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| Balanced wiring for Sennhesier 800 S You can try LavriCables as I think I’ve read they can do custom cables so worth a shot just to see. | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? I don’t need unlimited access to all music. @condosound Yes you do, you just don’t know it yet. Once you get to explore limitless amounts of awesome new music (and much of it in hi res BTW), playing familiar stuff over and over again becomes a... | |
| Krell Moves to new location It’s a master class in exactly how not to handle a corporate crisis situation. | |
| Room setting: new amp or new speakers? If I upgrade the amp first, I might squeeze more out of my current speakers - which are not as bad —but will their awkward placement limit the improvement? I reviewed Venere 2.5 and you should upgrade your speakers and do that first and then... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre Yeah, I got to hear an Electocompaniet amp and I can definitely understand why you’d like their amps given your sonic goals. | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? I have a friend who told me the same thing cd sounds better than streaming. I ask him why ? He said too much upsampling on the streaming because of that the music no longer sound natural. I don’t know if this true? @jayctoy That’s just bogus a... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre Congrats on your awesome new speakers! I sold ATC speakers for a bit, and if it was me I’d get a Class A amp from the likes of Boulder, Pass, etc. and pair it with a tube pre that would be the Spatial Audio Raven, but the Aric Audio Motherload XL... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? However, I still find CD’s to have a bit more depth, detail, and just a tiny bit extra level of air @kingbr If you add an Iris or Hermes DDC before your Pontus and take advantage of the i2S connection it will up your streaming performance sign... | |
| Anything that sounds similar to the Dynaudio Confidence series? The Joseph Audio Prism is around $3600 and offers a good amount of the performance of the $10k Pulsar and would be well worth considering. The Revival Atalante 3, Fritz Carbon 7, and Reference 3a MM DeCapo Be are also excellent and worth explorin... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? It’s not practical to spend more money to buy streamer and pay monthly subscriptions. @jayctoy For the price of about one CD per month I have access to hundreds of thousands of songs via Qobuz — many of them in hi res BTW — and discover aweso... | |
| Balanced wiring for Sennhesier 800 S I and several others here have bought LavriCables headphone cables and have been very impressed with their performance, build quality, and value. Here are the cables they make for your ‘phones… https://www.lavricables.com/cables/master-silver-se... | |
| Experience up-leveling streaming with USB cables? I've read that 1.5M is the ideal length for a USB cable used for audio. @sls883 I’m not sure that’s the case with USB. That was once thought to be the case for SPDIF and AES/EBU digital cables but I’ve since read that as digital has evolved t... | |
| Hermes added, question Yeah, take the Symphony out and just let the excellent Hermes do its thing. Sometimes less is more. | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? Since I’ve gotten my streaming setup to sound as good or better than CDs the only time I bother to spin a CD is if it’s not available on Qobuz, which isn’t very often. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Well, you might really enjoy a hybrid integrated that used tubes in the preamp section but solid state amplification so you get the best of both worlds and the tubes last a long time and are relatively cheap — best of both worlds. Here are a coupl... |