soix
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| Speaker Cables For $300 Acoustic Zen Satori fit the bill and can be had for a little over your price target if you’re patient — worth paying up for IMHO. Best of luck. | |
| Used tube preamp $2-3K dynamic with speed and detail and transparency I’d look for a used Linear Tube Audio MZ3 or a Backert Rhumba, and I doubt you’ll find what you’re looking for with CJ. Best of luck. | |
| Help me build out my first system Hey @Soix, in 2022 you had a post about the McCormick amp input board failing. Do you think this would affect the one he’s getting? @pureclarity Yes, the DNA-1 is subject to the input board failing due to age and it’s basically fatal when it ha... | |
| Speaker question The ProAcs excel at disappearing and portraying an expansive 3D soundstage with an expressive midrange, and they may be a little more forgiving of lesser recordings yet without lacking detail. The ATCs possess better dynamic power and will be a l... | |
| A nightmare regarding streaming? On My Lumin while using the App for Quboz, I have found it to be very easy to press delete playlist because it is right below where you press to play the list, I’m sorry, but that is just completely asinine. Then again, I’ve never read much po... | |
| Absorption behind components and speakers rationale? Try hanging a blanket or quilt in front of the door as a test and see what you get and go from there. It should help as obviously the glass door surely isn’t doing you any favors. | |
| Help me build out my first system As a musician with some recording and mixing experience it’s important to me to retain as much intentionality in any given production. Given that I can very highly recommend this Bryston BP-6 preamp. I used it for many years with excellent res... | |
| Help me build out my first system You’ve got pretty neutral components so far, so the rest really depends on your sonic preferences/goals. A biggie is if you prefer a tonally warmer, fuller, richer sound or a more neutral, detailed type of sound, and are you open to tubes and are ... | |
| Things I don‘t know So forget 99 44/100% of all rock recordings I always wondered why my Ivory soap was unaffected by phase inversion. Learn something new every day here! | |
| What speaker cable for Martin Logan motion series (AMT) tweeter. Given you haven’t found the right cable yet I’ll reiterate my earlier recommendation for the used AZ Satori shotgun cables for $850 that still seem to be available. If they don’t work out you can very likely sell them for no loss so very little r... | |
| Do No Harm ... well the least harm anyway This sounds like looking to create a problem where there is none. Your speakers go down to 26Hz and were designed to work that way — including the drivers that are custom made by Ref 3a — and you wanna cut them at 100Hz? And why in the world wou... | |
| Preamp suggestions for Atma-Sphere Class D Monoblocks I wish I knew how it compares to the MP-3. There is a lot to be said for system energy and surely @atmasphere Ralph would have designed the Class D so they work brilliantly as a pair. Yeah, synergy was a biggie why I recommended it along with i... | |
| Preamp suggestions for Atma-Sphere Class D Monoblocks Here’s a thread where Don Sachs and Lynn Olson, who designed the Raven preamp, go into detail about some of the development and technical design aspects of the preamp. Need to weed through it to find the various responses but interesting if you’r... | |
| Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp @audphile1 Got it, and thanks. Funny how impenetrable often coincides with unwilling/afraid to just use their own ears. 🙄 | |
| A budget turntable exploration Nice job resurrecting something for a very worthwhile and hopefully infectious cause! Let us know how the youngsters react to the “new” sound. Fortunately it sounds like you have a pretty low bar for comparison. Out of curiosity, how old are yo... |