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| Amps for Focal Maestros Sweet! Congrats on the awesome new amps and thanks for the follow up. It’s always so gratifying when you finally find The One that does everything right. Enjoy! | |
| David Berning live My Quadrature Z monoblocks have a base that Steve designed. It’s made of copper and provides a multi-layer damping and ground system. @clio09 Yup, my DNA 0.5 has Steve’s Gravity Base he adapted from development work he did for Berning. Due to ... | |
| Flat Screen Television behind speakers +1 light blanket or even try a sheet. Too much absorption could suck the life out of the music. Not sure why you have the speakers close to the wall as that’s not doing you any favors either — your speakers need some room to breathe. | |
| Cables +1 @audphile1 I prefer the AZ Shotgun bi-wire cables to a single run and well within your budget. | |
| Bi-Wire Cables under $350 (Used or New) At that price level you might be better off getting a single run of better quality cable and good jumpers. | |
| Coax to I2S I recently added a used Denafrips Iris to enable me to use my Musician Pegasus i2S input and the improvement was huge. Even using these cheap Monoprice 0.5m cables provided a great improvement. BTW, the shorter the HDMI cable for i2S the better. ... | |
| David Berning live I recently ordered an LTA MZ2 to be both a preamp and headphone amp and looking forward to hearing the benefits of the ZOTL design. I also recently had my McCormack DNA 0.5 RevA amp get full upgrades through SMcAudio and was interested to learn t... | |
| Amplifier Recommendation for Spendor D9.2 Speakers What improvements are you looking for and what sound characteristics are most important to you? | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll With the newer GaN and Purify amps and with future improvements surely coming down the road I’d have to think long and hard about buying a traditional SS Class A amp. But at least some Class A amps from Plinius and Clayton have a hi/low bias swit... | |
| Combination streamer and music server…without DAC All my posts have been removed, so I guess the best advice as per this site is to just buy whatever audiotroy recommends. Totally corrupted IMHO, and this post will no doubt be removed as well. Just buy what audiotroy recommends because it’s obvio... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? New custom streamer goes in, great attention to noise and latency issues. Revelatory is only word I can apply to what I'm hearing, much greater sense of ease, I simply relax into music, its like the music has slowed down and come into its own nat... | |
| Node 2i vs Cambridge 851N question I am running the Cambridge with no external DAC. I have not tried the Orchid with the Cambridge because, honestly, it sounds fabulous as is. This is an apples/oranges comparison. You need to try the Cambridge with the Orchid with the same digi... | |
| Combination streamer and music server…without DAC I’d highly recommend a used Innuos Zenith Mk3 or Zen Mk3 (new or used) streamer/servers that have their own onboard disk drive along with internal storage — everything in one box. Good user interface, excellent sound quality, and great customer su... | |
| Adding Subs to a 2 channel system. Wiring advise If the subs you get don’t have built-in integration software I agree with @kota1 that the 8033 is a very good option as is its bigger brother the Anti-Mode 2. Will save you a ton of work/headaches and probably sound better in the end. | |
| The Right Speaker Cables Buy these Acoustic Zen Satori cables. They’ll give you everything you’re looking for in spades (pun intended). They’ve been in my system for years and ain’t going anywhere soon. Lots of natural detail/air, large soundstage with 3D imaging, and ... |