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| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? My biggest mistake was to buy to IsoAcoustics Gaia I with 220 lb limit. Although provided with a kit of different mounts, non was oassing to my speakers. On top a month later I got an attractive offer and upgraded my speakers to new ones with 400+... | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? Aqua La Voce - a bit above your budget, but worth considering. Beautiful analogue sound made in Italy :) | |
| Who, do you think, designs the best looking tube-based devices? Aries cerat, by far | |
| Why perfect speakers dont exist the truth revealed Luckily, nowadays there are some effective treatments for such conditions. | |
| Looking at Focal Agree with the above. You better try get Sopra 3, otherwise go for Magico. | |
| A warm DAC? I would highly recommend Aqua Voce. I had similar objective to smoothen a bit my Magico S5 and this DAC did a brilliant job. | |
| Focal Kanta No 2 It will be for sure a great update. As a previous owner of couple of Focal speakers, including Mezzo Utopia, I would say you should consider Naim amplification to get the best out of these nice speakers. | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science I am not sure what kind of science and measurements Bose are using to build their speakers, but I find most of them absolutely amazing in terms of size/price/sound ratio.I have a Bose SoundTouch 30 in my second living room and it is not less enjoy... | |
| Lamm pre amp P.S. the upgrade to the AC Incito S is already inevitable for me :) | |
| Lamm pre amp Since two years i am using the Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe and I like its sound a lot. Also to have two outputs is very convenient as I am using the second one for my subs. However the lack of remote is not adding convenience and over the time it started t... | |
| Magico vs the world P.S. obviously I meant holographic images | |
| Magico vs the world What I can share from own experience is that with Magico there is certainly a magic sound I enjoyed a lot. I used to have until recently the S5 MK1 and I loved them. After many years of joy some time ago they replaced my beloved JM Lab Mezzo Utopi... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? I think we should distinguish major gains from incremental gains. I do believe speakers change have usually the potential for a major gain. Nevertheless it is waste of money if one does not upgrade the rest of electronics. For me this was very evi... | |
| The Modern DAC killed High Resolution Music - has Stereophile proven it? Hi @millercarbon, although I usually appreciate your posts as very informative, in this particular one you are not correct. Delta means difference, so @erik_squires statement makes perfect sense. Let’s just enjoy or hobby :) | |
| Power amplifiers with selector Class of operation? My MSB M 204 mono blocks have also the bias switch. Never used :) |