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| Which Solid State amplifier would you recommend for my budget? Here’s a nice Bryston 4B SST2 available listed at $3250 but should be negotiable down to $3000… https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649918651-bryston-4b-sst2/ | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k I think you’d be hard pressed to get a better tube amp in your price range than this VAC Phi 200 that delivers 100Wpc. https://tmraudio.com/components/power-amplifiers/vac-phi-200-stereo-tube-power-amplifier-200-silver/ Heres a review fyi… https... | |
| Which Solid State amplifier would you recommend for my budget? +1 @ghdprentice What sound characteristics are most important to you and what specific improvements are you looking for over what you have now? | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? @zlone If you wanna stop messing around with entry-level cables, buy these Acoustic Zen Satori cables at a great price and go to the next level. If they don’t work out just turn around and sell them at little/no loss as there’s a fluid market for... | |
| GaN guitar amps? @designsfx You bring up a good point. Not sure if a GaN amp could be programmed to mimic the desirable distortion of an overdriven tube amp. But, might not be impossible either. Most guitar players I’ve played with are incessantly fiddling with th... | |
| Eeny, meeny, miny, moe... I wish we could have a collections of wives to do the same. | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable And that's my point. No matter which music streaming service you're using, no matter where in the cloud (or rather which hosting services are used), there's a shit-ton of networking and thousands of miles cabling, both copper and fiber involved, ... | |
| Gershman Grande Avant Garde I just heard the Gershman GAG speakers at the NYC show and definitely in my top 3 of sounds I heard at the show. These are quintessential “fly under the radar” speakers that are a must listen along with Verity Audio and Usher speakers. At this p... | |
| How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? Don’t get me wrong - I prefer analog. But there’s nothing to be gained by pretending it’s better than it is, or that digital is worse than it is. @cleeds Very wise words. And I’m encouraged by members here who have many more $$$ than I invested... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender @designsfx Get out!!! 15 min outside the second-largest city in the US and you can’t get 1-Gig speed??? That’s just astounding. I’m 20 min outside NYC and have several providers for 1-Gig service. What up with that? Somebody’s seriously failing yo... | |
| Monitors for 14 x 20 Room If you’re in the northeast or mid-Atlantic area pick these up. They’re floorstanders but very slim and take up no more space than monitors when all is said and done, and no need to purchase stands. Not only will these work for your current needs... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender @designsfx Thanks for the good info, and Ouchee on your internet speed! That’s awful, and frankly I’m surprised you can even stream hi-res music without dropouts but glad it works for you. Where are you BTW — northern Alaska??? | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- I know nothing of your actual experience. @noske That’s correct, you don’t. Yet you still write this presupposing my reviews were influenced to be positive… Never constrained from saying anything negative. No, a better way of saying it is th... | |
| How To Connect a DAC? I’d be surprised if you didn’t hear an improvement with either the Pontus ll or Gustard (BTW you can read very good, in-depth reviews of both at soundnews.net to help make a decision). Another good option and a bit cheaper is the Musician Pegasus... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender @jetter I’m not experiencing dropouts. In a perfect world I’d like to run an Ethernet cable from my router to my streamer, but that’s just not doable so I’ve heard people say running an Ethernet cable from an extender sounds much better than just ... |