soix
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| Bricasti M3 vs. Holo Audio May vs. PS Audio DS What sound characteristics are most important to you? Lots of excellent DACs out there these days. | |
| Recommendation: Complete my studio monitor system with a center channel Agree a single HS8 would be your best option. | |
| Wanting to narrow the field for compatible speakers What improvements/changes are you looking for? New or used? | |
| How do you know if you need to add a sub (without auditioning one, I mean)? So what does anyone think of the idea of using a Loki as a very inexpensive experiment to see if more bass even suits me. I know it won’t be the lower register bass and there are plenty of other differences between this and a sub.Think you just an... | |
| How do you know if you need to add a sub (without auditioning one, I mean)? I just wonder if it would sound even better with a sub. My experience, once you listen with a properly set-up sub(s) you won’t want to listen without it anymore. Along with losing the lower foundation of the music the soundstage utterly collapses... | |
| Best of... Soundbar for Samsung TV The Yamaha YAS-109 gets good reviews and can be had at accessoriesforless.com for only $130, and if you can stretch to $250 it includes a subwoofer that’d probably up your enjoyment factor a bit if you don’t already have a sub. Best of luck. | |
| HT Bypass Are you running the cable’s coax directly into the Xfinity box or into the HTPS 7000 first? | |
| Attempting to configure 5.1 with current gear and new Anthem unit- Unless the Anthem is not working properly, this should be no problem for any “tech” person to figure out. It’s just not that hard. Call Anthem — they should be willing/able to help. | |
| Speaker cables under 1k used There’s a used 8’ pair of Acoustic Zen Hologram ll here for $650 or on US AudioMart for $575 and some Satori here as well. Any of those should be great for what you’re looking for, but if not there’s a liquid AZ used market so you can just turn a... | |
| Dumb question HT bypass Ah, forgot you don’t have pre outs on your AVR. So, are you routing your stereo preamp line outs into your AVR? | |
| Recommendations for a new Basement home theater. Just run an Ethernet cable from the router to the basement, no other amps necessary. I’d recommend reading Earl Geddes “Premium Home Theater” (available online only) before doing any construction. For power conditioner I recommend something with... | |
| Streamer upgrade I’d consider an Innuos Zen Mk3. It’s an excellent streamer, but it’s also got its own CD drive and internal storage so you can load all your discs into it, ditch the transport altogether, and have access to all your music in any order or playlist... | |
| Please suggest a CD/streaming device for ~$2000 You could get an Innuos Zen Mini with the upgraded power supply (highly recommended). It’s got its own drive and internal storage so you can load all your CDs into it, an internal DAC, and it also streams. When funds allow you can buy a better D... | |
| Vimberg Mino D - first impressions @xagwell — check out the Joseph Audio Perspective 2 if you can. | |
| Dumb question HT bypass Just to state the semi obvious, you don’t actually need an HT bypass as any line or tape input on the stereo preamp will work. The main benefit of this is that it opens up tons more stereo pre options. The bad news is you need to manually adjust... |