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| Best Used Speaker Under $4,000 w/ Respectable Lows I would look for a pair of first generation Joseph Audio Perspectives. May be a bit more than your budget but well worth it and resale is great. | |
| Tube preamp match with Solid Stare amp I might add a used Cary SLP 05. Cary offers upgrade is not current model. I use one with AGD Audions and really like the combination. | |
| GaN Class D amps are already outdated, it's time for GaN on Diamond! Guys it’s been around for years. Checkout WolfSpeed / Cree. | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? If using Roon (highly recommended) get a dedicated music server and for me it can down to interconnects and power cords. I went for a combined steamer DAC and solved all my streaming interupts and connection problems. | |
| Tube preamp for pass labs ? Don’t have experience with Pass but have been very happy with Cary SLP05. BAT and AR are also great. I don’t think you can wrong with any of these. I went with Cary because of 6N’s and tube regulated power supply. | |
| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! Pioneer Surround Sound System Cerwin Vega ? Epicure 20+ Spica TC50 Proac Responce 1.5 Revel F50A Ariel 5T Audio Physic Avanti Joesph Audio Perspectives | |
| Music server vs. external hard drive to DAC There are 3 components to consider: Music Server feeding a streamer feeding a DAC. All three can be separate or combined into one, two, or three boxes. Music Server - manages music collection (if copied to a drive), supports your meta data dat... | |
| buying (NOS) tubes online I buy from Brent Jesse as well. | |
| "I'm a believer" I’m a believer in start with speakers and move backwards when upgrading. I currently own a pair of Joseph Audio Perspectives. After buying the speakers I’ve been through 4 DACs, 3 Amps, 2 Pre Amps and with every upgrade I came away thing wow the... | |
| After 50 years, I have finally found my destination amps... AGD Audions! Send a question / message on their web site. Alberto will respond very quickly. | |
| Tune of the Day Pure yourself a glass of wine and listen to Moon River by Jacintha. Great recording to check out how your system really sounds! | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! I pretty happy with my Joseph Audio Perspectives. | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER Preamp. I tried direct with PS Audio, Bricasti M3 (loved the volume control) and a few others. Currently running a Bricasti M1 SII through a Cary SLP-05 and love it. Tried direct and as good as the Bricasti is adding the Cary back into the path ... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing I would consider a used Bricasti M3 w/ streamer card. | |
| New computer for Streaming???? I don’t think it really matters unless you use Roon. I moved to Roon for ease of use and ability to seamlessly integrate my music collection with Qobuz and the ability to identify and direct music to multiple systems around my home. In my case I ... |