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| My Sonus Faber Amatis have weak bass even though I'm running ML 536s--800 w/ch into 4 ohms Are these speakers new? How many hours do you have on them? Sounds like they’re not broken in yet or as others mentioned maybe wired out of phase. Did you get these new from a dealer? | |
| ??? Anyone Running Active Speakers Driven By A Tube PreAmp ??? No. I don’t know what speakers you’re using or how they’re configured. All I’m saying is that I might choose to run a line level signal from a tube preamp to active speakers if that’s possible. If you need a digital signal going into your speak... | |
| What are people using to upgrade from Channel D Pure Music to play from iTunes Buy used. Here’s an Innuos Zenith you can get for less than the price of a new Zen, but others are available too you can find on hifishark. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650182374-innuos-zenith-mk3-2tb-storage/ | |
| Streamer vs Directstream Memory Player There are many aspects to building an excellent streaming setup, and if yours is that bad relative to stored CDs I’d submit somewhere in your streaming chain there are glaring deficiencies. Not knowing any of the components in your streaming chai... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Well.... here we are. It happened. We now have a tariff war and I happen to know a number of parts in the Raven come from Canada. Others are European so let’s hope the USA doesn’t get into a tariff war with Poland or Belgium. There are some Ameri... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative”…..Part 1: I have a plan Given your speakers and that you’re looking for better bass control I’d be cautious choosing a pure tube integrated and is why I recommended Unison Unico and Pathos hybrid integrateds in your prior thread. I believe Unison will be in the Top Shelf... | |
| ??? Anyone Running Active Speakers Driven By A Tube PreAmp ??? Go with whatever provides the sound characteristics you’re looking for. If that’s tubes fine and if it’s solid state fine, but especially with a tube pre you should obviously pay attention to ensuring the output/input impedance characteristics ar... | |
| System advice It’s good that you really appear to know what you like. If your Arcam stuff is that old I’d upgrade the pre/amp first and get that right because it may affect which direction you might wanna go with a DAC, and there will be other used Lampi DACs a... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from Merlin TSMs? Great speakers. I believe Bobby used Dynaudio drivers and think they’ve upgraded those drivers at least a couple times since then so time marches on. If I was looking to make a meaningful upgrade from those I’d go with a used pair of original Jose... | |
| What are people using to upgrade from Channel D Pure Music to play from iTunes What’s your budget? This Innuos Zen is an excellent streamer at a very good price, and you can also load all your CDs into it if you want so all your music would be available from one source. Innuos’ app is also best in the biz and very user fri... | |
| System advice How does the system sound since you put the Arcam gear back in? What DAC are you using now? What specific improvements are you looking for over what you’re hearing now? All important info to make any recommendations. That said and without know... | |
| What are people using to upgrade from Channel D Pure Music to play from iTunes I have to go through my Mac to stream to my DAC, maybe that kills my quality. That’s why I recommended getting a dedicated streamer so you can get your Mac out of the picture. | |
| What are people using to upgrade from Channel D Pure Music to play from iTunes Streaming from your Mac is a bottleneck. Get a good dedicated streamer, ditch iTunes, and get Qobuz or Tidal depending on which music catalog better matches with your tastes in music. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @clustrocasual No offense, but none of this makes any sense to me whatsoever. Define what the “natural energy” is in a recording to me because it means nothing and is completely nebulous. Also, what are “fake dynamics” and who are you to determ... | |
| What's the story with Borresen speakers ? By all accounts they make some great speakers, but I hope they don’t fall into incremental/habitual upgraditis (a la Denafrips and Hifiman as two examples) as it tends to piss existing customers off and causes potential new buyers to just buy used... |