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| Acoustic Zen Silver Reference XLR interconnect vs AudioQuest Wind I haven’t heard the AQ but have extensive experience with the AZ Silver Ref and it is excellent IMHO. It’s nicely detailed but not bright sounding, and despite being silver it has very good tonality and musicality — organic and natural sounding i... | |
| What should be my next speaker - the never ending question There’s a nice pair of ATC SCM40 v2 on US Audio Mart for $5k that excel at dynamics and detail. Definitely give them a look. | |
| need a better sound source? I’m not sure, but I’d think there might be better sounding options than iTunes. But if your Dragonfly is lighting up green at least you know you’re getting full CD sampling rates. Sorry I can’t be more help with your specific question. I starte... | |
| Pandemic Audio Gear: Audiophile Solutions for COVID Lockdowns I’m considering a pair of Sennheiser PXC 550-ll headphones for my wife who’s working from home for the foreseeable future and can’t deal with earbuds for extended periods. Noise isolation and speech clarity — both coming and going — are most impo... | |
| How do you know if you are upgrading your DAC? You can try an Audio Mirror Tubadour SE Mklll in your system and send it back if it’s not an improvement. My bet is the 205 will be sent to the trash instead. | |
| Buying a DAC when you can't try it first I'm planning an upgrade path and leaning toward getting a DAC like the SMSL SU-9 or Cambridge DACMagic Plus and running the CCA optical through the new DAC.No. Just no. You have a $5000 tube amp. Time to put the $50 CCA and the $550 CD player n... | |
| Hi end tube preamps, it’s all about functionality!! Warning — we’re dealing with about 258MB of RAM here. Might be kenjit’s roommate. Participate at your own risk. Peace out. | |
| What should be my next speaker - the never ending question What would you like to improve upon over what you have now, and what aspects of sound reproduction and speaker performance are most important to you? | |
| Class A or AB Solid State Integrated Amp for Spendor D9's - Coming from Tubes I think you’ve got a pretty damn fine list and not sure you could go wrong with any of them. I’d only add to the confusion and suggest putting Vitus on your list as well. Or maybe a hybrid like Unison Research Unico where tubes only in the input... | |
| need a better sound source? I think you might be pretty happy with the Dragonfly into the Cavalli, which sounds like you haven’t heard yet unless I’m reading this wrong? | |
| So you have a great hi end stereo preamp, but I figured it out. OP is really Dory from Finding Nemo. Ugh. | |
| Streamers sans DAC? Innuos Zen. Lumin. | |
| XLR balanced cables, best bang for t ht e buck? Audio Envy or used Acoustic Zen Silver Reference. | |
| Any high end preamps out there where tubes off while HT in use? Not sure, but I think Rogue, Backert, and maybe VAC might have that feature. | |
| need a better sound source? The Dragonfly is ok — I use a Dragonfly Red, but with your amp and ‘phones you will be rewarded by investing in a better DAC. If you give us your budget and share what sonic properties are most important to you I’m sure you’ll get some excellent ... |