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| Power conditioner vs use of a audio grade outlet? Screw Pangea. Here’s a really nice Maestro outlet that has faced many challengers. For $89 IMHO it’s a no brainer… https://www.cruzefirstaudio.com/maestro/the-maestro-outlet | |
| Im looking for the next upgrade. I'm not real sure which way I want to go Help! I don’t think using the streamer as a preamp is doing you any favors at all, and I’d look to try a good tube preamp that I bet will yield improvements across the board. What’s your budget? I’d highly recommend looking at this Don Sachs pre that wi... | |
| CD Player - Dgital Out on Onkyo C-7030 Sounds like you only occasionally listen to CDs? If that’s the case you might try a Wyred4Sound Remedy Reclocker on sale for $319 to see if that provides a better result on the relative cheap and without having to buy a new transport. https://wyr... | |
| Audiolab 6000CDT @charliecheese What benefits does the Wyred Reclocker provide over the 6000 CDT alone? | |
| Im looking for the next upgrade. I'm not real sure which way I want to go Help! What sound characteristics are most important to you, and what improvements are you looking for over what you have now? | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? @navyachts Just as he did with the Sueezebox, he left out the qualifier “for the money,” but he did say it’s not on the level of better/pricier streamers. Just highlighting a few words from his review without context is misleading. | |
| Question about a set up Going through your options my recommendations would only cost $200 more than your Best Buy options and result in a much better system IMHO. Plus, when everything I recommended can be delivered to your door for little/no cost there’s no reason y... | |
| DAC Questions My God, DACs are a rabbit hole! I was feeling confident about the Lampi, but now there are just so many choices. Geez! I guess part of the challenge is that as a relative newby to digital there is a lot that I don't know. I got a lot to learn. ... | |
| Looking for preamp recommendation The key question is what sound characteristics are most important to you. Forget about being drawn into looks unless McIntosh preamps give you the sonic qualities you’re looking for. Are you looking for more tube warmth and fullness or more neut... | |
| A cunundrum of sorts... any ideas? I think @carlsbad missed the point here. Clearly the vintage preamp you’d like to use will not have an HT bypass feature, so what you’ll need to do is set a reference volume point on your preamp when you set the 5.1 volume settings so you can jus... | |
| A cunundrum of sorts... any ideas? For $2900 you can get this AVR and center/surround speakers. Add another pair of interconnects and speaker cables for the speakers and you’re all set. Run interconnects from front L/R pre outs of the AVR to an unused input on your stereo preamp, a... | |
| Gustard R26 on sale You can buy it through Amazon for $1403 and it’s returnable through 1/31/23 if there’s any issue. https://smile.amazon.com/Gustard-R26-Discrete-Decoder-Balanced/dp/B0B4P2NPKK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1OQLWIM6FGTKR&keywords=gustard%2Br26&qid=1669... | |
| CD Player - Dgital Out on Onkyo C-7030 Digital is not like Analog, where paying more for better mechanical build quality gets you better sound. Bits are just bits, whether they come from an older CD player, DVD player or a new $1K transport. This is just patently absurd but sadly j... | |
| Subwoofer suggestions for budget system? @grislybutter Have you tried switching the phase on the sub to see if that yields any improvement? | |
| Question about a set up Are you planning on eventually building a home theater or just 2-channel stereo w/ a subwoofer? I’d suggest these components that are priced similarly and IMHO you’ll get much better overall performance… https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-sto... |