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| Best Values In Speakers To Pair With Coincident Frankenstein MKII Monoblocks? Try to find a pair of Coincident Total Eclipse speakers. They are tough to find and tough to beat for low power amplifiers. | |
| Turntable Advice? Turntables are very basic and easy to fix. SOTA has excellent customer service and sells parts for their legacy tables. | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? Any component that is technology based like a DAC, music streamers, DSP etc. As new technology is released, the older tech gets devalued. | |
| can you add tone controls to a primaluna HP integrated amp Unfortunately you bought the wrong amplifier. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Typically more expensive per watt of power, higher energy consumption, hot running and requires adequate ventilation, can require more maintenance due to the internal heat build up. Class A amps tend to be big and bulky.As for the difference in s... | |
| Anyone here with Magico A3 driven by Bel Canto Ref600's? To answer your direct question, yes the REF600 will drive the Magico A3, but I agree with Audio Troy's assessment regarding the dry sounding nature of the REF600 which may become more evident with the hyper detailed Magico. | |
| Balanced Tube Preamp Recommendations for $2000 It will be tough to find a true differential balanced tube preamp for $2,000 used. | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? Aren't Sophia tubes just rebranded TJ Full Music tubes in which Sophia claims to cherry pick the best for the US market? | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Any manufacture or dealer that offers a 90-day no questions asked return policy is okay in my books. Why trust the marketing spiel when you can try it yourself. | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble @testpilot wrote...Perhaps one of the upstream components inverted phase. @kenjit wrote...does not matter where the phase was inverted. It should be immediately obvious unless you have bad hearing or it was deliberate. Sure it does. A lot of ... | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble @kenjit wrote.... I recently went to an ultra high end store for a demo. It was by apointment so everything had been set up prior to my arrival by the store manager. In other words he must have surely sat down and checked the sound even if bri... | |
| SWARM / Multi subwoofer questions Contact Duke at audiokinesis@yahoo.com. He knows more about multiple sub woofers implementations than most. In fact, he markets a 4-sub system called the SWARM. | |
| Best speakers for a Pass XA 30.5 How would the Pass 30.5 behave into a 14ohm load speaker? | |
| Apogee Scintilla Power Jason Bloom often demoed the Scintilla with either a pair of mono Classe DR-3's or a stereo Classe DR-3VHC | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. IME, R2R is the best sounding format, but the price of entry has become prohibitive for most as software cost, maintenance, and access to quality machines have skyrocketed over years. IMHO R2R is dead to the average consumer but it has nothing to... |