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| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? Hey guys, is there any way on this forum to put one clueless barking bozo (who follows me around on threads like a rabid creature) in a permanent ignore blackhole? Yeah. Stop posting clueless and silly crap like what you’ve been posting here. T... | |
| DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today? DACs have come really far and really fast of late. While you may be able to find a jewel from yesteryear from the likes of Wadia, etc., why, when there are so many excellent options out there today at relatively very reasonable prices with USB in... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing Lots of good info and nice system, but what’s your budget and are you looking for new or used? | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? On the same note, don't be fooled by the misinformation and the fact that some of these insanely featured high quality prepros are still offered at "relatively affordable" prices (compared to purist gear). They are heavily subsidized for you by ... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? You seem that to think that as you keep spending on the powersupply, caps, parts quality or whatever (facepalm) till you hit a 100k, sonic nirvana will continue to flow expansively like the Niagara beyond any limits of perceptibility. @deep_3... | |
| Integrated Amplifier for Raidho XT-2 Your speakers are rated at 87dB and 4 Ohms, and it’s probably a good bet they drop below 4 Ohms somewhere in the upper bass/lower mids. I’d be concerned running them with a 90Wpc tube integrated, but maybe you can get some feedback from some other... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? He also didn’t read the part where i mentioned that the dude’s upgrade path should go to a Yamaha flagship prepro (since he has a hybrid stereo/multichannel setup), which holds its own against any preamp out there. @deep_333 So, a $2700 pre pro... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation to upgrade Tribuataries in Wall UL rated cable To be honest and given your equipment I’m surprised you think it sounds a little thin, but I’m not familiar with your interconnects or speaker cable. Given what you’re looking for I’d highly recommend these Acoustic Zen Absolute cables (I’m assumi... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? that receiver is a full featured/polished up streamer+good DAC implementation+great preamp sections and.... poweramp sections which are a bit weak (as is typical of multichannel receivers) @deep_333 So, a $1700 AVR has a great preamp section???... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation to upgrade Tribuataries in Wall UL rated cable So, just to be clear, you’re now open to not using in-wall cables? What length and termination do you need, are you looking for single or bi-wire, and do you prefer new or used? Also, what interconnects and other equipment are in your system? | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? First, thanks for all the good info — most helpful and appreciated as most people asking for advice here don’t provide nearly enough to go on (dig ur handle here BTW)! Agree with treating the room no matter what else you decide to do. IMHO you hav... | |
| Is it worth it? DAC question You’re likely to get a meaningful upgrade with the iFi, but you’ll likely need a decent SPDIF digital cable to run from the Node to the DAC to be able to realize the advantages. If you can spring for something like this Acoustic Zen MC2 cable I th... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! But all the hype I hear about better streamers addressing issues with jitter and timing which can affect sound quality, all this hype I believe is BS. @daleberlin Well you’re free to “believe” whatever you want. But when you have the vast majo... | |
| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? If you like the sound of your excellent monitors I’d seriously consider adding a couple good subs to fill in the bottom octaves. You’ll get down to an honest 20Hz or below, which most floorstanders can’t, and the subs will let you better integrat... | |
| Distributed Bass Array Speaker Placement I’d ask @audiokinesis in on this as he’s pretty much the authority on a DBA array. |