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| Do Costly XLR Cables Make A Difference? If the signal path fully balanced through all of your components that kind of cable upgrade probably makes sense. | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? If your system decent enough, you even will hear improvement from cleaning terminals of your speaker cables not only from upgrading them. | |
| Turntable question; Does Audio Technica make any good turntables? In my opinion price range of $500-$1000 would be entry level TT price and brand choice shouldn’t be main criteria to look at. If you really tight on your budget range, my suggestion is to concentrate on proper TT setup, arm and cart alignments. Re... | |
| Do I need a streamer? Dedicated streamer is about Audio only however computer has lot more different tasks purposes and to perform those tasks computer has lots of extra circuits with negative ER influence on each other so Audio outcome suffering at the end. | |
| Aurender N20 Streamer & Holo May DAC vs Analog It’s worth to develop and upgrade both sources. I have to admit that some albums are sounds much, much better from analog branch of my system, however some other albums are amazingly better from two of my digital branches. Depends on lots of fact... | |
| Streamer/DAC - Where is the value? Definitely try to go separates road. Besides better SQ it will give you more flexibility in the future. Consider Qobuz, cause Tidal with their MQA kind a limits you to MQA enabled DACs (only if highest res of Tidal important for you). Your budget ... | |
| Pass Then vs. Pass Now Coda S5.5 could be strong alternative in class A contenders. Threshold is gone, and while Nelson Pass, founder of Threshold, has been producing amplifiers under his own name for some years now, other former Threshold employees are also designing a... | |
| What cables to use. Optical cable will outperform hdmi in long distance application. I have 30ft long hdmi cable connecting my main TV with smaller TV in my tool room in my basement and the quality is pretty low. When I tried 5ft hdmi connection just to check differe... | |
| CD player suggestions... Cambridge Audio CXU is strong contender in your price range, if you can find one. Plays lots of disc types including SACD, equipped with digital outputs in case you want to use it with outboard DAC and pure audio mode which disables all circuits o... | |
| Luxman Knockoffs or Counterfeits? We all should be careful with stuff common in other countries but in US not only if we buying from abroad. I remember the story of one guy who bought 30K Burmester amp with appears to be switched EU market 220V OEM transformer to non OEM chip US v... | |
| Can someone help me pick out my first speakers? Pioneer Andrew Jones Designed speakers is strong contender for your price range. | |
| Ali Baba Reaserch where is original cable manufactured or parts sourced. China, the fake manufacturer may be OEM . Use prudence to decide. The Absolute Reference Audio Labs (Tara Labs) is Australia borne company moved to US about thirty years ago and al... | |
| Ali Baba Not only counterfeit. It also could be hazardous due to toxic materials. Before you bring it home all that staff has to be checked for polluting elements like mercury, lead, cadmium etc. | |
| Direct Drive I don’t have anything against Technics or DD. Both, the brand and technology is great and have their pluses, but I like the BD better. According to Mechanic rules (mechanic as part of physics) it is much harder to maintain balance and isolation of... | |
| A comparable phono preamp +1 for Rogue Ares. Very flexible due to wide scale of gain adjustments and tube rolling friendly. Outboard linear PS. If you lucky enough you could get upgraded Magnum version of Ares for around $1500 used. |