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| Recommendations please! What improvements would you like to have over the AI (besides a remote), and what performance characteristics are most important to you? Also, you’re greatly limiting your choices by requiring an truly good onboard phono stage, so unless you’re e... | |
| B&W 705 Signature Feedback ? No, because it doesn’t employ JA’s Infinite Slope patented crossover that is so instrumental to their sound. That said, Usher pretty much matches JA speakers IME (albeit via different means) and offers extremely high value, look great, and they ev... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? Uh oh. | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? @baylinor Thanks a lot for the tip of uninstalling the app to get it to recognize the streamer again. I didn’t think of that, and all the suggestions I got involved rebooting everything starting with the router, but I’m traveling so that’s not an... | |
| Opinions before purchasing Don’t listen to the anti-sub club. The room size matters not — it’s all in how you set up the sub. A good sub makes all the difference in any room. Once you’ve got it dialed in you won’t want to listen without it. | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive I’ll say I’ve rarely seen such consistently glowing reviews from both customers and reviewers of a tweak product as I see with Townshend Podium, Platform, etc. One of the few products I’d buy with confidence that it’d make a significant positive ... | |
| Speakers To Replace Castle Edens If you haven’t been to Goodwins High End in Waltham you should go listen to some DeVore speakers. I think you might really dig their new O Baby speaker, but at $5700 they’re probably out of your price range but still really worth a listen. Here’s ... | |
| Looking at a used Nuprime IDA- 8 integrated. I think that’d be hard to beat for the price if buying new. The Bel Canto C6i is probably a big step up in performance but at almost $2800 it’s way up in price too. One other alternative would be to pick up a used Bel Canto C5i (the prior model) i... | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive Be aware that VTL’s customer service is legendary for being awful. Personally I’d never support a company that doesn’t support me, especially when there are so many other excellent alternatives. Just fyi and FWIW. | |
| Focal Clear Headphone Cable Problem I highly recommend taking a look at LavriCable as they make high quality cables at very reasonable prices and fly below the radar. I got an excellent 1.2m balanced cable with silver wire and top connector/plugs for only $253 for my Hifiman Arya S... | |
| Amps for B&W 805 Diamond: Rogue Audio or Krell, Pass labs, ML, Accuphase I completely defer to @audphile1 as nothing beats actual personal experience, and I stand corrected. | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive Agree with VTPH recommendation, and I’ll throw in the Manley Steelhead as another good one to look at as well as Pass Labs if you don’t want tubes. But the one that really intrigues me is the Allnic H5500. Here’s a review from PTA, and the reviewe... | |
| Opinions before purchasing In a room that size definitely go with monitors and a sub as it’ll be much easier to manage the bass and you’ll get bass down to a true 20Hz that you won’t get with floorstanders. I've been happy with the soun bar for years and I tend to not ... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? Ok, I’ll start with a bittersweet post. I recently bought an iFi Zen Steam (with iPowerX filter/power supply) to replace streaming from my iPad via a LavriCable adapter (big upgrade over the Apple Camera Adapter BTW) as per the suggestion of seve... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement The idea that a good recording is supposed to simulate a live performance is simply false for the vast majority of recordings. Big +1. Listen to Donald Fagan’s Kamakiriad or Morph the Cat — they were clearly recorded in a studio with absolutely... |