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| Can’t find my product in blue book value listing As per @bigtwin heres a link to the hifishark page for your amp. This will give you all amps like yours currently for sale globally. Also very valuable is near the top left you can switch from “for sale” to “sold/expired” and you can see where pas... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? Is "refinement" a way of saying "neutrality"? No, not really. Some SS preamps can sound neutral but but sound sterile and not very musical. More refined preamps still sound neutral but are more tonally balanced and sound more natural so nothi... | |
| Sharing a subwoofer between a Stereo and HT combination. First, disregard option 1 of adding a stereo amp — you don’t wanna leave the AVR’s preamp section in the stereo pathway so either an integrated or separates is the way to go. You should share what sound characteristics are most important to you an... | |
| Hegel comparison I think this review could pretty clearly answer your question… https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/equipment-reviews/1365-hegel-music-systems-h390-integrated-amplifier-dac I think this extract from the conclusion pretty much says it all… “... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? Really comes down to what sound characteristics you’re looking for, but if I was to boil it down to one word it’d be refinement. Specifically, a pre that is naturally detailed and not harsh or etched along with being well balanced and offering goo... | |
| A $250 Power Conditioner? @milpai Glad to hear, and way to keep an open mind, try new things, and have the confidence to trust your own ears! Now you get to reap all the wonderful and ongoing benefits of that. Hopefully the Flat Earthers will stay away from this. 🤞🤞🤞 | |
| 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... |