the Musician Pisces or Denafrips Iris and use the i... | |
| ROCKPORT TECHNOLOGIES: ATRIA 2 ROOM SIZE ? I’d get Joseph Audio Perspective 2. That’s just me. | |
| Would u give up usher mini dancer 2 for b&w 802's @speedthrills Good riddance. You’ve added nothing of value here anyway, so go to ASR or Reddit where you’ll probably be much better accepted and received. | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be As music is lesser in my world, I'm not sure whether replacing the Marantz or running another stereo preamp side by side in my system makes sense. Yeah, I totally get that and was just throwing it out there. Here’s what I’d try if I was you be... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be If I was in your shoes, and since you’ve already got an LPS for the Node, if you wanna get to WOW I’d strongly consider adding a dedicated stereo preamp (preferably with a HT bypass feature). You’ve got a good AVP, but it’s likely a mediocre ster... | |
| Bryston BP-17 cubed or Benchmrk LA4 Preamp At that price level I’d take a hard look at the Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL preamp that uses tubes but they last forever in this design so very low cost/maintenance. And you can swap tubes to get exactly what you want and they offer a home trial ... | |
| The D'Appolito, MTM Configuration I really liked the Joseph Audio RM25s, but JA doesn’t seem to use the D'Appolito design anymore. | |
| How does bi-wiring work? @wlutke Very glad to hear! And thanks for the follow up. Cables can be a risky thing to recommend because they can be so system dependent, so I’m happy it worked out in your situation. | |
| Acoustic Zen - Hologram ii vs Satori +1 @audphile1 Try AZ Silver Ref between source and pre. | |
| Need suggestions on a streaming solution! Budget? Are you looking for new or used? | |
| Old phones as streaming sources though I would never recommend an Aurender or its ilk as I think they are dramatically overpriced for what you get @mdalton Yeah, that’s just absurd IMHO. You also didn’t spend a bunch on a streamer, opting for the zen, which seems smart to m... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @mdalton By that logic you can feed a $10k DAC with an iPhone and be no better off if you use a good Aurender, Grimm, Innuos, etc. streamer. Is that your contention? I don’t think there are many people here with good DACs who would use an iPhone... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @lanx0003 What you fail to recognize is that noise is the mortal enemy of good streaming, and an iPhone is about the noisiest source possible for streaming. Streamers go to great lengths to minimize noise while the iPhone does nothing in that re... | |
| Need Guidance for Next/Last Pair of Speakers What’s your budget, and are you looking for new or used? Also, what specifically was it about the Altecs that so attracted you? Sounds like maybe they were full of tone and not hyper detailed up top? |