thaluza
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| Objective Review of the ModWright Pioneer LX800 Yeah, I saw that. I was just wondering if the reviewer's impressions of the stock unit were similar to yours. Anyways, having experienced (and liked) a dac in my system that has the newest generation ESS Sabre dac chip, I am curious about Pioneer'... | |
| Objective Review of the ModWright Pioneer LX800 Also, the guy who did your review did not mention what tubes are in your Modwright unit, unless I missed it. Perhaps the choice of tubes makes a difference? I had an Allnic phono stage with a tubed power supply and thought the sound got even bette... | |
| Objective Review of the ModWright Pioneer LX800 Did you try the LX800 before sending it to Modwright? If yes, what did you think of it? There’s been some positive user impressions of the stock LX500 and it seems the stock LX800 should be even better. | |
| Objective Review of the ModWright Pioneer LX800 Thanks. That’s an eye opener and food for thought. Hoping some Modwright owners, or at least some owners of gear with tubed power supplies, will chime in to give their perspective. I owned a MW Oppo 83 and still have a Pioneer BD player that was t... | |
| MORE Esoteric problems To follow up, I had to have the laser assembly replaced and TAP repaired my UX-3pi at a very reasonable cost. When I picked up my UX-3pi, I did ask about repairing other models in house. They said only the "pi" models can be repaired at their faci... | |
| MORE Esoteric problems I can confirm that TAP can replace a laser assembly of an Esoteric UX3-pi in house. I was told that there would be no shipping of anything to Japan if it turns out I need a new transport. I was just there today. They have a nice facility. They in... | |
| Where are Conicident Speaker Technology electronics made ? When I had the input jacks of my Frankensteins changed, the technician commented, without any prompting from me, that he was impressed with the build quality and that there wasn't much to improve upon the design, except for maybe he would go with ... | |
| Best Values In Speakers To Pair With Coincident Frankenstein MKII Monoblocks? I am an owner of the Frankensteins. I use and love a pair of Von Schweikert db99 speakers, but those are only available used and rarely come up for sale. I tried Coincident Victory II speakers, which Arthur Salvatore praised, but found that the re... | |
| which car is sitting in your listening room? This thread made me think of how important reliability is in an audio system and with cars, and what the cost of repair would be. I don't think I would ever buy a really expensive piece of audio gear or a car without having a good idea of it's rel... | |
| which car is sitting in your listening room? What I eventually would want:I’m totally happy with what I have now. I have a Camry and appreciate its reliablity. It is problem-free. I have friends with BMW’s and I appreciate the way they perform. So I guess you could say my system is a blend o... | |
| which car is sitting in your listening room? What I actually paid for everything in my system: 2019 Toyota Camry, fully loadedIf I had paid full msrp for my system: 2019 BMW 330i with option 1This really puts my spending in perspective, thanks! I have been into this hobby for around 20 years... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? Nice review. I used to have a Cortese and would consider purchasing another in the future. Agree that Mick is great to deal with. Hard to beat the Cortese if you want a great sounding preamp with a built-in phono stage. I'm intrigued by the new LC... | |
| Do you have a defining musical moment from your early years? When I was 5 years old my father had a party for his friends in his squadron. One of them left behind the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour LP. A few days later, he and 30 others were killed in action when their plane was shot down by a North Korean MI... | |
| Affordable alternativ to the PS Audio DirectStream DAC I owned the DirectStream DAC, Border Patrol DAC SE, and Benchmark DAC3L at the same time, so was able to compare them. The latter two dacs cost much less and can be combined with a separate streaming source and still cost much less than the Direct... | |
| Laufer Teknik Memory Player and Mini Thank you Uberwaltz for responding. Thing is, all was well when I was using JRiver with my Mac Mini and AIFF files. There's something about how JRiver is dealing with my WAVE64 files. Granted, WAVE64 is somewhat of a novelty for file playback, but... |