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| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance But to convince me that there's any proportionate value of cables at the most expensive levels vs. a lot of electronics and speakers at the medium levels of price points is a tall order indeed. But that’s not what he’s saying here. In fact, th... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Before this well-intentioned post goes off the rails, let’s just take the positive thoughts for what they are. Someone found relatively little-known cables to sound much better for them in their system than much pricier cables from more well-known... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @jeffseight Why is it we have to provide scientific evidence to support our opinions but you do not? Where’s your scientific evidence to support Apple and Spotify sound better than Qobuz, cause I ain’t never seen anyone else on this site say that ... | |
| I have a feel good story.... From what I hear, Luke could learn a lot from his ex-wife when it comes to customer service at VTL. Then again, maybe that’s why she’s his ex-wife. | |
| Seeking Amp / Preamp Upgrades This is a bit of a different option, but you could buy a used McCormack DNA-1 amp for $1200 or less and have Steve McCormack do his full upgrades and be around $4k and a SOTA amp (he’s got my 0.5 RevA in for full mods now). Add a Linear Tube Audio... | |
| Seeking Amp / Preamp Upgrades What’s your budget? | |
| Help me choose speakers I’d get a pair of LSA-20 Signatures for $1699/pr. and a DSpeaker anti-mode 2.0 that can help deal with your room/placement issues. There’s one available here… https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisai689-dspeaker-anti-mode-2-0-dualcore-da-convert... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance My experience is similar to @charles1dad in that my Acoustic Zen and LavriCables as well as some VooDoo cables I demoed are detailed but also tonally full and natural sounding. I don’t think you can paint all silver cables with the same brush as ... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? If I had it to do over again, I’d buy used Acoustic Zen Silver Reference interconnects and Satori speaker cables (double barrel shotgun if you can bi-wire). Buying good, used cables is one of the best bargains you can get in audio because you can... | |
| Should I add a DDC? Looking for experienced advise please. I’ve never read anything but very positive reviews from people who switched to an I2S connection, so as soon as as budget allows I’m buying a Singxer SU-6 DDC. My Musician Pegasus DAC also has an I2S input and seems a shame to not use it. FWIW. | |
| cheapest cable upgrade ever Hey @antigrunge2 thanks for sharing! How many expensive tweaks get promoted here with dubious results? This one’s darn near free so if it helps at all it’s a huge return on investment. If not, take the battery off and use it somewhere else. I ... | |
| Home Theater Newbie Seeking Advice for Cornwall IV Setup This is a ridiculous quote IMHO. Your speakers are very efficient and need nowhere near 200Wpc, so you can save $$$ by not buying unnecessary power. Frankly, if I’m you I’d seriously consider buying an Anthem MRX540 A/V receiver that’ll sound gr... | |
| How to Add Remote Controlled Volume to Dac + Amp That Doesn't Support It Not sure how much you want to spend, but a used Bel Canto DAC would do very nicely and not take up much space. That’s what I’d do. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisai340-bel-canto-design-dac-3-24-192-d-a-converter-with-dac-3-7-digital-input... | |
| ATC SCM 40 question Are these new or the original version? I don’t think driving your amp with the RME DAC is doing you any favors here so you might entertain adding a good preamp, and it’d be good to know what cables/interconnects you’re using. Do you have a carpe... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? The best? Who knows as it’s very taste/system dependent, and then there’s budget that I don’t think you specified. Good news is pretty much all have generous trial periods, so read reviews and have at it! Cullen makes very good and reasonably-pric... |