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| Vote for best speaker value under 5K$ My current speakers are the best under 5K speakers in my system. Odyssey Kismet Reference speakers. | |
| Help with Modified Audible Illusions Modulus 3 For one thing, all the caps have been changed. Does it work ok? You can send it to Audible Illusions in Florida to have brought back to factory spec. Whoever updated it did a pretty crappy job. | |
| Esoteric owners - SA-50 to ? I believe that all Esoteric players use discrete output, no op amps. | |
| What do I need? FYI, The Emotiva XDA 1 DAC is a very good dac. I had one for 6 months and loved it. When I replaced it with a Wyred DAC 1, I found very little improvement. Certainly not 800.00 worth of better sound. | |
| B&W HTM4S IN CHERRY Grow a set of balls and keep the cherry one. | |
| ZYX Airy 3 Best SUT I am using a Denon AU320 SUT with my Audible Illusions Modulus 3B preamp. I am running a ZU/Denon Dl 103 with .3mv output. The sound is excellent. | |
| Wadia 121 John,Very well thanks. Still have to get down to you to have the mc preamp swapped. I don't like using the Denon SUT when I know there is a good mc preamp in my other unit. | |
| Wadia 121 Nothing burns me more than when an unfinished product is put out to the public. A new, just released dac shouldn't need new firmware or new parts to make it work the way it should, Simply no excuse for this. | |
| Esoteric owners - SA-50 to ? "The newer Esoteric players sound way better, they are much more musical and way more involving."I don't know what to say about that. I just bought an Esoteric UX-3 (ehibitor unit) player and I truly love it. It's the best digital in my home. I li... | |
| Audible Illusions vs CJ preamps: sonic difference? They will burn through tubes which are NOT recommended for them. For 240.00, you can buy 4 matched, very low noise tubes from Audible Illusions. I have also had good luck at The Tube Store. I bought 6h23neb tubes, graded and matched for less than ... | |
| Audible Illusions vs CJ preamps: sonic difference? Older versions can't be upgraded but AI gives a VERY generous trade in allowance towards a new 3B. | |
| Audible Illusions vs CJ preamps: sonic difference? The current production model is the 3B. There have been 3 versions of the 3. The original 3 (1992-1996), the 3A(1996-2008) and the 3B (2008-present). | |
| Budget USB cable? I also prefer the Wireworld Starlight and use it in my system. | |
| Is good customer service about dead? Odyssey Audio goes out of their way for complete customer satisfaction. Esoteric is also wonderful and Jack at SpearItSound went above and beyond for me twice. Also, Audible Illusions has come a very long way in providing great customer service Au... | |
| Decent preamp to match my modest system? Ts0711:I agree with you 100% regarding the AI mod 3. I have a Mod 3A with the John Curl MC phono preamp and it is superb. I recently bought the newer Mod 3B preamp and I am going to have the mc phono boards removed from my Mod 3A and installed in ... |