soix
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| Amp upgrade, speaker cables or both Thanks for all the info — most helpful. Given what you said it points heavily to a tube preamp and SS amp. The tube pre will help give you the 3D holographic soundstage you’re looking for and the SS amp will give you the power you need for rock, p... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? So you went into Storage in Settings and clicked “Delete music in cache” at the bottom? I think that’s what Qobuz was talking about and sounds like that’s what you did. Again, best of luck in figuring this annoying thing out — you have my deepes... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? As per Qobuz I’d still go into their menu and empty whatever buffer they were talking about just to rule that out and possibly avoid future issues — couldn’t hurt and only takes a few minutes. The issues they mentioned from the buffer being near ... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? Follow up question — does the problem only occur when streaming Qobuz? | |
| Legacy Focus 20/20 Speakers AMP/Pre Amp I can attest to the Legacy's loving tubed amplification. Those 20/20 are 96 Db sensitive and can mate with tubed amps @ 20wpc easy. Apparently that’s not the case with the 20/20s as they drop below 2 Ohms in bass frequencies. I can’t imagine ... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Keep the computer outta your system at all costs. It’s a hot mess of noise and poor performance. | |
| Amp upgrade, speaker cables or both First, thanks for all the good and helpful info. It would also be most helpful if you could share what specific improvements you’re looking for and what sound characteristics are most important to you. This will lead to much better recommendation... | |
| Cable upgrades Hopefully, this will satisfy the interconnect upgrade itch for now. Then, I'll turn my attention to power cords, 'cuz heck, cable-swapping is so much fun! Heh heh. Necessary evil, right? Congrats on at least moving a bit in the right directi... | |
| Legacy Focus 20/20 Speakers AMP/Pre Amp Given what you’re looking for in sound with good power and something smaller I immediately thought hybrid integrated. This Unison Research Unico 150 offers lots of power with a tubed preamp section so you’re done in one box and would seem to offe... | |
| Need stand recommendation for Gershman studio IIs 20” stands seem kinda low as the tweeter will likely be below your ear level. These are not aggressive speakers in the highs so I’d think you’d want the tweets more on ear level that would likely require the more common 24” stands. I’d look for so... | |
| Legacy Focus 20/20 Speakers AMP/Pre Amp Thanks for the helpful info. Forgot to ask, what’s your budget? | |
| LTA microZOTL or Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3? @jc51373 You’re misinterpreting this. None of this is fact, and I’ve no idea which sounds or is designed better or even which I’d pick myself (I happen to love Backert products too), and at this level it could well come down solely to personal ta... | |
| upgrade player or use modified oppo bdp 105 as transport I’m not as patient as you are, and I’d dump the ProJect asap (the writing’s on the wall with that one) and just move on — life’s too short. You could pick up something like this Jay’s Audio CD2 Mk3 for only about $2k and probably get even better ... | |
| LTA microZOTL or Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3? @jc51373 Well, the power supply is certainly important but definitely not “everything” — the overall circuit design and output stage are also critical, and the LTA uses Berning’s patented circuit design and a relatively rare OTL output stage. So ... | |
| LTA microZOTL or Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3? Personally I think the Backert is the better design over the LTA, should have sprung for that. @jc51373 Curious why you would say that. Do you know the LTA is a David Berning ZOTL design? David Berning designs/builds some of the most incredi... |