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| Good music soundcard The most highly regarded sound cards in the under $200 price range would have to be the e-mu 0404 and the e-mu 1212. If you want to spend more than $200 I suggest a firewire or external DAC solution. Technically the e-mus are professional audio ca... | |
| Tube amp for Dynaudio Contour 2.8 speakers Seanstrong,If you don't like the traditional Krell / Pass / Levinson sort of high end solid state sound, but still need something that mates with inefficient speakers like the Dynaudios, you may want to try something like the Bel Canto Evo 2 line ... | |
| What speaker after Thiel 7.2? I wonder what it is about some companies (certainly including Thiel) that incites such a vitriolic set of responses from the usually more evenly stated (and more helpful) responses you usually see on these forums?I've only had experience with the ... | |
| Step up from $2000 rec. to dedicated pre-pro? I'm starting to see that even when used just as a pre-processor, the HT system will most likely be a compromise. I wasn't planning on using the amplification features of the receiver (except maybe for 1 channel) which is why I was mostly concerned... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 auditions out there? latest model I think people looking in the close to $1000 or even $2000 range should not be put off by some of these negative sounding comments regarding the Benchmark. Some glowing reviews including the one in Stereophile may make it sound like it is the best... | |
| Marantz 8260 vs benchmark DAC1 There's been a lot of buzz with the Benchmark DAC1, with a very glowing review in stereophile that compared it to ultra-high end stuff, also some of the headphone nuts over at head-fi have given it glowing reviews. I have no first hand experience ... | |
| Which speaker for Musical Fidelity a3.2 ? The Thiel Dealer I visited recently is also a Musical Fidelity dealer, although he was demoing the 1.6 with Rogue monoblocks, and they sounded fantastic in that setup, MILES above a B&W 603. The Thiel 2.4s are much more authoritative but in an... | |
| Do 1st Order XO's produce a smaller Someone mentioned 6moons reviewing the GMA's soon, but they already have a review of another 1st order design, the Gallo Reference III that is really quite a gushing review, even considering the normal gushy nature of speaker reviews. I guess it i... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used The problem with in-ear 'phone for me has always been the positioning or soundstaging. Even good in ears like the etymotics sound 'wrong' not because any part of the frequency range is off, but because the imaging is wrong. All headphones sound li... | |
| Monitor Audio GR60 vs B&W "There *is* a schoolof thought which holds that the GR10's are overkill for rear surrounds"Well, yes, perhaps if you plan on mostly / only listening to home theater or 2 channel stereo on your setup. If you plan on multi-channel SACD / DVD-Audio l... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used I would definitely not recommend the EX71SL. I bought these headphones and I found them very muddied. The midrange is completely butchered. The bass is satisfying once you get a seal but the sound is just... horrible. What a waste of $50.The etymo... | |
| Is this rude? I definitely agree with the people who have suggested that you just tell the dealer what your budget is, what speakers you're looking at, and ask them if they know of customers selling them or if they have a demo. Ask if the have a pre-configured ... | |
| Experiences with SlimDevices Squeezebox. "Jitter" as a concept does not apply to digital bitstream read from a hard disk file. It was something that applied to Audio CDs but once you rip the file to a wav or FLAC it's "frozen in time." Every time you play it back in a pure digital passth... | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Just a note, USB 1.1 doesn't have the bandwidth to play more than 2 channels at 24bit/96khz. Companies are slowly coming out with USB2 and firewire devices that can play multi-channel audio at this resolution, but the original USB, a.k.a. USB 1/1.... |