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| 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... | |
| Magico A5 vs SF Amati vs Raidho D3 - Help me decide! If you love the sound of your speakers I have to agree with @deep_333 that adding a couple good subs could be the better, easiest, and most cost-effective way to go. It’s absolutely amazing what a couple good and properly dialed-in subs can do for... | |
| Aurender AP20 Impressions I’m sure this is a great sounding piece and apparently Aurender has done the market research to determine that this is a viable niche, but I’m definitely not their target market. Unless I’m extremely space constrained or just have an overwhelming... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? @immatthewj Great. When was the last time you encountered a legit potential tweak for 30 bucks? I (and maybe others here) would be interested in your impressions. Again, my experience was tighter bass and more defined imaging within the soundst... | |
| Bottleneck / Upgrade Recommendations - Yamaha RVX-475 Receiver, Pro-Ject Phono Box MM @mesch If the OP can connect his AVR to an integrated’s HT bypass I think he could just run the optical cable from the TV to the AVR and not worry about having an optical connection on a DAC although he wouldn’t be able to just ditch the AVR enti... | |
| McCormack ALD-1 repair +1 @gdaddy1 SMcAudio will be straight with you. If you like the sound of your pre and send it in to be repaired you might inquire about their mods as they’re known to make big improvements. Just something to consider. | |
| Hegel H120 a good pairing with Heritage Cornwalls? So far BASS on my Cornwalls is dominant and boomy. I have treated the room and will try again How many hours do you have on the amp? Might need some more hours to settle in and I wouldn’t make any firm conclusions until 200 hours or so. Even ... | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range Verity Audio has ceased operations, that’s why the pair is priced as it is @metaldetektor I can’t find any info on this on their website or anywhere else. Where did you see it? |