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| Valve Amp for Sonus Faber Sonetto IIIs It’s doable, but if you’re going a pure tube amp it’ll cost some $$$ because you don’t wanna push an amp to near its power limits as you won’t get optimal performance. Good, higher-power tube amps cost $$$. You might get by with a Rogue Chronus Ma... | |
| Open Baffle Experience Let’s see here — on the dipole side we have Nola, Vandersteen, Spatial, Magnepan, Martin Logan, SoundLabs, etc, and on the other side we have…kenjit. Hmmm. I for one would love to see kenjit debate the great minds behind all these very successfu... | |
| The big Gensis are back, but what about Arion? I immediately bookmarked these when I first learned of them a couple weeks ago, and I don’t do that a lot. The three best systems I’ve ever heard involved Nola, Genesis, and Pipedream speakers, all of which were tall, line-array designs. If these... | |
| Comments on NODE 3 Power Supply Upgrade I’d add the Musician Pegasus DAC (I own it BTW) to your list as it’s priced closer to the Ares ll but performs more like the Pontus ll. Here’s a review fyi… https://soundnews.net/sources/dacs/musician-audio-pegasus-r2r-dac-review/ I’d also co... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender As I don’t have a very big house, at this point I’m thinking using an extender with a good Ethernet cable to my streamer might work fine and is cheaper/simpler than a Mesh setup. Thanks for sharing all the good thoughts/experience. | |
| Preamp for Parasound and B&W803d2 This LTA MZ3 is an excellent preamp and also an outstanding headphone amplifier if you ever plan on using good headphones. Also, you can change tubes to customize the sound to your liking. https://www.ebay.com/itm/234750039389 Here’s a review ... | |
| Book Shelf Speaker advice - Formerly Book Shelf Dilemma The new LSA Signature 50 may be right up your alley. There’s a link for member Terry’s glowing review in Stereo Times in the ad page below, and they can be had with stands for $800. Alternatively you could just buy the speakers for $600 and the ... | |
| Open Baffle Experience The best sound I’ve ever heard to date was the Nola Grand Reference open-back dynamic towers driven by top ARC electronics. You can say whatever you want about OB designs, but that sound will live with me forever, and if it’s wrong I don’t wanna b... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. I’d recommend the AZ Krakatoa PC, and this one seems like a great value that you can probably resell at little/no loss if it doesn’t work for you. Reason I recommend it is because I have a full loom of AZ cables and their level of detailed yet nat... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. Sooo, what improvements and sound characteristics are you looking for?. That’s critical information. | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. What sound characteristics/improvements are you looking for and what are you using now? | |
| subwoofer The SB1000 Pro will give more depth, slam, and impact than the 3000 Micro. The SB1000 Pro is still pretty small, so unless size is a deal breaker I’d go that route. And even better, you can get 2 SB1000 Pros for only $250 more than one 3000 Micro,... | |
| Denafrips Ares II Buffering and Reclocking I have a Musician Pegasus that is pretty close in design to the Denafrips Pontus ll so my experience may be relevant to your situation. I recently added a Denafrips Iris DDC mainly because I wanted the ability to take advantage of my DAC’s i2S inp... | |
| Preamp for Parasound and B&W803d2 Budget? | |
| B&W CDM 1NT That doesn’t preclude going out and listening to other speakers. The CDM 1NT came out like 30 years ago and a lot of improvements have been made since then, so especially if you haven’t gone to audition speakers in a while it would likely prove t... |