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| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds @erik_squires Was your response AI-generated too? Ehem. I think in general if you’re relying on ChatGPT to make your arguments here your credibility sinks like a stone and likely for good reason. Might go over well on Reddit tho. | |
| Network Streamer using Wifi connected to a MHDT Orchid I am tired of all the commercials with Pandora, YouTube, and Spotify and am looking to subscribing with Qobuz. And, making that final step of getting away from streaming from a laptop. Goodonya!!! You’ll get significantly better performance wit... | |
| Which Would You Choose? What specific improvements are you looking for over the JC5? Also, I’d consider upgrading the Monster 3600 that can’t be doing you any favors sonically. | |
| Infigo AES/EBU Digital Cable Nice review and very interesting — wanting to read more and see the price I went to the Infigo website and don’t see a digital cable except for the USB cable. What am I missing? | |
| Can you provide context on First Watt? As long as you are in Colorado, and possibly in the Denver area, check out YG acoustic speakers. YG makes great speakers, but they’re not suitable for First Watt amps given their sensitivity and impedance specs just fyi, but by all means go lis... | |
| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds Well, I asked very specific questions before about what sound characteristics you’re looking for but you didn’t answer and just seem stuck on amplifier topology, so I’m out. I don’t think PBN has ever designed a full Class A amp although I review... | |
| New pre-amplifier? Yet another absolutely useless post from emergingsoul. Enjoy! | |
| New DAC with streamer I’ve never read a negative word about Bricasti DACs or using them as streamers so hard to see going wrong at all. That said, and especially at this price level it really comes down to personal tastes, preferences, and system synergy so the real q... | |
| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds Kinda seems like this jumped right into the weeds about amp design without getting some critical bigger-picture info. You’ve got a long list of equipment on your system page so what are you using now, what improvements would you like to achieve (... | |
| 10 k speaker setup. 5.1 Nice! I’m sure they’ll be thrilled, and thanks for the follow up. Wait, just saw they got one X10 sub? What??? That’s not near inline with the level of the rest of the speakers and only goes down to 29Hz — the 120H goes down to about 20Hz for good... | |
| Simple device for downsampling? In Qobuz you can go into settings and select various maximum resolution levels. Not sure how that’d work with their hi res music but it’s worth a try if you haven’t already. Best of luck. | |
| As An Experiment I Stuck A Few Things Under My Pre-Amp And Am Now On A Quest Townshend Seismic spring-based products get universal praise in reviews and from users, but their stuff don’t come cheap. Other people here looking for a much cheaper spring-based isolation device have used these and have been very happy with the ... | |
| I need a phono pre amp for my ARC VSi75 Herron’s VTPH phono preamps are very highly regarded and should be available in your price range used. Just another option to consider. | |
| AES/EBU balanced XLR digital transmission vs. coax and I2S I think it depends on which inputs the DAC manufacturer puts the most effort into, but I found running i2S from my Iris to my DAC to be notably superior to SPDIF. From what I’ve read AES/EBU sounds to be close to i2S in performance, but I haven’t ... | |
| Best pairing subwoofer with B & W 805D4 Well, at that budget I’d look at JL Labs and REL (different approaches), and Rhythmik subs offer very high-value performance as they sell direct. Neither the REL nor Rhythmic subs include any integration software if that’s an issue. Obviously B&... |