soix
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| So many good choices and here is my upgrade plan Yeah, streaming with a good streamer and DAC will literally change your life, and as the rest of your system is solid that’s definitely what I’d do. Best of luck. | |
| What next? BTW, what is your budget and would you want new or used? | |
| Help me pick some new or used speaker cables What are your current cables so that we have a point of reference. +1 @audphile1 Also, what interconnects are you using and what preamp and source are you using? | |
| What next? Agree your next move should be a streamer and DAC. Not sure what your budget is, but you could get a highly-regarded iFi Zen Stream and Musician Draco DAC for about $1000 and be at an entirely higher performance level. I started streaming with m... | |
| Speakers for weird sized room..... So, I went back and read Kal Rubinson’s Stereophile review of your speakers and his impressions as well as John Atkinson’s measurements are both inline with what you’re hearing — that being a lack of energy/warmth from the upper bass and lower mid... | |
| Speakers for weird sized room..... Where do you have the speakers positioned currently, and what don’t you like? | |
| Speakers for weird sized room..... Your speakers are well regarded. What specific improvements would you be looking for? That’d be the key info here for making good recommendations here. | |
| Building your music digital music collection Yeah, I too question your premise that ripped music will sound better than uncompressed music from the likes of Qobuz and Tidal. And as @ghdprentice mentioned, and especially with Qobuz, you can get tons of music in hi res in addition to full 16/... | |
| Value of a preamp? It can greatly improve the overall performance of a system. | |
| Transport Recommendations Cyrus has a hideous reliability track record. Just a warning. | |
| Add a digital coax in /out tube pre-amp Why? What’s the point? Why would you even do that? Just get a DAC and feed it into the analog inputs in your preamp. I don’t get this at all. | |
| A great minimalist integrated? I’d add the Linear Tube Audio Z40+ to your list… https://www.lineartubeaudio.com/products/z40-integrated-amplifier | |
| Best cable placement It would seem if the better cable was upstream, and the lesser cable downstream, it would seem the lesser cable would negate the better one. That was not my experience. I found that if I put the lesser cable upstream it choked off the better ... | |
| Octave HP 300SE Preamp into ATC Active speakers Assuming the Octave is more on the neutral side of the tube pre spectrum, I’d recommend looking at the Atmasphere MP3 Mk3, the Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL, and the Backert Rhumba Extreme that exhibit similar sound characteristics and all have bala... | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range The Perspectives are also a great choice, but also not a very sensitive speaker. @moto_man While it’s true the Perspectives are not high in sensitivity, if you read John Atkinson’s measurements they don’t drop below 6 Ohms and have very benign... |