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| Lavri Cables @devilboy TWL is great stuff and not surprised you’re really happy. I’ve since received my other Lavry cables and am likewise very happy with the improvements over stock cables as well as with their look and build quality. Despite being silver the... | |
| Magico A5 or KEF blade 2? What sound characteristics are most important to you? | |
| Most effective way to add room correction? Maybe DSpeaker... http://www.dspeaker.com/en/products/20-dual-core.shtml | |
| DAC? how much more $$$ to get a significant improvement over Bluesound Node? I’d think even something like a Gustard X16 at $499 would be a significant upgrade, but you can certainly find further improvements from there depending on what characteristics you’re looking for. | |
| Tidal holiday trial offer Not interested! I wouldn’t subscribe to Tidal again even at 2 bucks per month forever. User interface sucked, and the MQA BS is a total sham that limits your choice of DACs and hamstrings manufacturers to include it for no reason other than drivin... | |
| Need help understanding USB cables Yeah, I also read that a USB cable that separates the two signals is best, which makes sense. Some of them can be a bit pricey. Ultimately I went with the LavryCable Ultimate Silver Dual USB cable that seems well made and obviously uses silver, ... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Maybe Tidal entry-level monitors? | |
| CDP or Transport and DAC? Recomendations? Definitely a separate transport/DAC. I’d ditch the Node and replace it with an Innuos Zen Mk3 streamer/server that will sound much better and also let you load all your CDs into it so basically becomes your transport as well. Add a Musician Pega... | |
| Cambridge dac? I’d go with the Gustard X16 over the Cambridge. It also offers a remote if that matters — not sure if the 200M has one. Best of luck. | |
| DAC Upgrade Sell and get a Musician Pegasus. Schiit may be made here, but where do you think most of the components with which it’s made come from? It’s a global world, and while I like buying American as much as anyone, ya gotta ask yourself how “American”... | |
| HOW CRITICAL ARE JUMPER CABLES News Flash! EVERYTHING MATTERS!!! Even 6” of wire. I have shotgun bi-wire spade cables and I STILL use banana jumpers, and it’s one of the best tweaks I’ve found and won’t listen without the jumpers. It’s crazy at a certain level how EVERYTHING ma... | |
| Short list of musical subwoofers Used Vandersteen 2Wq, BUT I’d take two SVS SB1000 Pro subs over one of any of the others. Having two subs for music trumps quality in most cases IMHO. Best of luck. | |
| Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II vs. Absolute Copper IC's Looks like borrowing some Absolute Coppers from the Cable Co’s lending library will be my next step. Why do that? Just buy a used pair for about half price and if they don’t work out you can sell them easily for little/no loss as there’s a pret... | |
| speaker choice for new 20x30 audio room What sound and speaker characteristics are most important to you? | |
| Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II vs. Absolute Copper IC's I wouldn’t rush to judgement on the Silver Refs if you haven’t tried them with the Hegel yet. Not a big fan of the Matrix ll — doesn’t have the rich warmth and tone of the original Matrix, and the treble sounds more unrefined as well. If the Sil... |