soix
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| Emotiva Xpa 2 Gen 3 power amp There’s a nice McCormack DNA 0.5 with Gold revisions available on Audio Asylum for about the same price that doubles down to 200Wpc at 4Ohms (both channels driven), which is plenty for most speakers, and will make the Emotiva sound like a cheap to... | |
| Looking for an integrated amp around 4000 to 5000. Klh007 just ready for a change. Part of the audiophile phobia.If you can’t elaborate any more than that about what improvements you’re looking for or what you value most in sound reproduction, this will just be a random crapshoot. If that’s all y... | |
| Suggestions to match a pair of speakers to Pass Labs XA25? +1 Spatial Audio M3 Sapphire or LSA-20 if you’re buying new. If you’re open to used, both the Joseph Audio Perspective and Nola KO2 (both $12k+ MSRP) are available now right around $6k and image/soundstage like crazy. The T6 is a nice speaker, b... | |
| Upgrading from Sonus Farmer Venere 3.0 For the type of music you listen to and the volume at which you listen, I’d choose the ATC SCM40 v2 hands down. Usually $7k new, Music Direct has an open box pair for $5295 that’d be well worth considering. I had the Venere 2.5 in my system on dem... | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? To me, speaker designers are like chefs. Optimally they pick the best ingredients and know how to combine and prepare them such that the dish is appealing to the customer. On the margin I think the chef supersedes the ingredients. For an audio ... | |
| 3.1 or 2.1 Home Theater setup for desktop Forget tubes at this price level and forego the center speaker, which will allow you to use a stereo amp and put more $ toward better L/R speakers. Plus, listening in the nearfield you’ll unlikely need a center speaker anyway. I’d get a PS Audio S... | |
| Welcome to Headphones Ah. Thanks @arafiq. Did not know that. | |
| Tube DAC ? What streamer/DAC are you using? It would help greatly if you’d share what you’d like to see in terms of improvements and what you value most in sound reproduction. | |
| headphones to use with a Chord Mojo Maybe have a look at the 1More Triple Driver Over Ear ‘phones. Not sure how they’d pair with your Mojo, but sounds like they may offer more detail than your Senns from the mids on up. Best of luck. | |
| Your Pick Between These Two... I got to hear my music on both the Q7s and the Perspectives in different systems. Obviously the Q7s are much more speaker and I respected them a lot for what they could do, but I loved the sound and expressiveness of the Perspectives more. For m... | |
| Very small room! Help me with monitor speakers I’d vote for the LSA-10s for two reasons - I read they targeted the JA Pulsars as their sonic bogey, and they’re extremely easy to drive so should pair well with your amp and sound good at lower volumes. Best of luck. | |
| Center speaker placement? Mounting the center above the TV could probably work with adjusting the delay, but I’d think optimally you’d need to angle it downward so the tweeter fires more toward your ears. Aesthetically (or sonically) that may not be the most elegant solut... | |
| Welcome to Headphones Boy, this discussion group is seeing some action lately! (Not!)I’d think this could be a very popular group as ‘phones have become ubiquitous in society and popular among audiophiles as well, but it’s buried down toward the bottom of the “topics” ... | |
| Adding a tube DAC to my BLUESOUND VAULT I think you may need to up your budget to the $1000 or so level and look for a used MHDT Orchid or Audio Mirror Tubadour. You might also consider a solid state R2R NOS DAC that tend to have a more “analog” type sound, but those too will be tough ... | |
| Best DAC for SONY SCD XA5400es What aspects of sound and DAC performance are most important to you, and what would you like in terms of improvements? |